Category: Africa and the rest of the world

The Secretary-General of the UN, Antonio Guterres and staff members, remembered former Secretary-General Kofi Annan on Wednesday, describing him as a leader who put people at the centre of the UN work. During a wreath-laying ceremony in New York, Guterres led staff members in paying respects to Annan, whom they described as the embodiment of […]

Putin dances at Austrian minister’s wedding Russian President Vladimir Putin attended the wedding of Austrian Foreign Minister Karin Kneissl, including dancing with the leader. On Saturday, Putin stopped in Gamlitz in the southern Austrian province of Styria on his way to Germany to meet Chancellor Angela Merkel. Kneissl, 53, wore a traditional “dirndl” dress in […]

Stranded illegal migrants Italy’s far-right interior minister threatened Sunday to send “back to Libya” nearly 180 people stranded for three days on an Italian coast-guard ship if the EU did not step in to resolve another migrant row with Malta. The 177 people have been sat off the coast of the Italian island of Lampedusa […]

Kenyan Mwaniki’s bed after the phone exploded A Kenyan based in Nairobi’s slum neighbourhood of Kibera, is nursing serious burns at the Kenyatta National Hospital (KNH) after a mobile phone plugged into a charger exploded in his bed as he slept. The victim identified as Jackson Mwaniki lives alone in the neighbourhood, the Nairobian newspaper […]

Seif al-Din Mohamed Mostafa is accused of hijacking an EgyptAir plane and forcing it to divert to Cyprus. PHOTO: Reuters An Egyptian man accused of hijacking a plane and diverting it to Cyprus has been sent back from the Mediterranean island to his homeland after a two-year extradition battle, officials said Sunday. Seif al-Din Mohamed […]

China will send a senior negotiator to the United States in late August to resume trade talks, its commerce ministry said Thursday, the first public meeting on the dispute in weeks as the trade conflict intensifies. Beijing and Washington have slapped tariffs on tens of billions of dollars worth of each other’s goods since they […]

The United States re-imposed a wave of tough, unilateral sanctions against Iran on Tuesday, bringing back into effect harsh penalties that had been lifted under a historic, multi-party nuclear agreement that President Donald Trump abandoned in May. The first of two rounds of US sanctions kicked in at 12:01 am (0431 GMT), targeting Iran’s access […]

Zimbabwe’s President Emmerson Mnangagwa, who narrowly won re-election as the president of Zimbabwe in a poll followed by violence and political tension, has condemned a move by riot police to break up a news conference held by his unsuccessful challenger, Nelson Chamisa. “The scenes today (Friday) at the Bronte Hotel [in Harare] have no place […]

President Emmerson Mnangagwa has been announced as winner of Zimbabwe’s July 30 presidential elections. The 75 year-old leader polled 50.8 percent of votes as against 44.3 percent polled by his closest challenger Nelson Chamisa of the MDC Alliance.. Zimbabwe electoral rule says a candidate needs to win 50 per cent plus one vote to clinch […]

President Muhammadu Buhari was Tuesday in Lome elected the new Chairman of the Authority of Heads of State and Government of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS). His election was one of the high points of the 53rd Session of the Authority of Heads of State and Government of ECOWAS which held in […]