Category: Africa and the rest of the world

Fulgence Kayishema, one of the last fugitives sought for their role in the 1994 Rwanda genocide, holds up a Christian book as he sits in the Cape Town Magistrate’s Court in Cape Town on May 26, 2023, two days after being arrested following 22 years on the run. (Photo by Rodger Bosch / AFP) One […]

German Chancellor Olaf Scholz Germany fell into a recession around the turn of the year, official figures published Thursday showed, as inflation and higher interest rates curbed demand in Europe’s largest economy. Over the first three months of 2023, the economy shrank by 0.3 percent, the federal statistics agency Destatis said, downgrading an initial estimate […]

This picture shows a deserted street in southern Khartoum on May 23, 2023, after a one-week ceasefire between Sudan’s army and paramilitary Rapid Support Forces officially went into force. (Photo by – / AFP) Explosions again shook Sudan’s capital on Tuesday, dimming hopes that a US and Saudi-brokered humanitarian ceasefire will take hold on the […]

awards accuser $5m in damages The jury seated in New York has found former President of the United States, Donald Trump, liable of sexual assault in a case involving writer, Jean E. Carroll. The former Elle magazine columnist filed a defamation and battery suit against Trump last year, after a law took effect in New […]

The royal couple sit together and chat in the Gold State Coach as they prepare to set off for Buckingham Palace. Photo: Dailymail.co.uk Charles III on Saturday finally met his date with destiny after a lifetime as heir to his late mother Queen Elizabeth II, as he was officially crowned king in the first coronation […]

Members of the Uganda Peoples’ Defence Forces (UPDF) position themselves on the Ugandan side of the border town in Bunagana, Democratic Republic of Congo, while awaiting deployment . – Democratic Republic of Congo rebels continued to occupy strategic positions in the east of the country (Photo by Glody Murhabazi / AFP) UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres […]

King Charles III receives a royal salute from members of the military in the gardens of Buckingham Place in London, on May 6, 2023, following his coronation. – The set-piece coronation is the first in Britain in 70 years, and only the second in history to be televised. Charles will be the 40th reigning monarch […]

Today in history, the world, particularly United Kingdom, will be witnessing the coronation of a new monarch, Prince Charles III and his wife, Camilla, as King and Queen of the British Empire and the other Commonwealth realms at Westminster Abbey. After about 71 years of Queen Elizabeth II’s steady reign over the United Kingdom and […]

Venezuela’s Oil Minister and President of the Venezuelan state oil company PDVSA, Pedro Rafael Tellechea, listens during a press conference at Miraflores Presidential Palace in Caracas on May 3, 2023. – The Venezuelan government rejected on May 3, 2023, the judicial decision in the United States that allows the “auction” of Citgo, a US affiliate […]

Pope Francis urged more help for victims of clerical abuse in developing countries Friday as he welcomed new members of his commission to protect children, which has been beset by problems. The 86-year-old pontiff set up the Pontifical Commission for the Protection of Minors in 2014 in response to the scandal of paedophile priests discrediting […]