Category: Africa and the rest of the world

In this file photo taken on September 10, 2001, the twin towers of World Trade Center burn after two planes crashed into each building in New York. – The remains of two more victims of 9/11 have been identified, thanks to advanced DNA technology, New York officials announced on September 8, 2021, just days before […]

Afghanistan universities which have resumed under Taliban rule, are seperating male and female students with a curtain down the middle of a classroom. Teachers and students at universities in Afghanistan’s largest cities; Kabul, Kandahar and Herat told Reuters that female students were being segregated in class, taught separately or restricted to certain parts of the […]

Lieutenant Colonel Mamady Doumbouya (C), head of the Army’s special forces and coup leader, waves to the crowd as he arrives at the Palace of the People in Conakry on September 6, 2021, ahead of a meeting with the Ministers of the Ex-President of Guinea, Alpha Conde. – Lieutenant Colonel Mamady Doumbouya, the leader of […]

The graft trial of South Africa’s Jacob Zuma, scheduled to resume this week, will be delayed by 10 days, prosecutors announced Tuesday, following the ex-president’s placement on medical parole. Zuma, 79, was granted medical parole on Sunday two months into a 15-month prison sentence for a corruption probe into his 2009-18 presidency. He was due […]

Guinean President Conde… arrested The Federal Government has condemned the coup d’etat that happened today in the Republic of Guinea, saying it violates ECOWAS Protocol on Democracy and Good Governance. Army putschists in Guinea had on Sunday staged a coup and arrested President Conakry Alpha Conde. A video sighted by AFP showed some soldiers saying […]

President of Guinea Conakry Alpha Conde A screengrab taken from footage sent to AFP by a military source on September 5, 2021 shows the President of Guinea Conakry Alpha Conde after he was captured by army putschists during a coup d’etat in Conakry on September 5, 2021. Photo: AFP Army putschists in Guinea said on […]

U.S. President Joe Biden delivers remarks on the end of the war in Afghanistan in the State Dining Room at the White House on August 31, 2021 in Washington, DC. The last American military aircraft took off from Hamid Karzai Airport a few minutes before midnight in Kabul, marking the end of U.S. military presence […]

US soldiers stand on the tarmac as an US Air Force aircraft (L) prepares for take off from the airport in Kabul on August 30, 2021. – Rockets were fired at Kabul’s airport on August 30 where US troops were racing to complete their withdrawal from Afghanistan and evacuate allies under the threat of Islamic […]

Explosion rocks Kabul Airport Several US troops were killed in the bomb attack at Kabul airport Thursday, and more were wounded, the Pentagon said in a statement. “We can confirm that a number of US service members were killed in today’s complex attack on Kabul airport,” said spokesman John Kirby. “A number of others are […]

Britain will continue the operation to evacuate nationals and Afghans from Kabul despite Thursday’s “barbaric” bomb attack, Prime Minister Boris Johnson said. “We’ve been ready for it,” he said of the attack. “We’re going to continue with that operation, we’re now coming towards the very end of it in any event. “We’re going to work […]