Category: Africa and the rest of the world

A health worker checks the fever of travellers coming across South Sudan’s Nimule border town from Uganda on June 19, 2019, following recent deaths from Ebola in Uganda. – Uganda last week reported three cases of the haemorrhagic viral infection, two of them fatal, among people who had been to neighbouring Democratic Republic of Congo […]

Ethiopia’s Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed took to national television dressed in military fatigues and described the situation in Amhara as an attempted coup Ethiopian TV/AFP / HO Ethiopian police have shot dead a security chief suspected of orchestrating a deadly bid to overthrow the regional Amhara government, with possible links to the murder of the […]

Egypt’s first democratically elected President Mohamed Morsi was buried in Cairo on Tuesday, his lawyer said, a day after he collapsed in court and died. Rights groups called for an independent probe into the detention conditions and death of the Islamist, who was ousted in 2013 after a year of divisive rule. State TV said […]

Sara Netanyahu, wife of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, leaves the Magistrate’s Court in Jerusalem on June 16, 2019, following her conviction of fraudulently using state funds for meals AFP / Gali TIBBON An Israeli court on Sunday convicted the wife of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of fraudulently using state funds for meals, under a […]

US, Iran trade blames We do not want war in the region – Saudi Arabia JIJI PRESS/AFP/File / JIJI PRESSA file image shows the Kokuka Courageous, which was carrying highly flammable methanol out of the Gulf towards Asia when it was attacked Thursday Two damaged tankers arrived safely Sunday to locations off the Emirati coast […]

Tanzania’s health minister issued an Ebola ‘alert’ Sunday after the disease, which has killed over 1,400 people in the Democratic Republic of Congo, appeared in their shared neighbour, Uganda. “I want to alert the public that there is the threat of an Ebola epidemic in our country,” Ummy Mwalimu tweeted days after officials confirmed that […]

Peru’s former president, Alan García, has died after deliberately shooting himself in the head when police tried to arrest him in connection with a multi billion-dollar Latin American corruption scandal. “I am saddened by the death of former president Alan García,” tweeted the country’s current president, Martín Vizcarra, confirming the news. “I send my condolences to his […]

The death toll has risen to 15 following the collapse of two buildings in a part of Rio de Janeiro controlled by criminal gangs last week, broadcaster Globo reported on Tuesday. Rescuers found the latest four bodies overnight and on Tuesday morning, according to media reports. The residential buildings, which had been constructed without the […]

After Sudan’s army removed Omar al-Bashir from power on Thursday, here are some other cases where world leaders have fallen after the military sided with popular protests. – Algeria: Abdelaziz Bouteflika – In power for two decades, Algeria’s ailing 82-year-old Abdelaziz Bouteflika resigned on April 2 after the army dropped its vital support and backed […]

Protesters reject ‘military coup’, demand civilian transition Africans ready to reject sit-tight leaders – Mali’s PM Mara The fall of Sudan’s strongman Omar al-Bashir Thursday morning elicitedreactions from the global community with Mali’s Prime Minister Moussa Mara saying his “departure” shares the same principle with that of Algeria’s 82-year-old Abdelaziz Bouteflika who resigned as president following […]