Pregnant women and women with small children who have been jailed as part of an ongoing government witch-hunt against followers of the Gülen movement have been experiencing serious problems and rights violations in Turkey’s jails, according to a story in the Cumhuriyet daily on Thursday. The plight of the pregnant […]
Whoever said Africa was not capable of managing its own affairs had yet to encounter the Ecowas Youth Volunteer Scheme. To ECOWAS insiders, it’s the de facto “Marshall Plan” of ECOWAS that seeks to uplift the Mano River Union countries embedded within ECOWAS — Liberia; Sierra Leone; Guinea-Bissau — from […]
International advocacy organisation Global Citizen today announced that Beyoncé & JAY-Z, Cassper Nyovest, D’banj, Ed Sheeran, Eddie Vedder, Femi Kuti, Pharrell Williams & Chris Martin, Sho Madjozi, Tiwa Savage, Usher, and Wizkid will headline the first Global Citizen Festival to be held in Africa, a free-ticketed event on Sunday, 2 […]
The Iranian Foreign Minister, Javad Zarif has, in a video gave explicit accounts of Iran’s agreement with the European Union and the United States regarding its defensive capabilities and regional influence. In that video, Javad Zarif mentioned that for the first 2 years of his time in office, he spent […]
Nigerians praise government and military efforts to fight violent extremism but report high levels of fear and personal experience of such violence, a recent Afrobarometer survey reveals. They see extremist groups as receiving support from a wide variety of sources in the government, military, and extremist organizations abroad, and they […]
Thousands of people have attended a memorial service in South Africa to commemorate the life of Winnie Madikizela-Mandela. The anti-apartheid campaigner and ex-wife of Nelson Mandela, South Africa’s first black president, died on 2 April.
A tourist helicopter has crashed in the Grand Canyon in the US state of Arizona, killing three people and injuring four. The aircraft suffered “substantial damage”, a spokesman for the Federal Aviation Authority said. It was in the Grand Canyon West area when it came down at around 17:20 local […]
Oxfam failed in its “moral leadership” in how it handled allegations about sexual misconduct by aid workers in Haiti, Penny Mordaunt has said. The international development secretary is meeting the charity on Monday and warns it cannot remain a “partner” if it fails to account for its actions. She has […]
Somalia’s military court has sentenced a man to death for his role in the country’s deadliest bombing last year, in which at least 500 were killed. Hassan Adan Isaq was accused of leading an al-Shabab unit said to have carried out the truck attack in the capital Mogadishu on 14 […]
The African Union (AU) and the Intergovernmental Authority on Development (IGAD) must step in to ensure that the self-proclamation of Raila Odinga and subsequent attempts to swear himself in as President of Kenya does not degenerate into chaos, CEO of Irbard Security Consult, Irbard Ibrahim has suggested. Kenyan authorities shut […]
