The United Arab Emirates signed a $1.9-billion deal with a state mining company in DR Congo to develop at least four mines in the African country’s turbulent east, the Congolese presidency said Monday. ALSO READ: Helicopter crash claims three lives in DR Congo Congolese President Felix Tshisekedi’s office stated on Monday evening that an Emirati government […]

In an ode to Mandela Day and it’s namesake, the late Nelson Mandela, President Cyril Ramaphosa has penned a letter and urging citizens to advocate for peace as the former statesman did. ALSO READ: Commemorative spots to visit in Johannesburg this Mandela month UN RECOGNISES MANDELA DAY In 2009 the United Nations declared Mandela’s birthday 18 July […]

Chadian leader General Mahamat Idriss Deby Itno has pardoned 110 more people sentenced to jail terms following deadly protests against the regime last October, according to a decree seen by AFP on Monday 17 July 2023. Demonstrations against the extension of Deby’s transitional rule broke out last October in the capital N’Djamena and several other towns. Deby […]

President Vladimir Putin on Monday vowed to retaliate after a Ukrainian attack on a bridge linking Moscow-annexed Crimea to Russia killed two civilians and left their child wounded. ALSO READ: WATCH: BRICS summit to be ‘physical’ amid Putin warrant [VIDEO] “Another terrorist attack was committed on the bridge last night,” Putin said in televised remarks. “Of course, […]

After the death toll in a Kenyan cult massacre in which members were believed to have starved crossed 400, we look at other notorious killer sects. READ MORE: Lebanon central bank governor’s properties seized 914 DEAD, GUYANA JUNGLE APOCALYPSE In one of the most dramatic mass murder-suicides of modern history, 914 adults and children from […]

Eight people including seven members of one family were killed in Cairo on Monday when a residential building in Egypt’s capital collapsed, the public prosecution and state media said. ALSO READ: Enyobeni: “Tavern owner watched as children collapsed and died” A statement from the public prosecution said the building in the city’s Hadayek al-Qubba district “completely […]

An Arab rights group called Monday 17 July 2023 for international help for 360 sub-Saharan migrants who Libyan authorities say were rescued after having been abandoned in the desert by Tunisian police on the border with Libya. The Cairo-based Arab Organisation for Human Rights (AOHR) said it welcomed Libya’s reception of the migrants who had […]

Separatist rebels have killed about 10 civilians and wounded two more in one of Cameroon’s restive anglophone regions, the defence ministry said Monday. READ MORE: Lebanon central bank governor’s properties seized The country’s primarily English-speaking Northwest and Southwest regions have been gripped by conflict since separatists declared independence in 2017 after decades of grievances over […]

Hollywood A-listers have been walking red carpets in hot pink, glitter is back, and companies from The Gap to Burger King are doing rose-colored collaborations: “Barbie” mania is everywhere as the hotly anticipated film hits theaters worldwide. READ MORE: Nelson Mandela Bridge temporarily closed for maintenance Toy maker Mattel, who first unveiled the iconic doll in […]

Salvadoran officials on Monday announced the arrest of 110 members of an alleged international money laundering ring operating in the Central American country. Almost all member of the scheme were Colombian nationals, authorities in El Salvador said, alleging that they had failed to register as lenders and had offered residents loans with interest rates of 20 […]

Norway’s data protection agency said Monday it would ban Facebook and Instagram owner Meta from using the personal information of users for targeted advertising, threatening a $100,000 daily fine if it continues. The business practices of US big tech firms are under close scrutiny across Europe over concerns about privacy, with huge fines handed out […]

French prosecutors on Monday asked for 17 men to stand trial over rape and other crimes committed in the production of online pornography, a source close to the case told AFP. Accusations against the men include rape, gang rape, organised human trafficking and aggravated pimping, committed during video production for the “French Bukkake” platform, according to […]

A Lebanon judge on Monday ordered the seizure of embattled central bank governor Riad Salameh’s properties pending a local investigation into his wealth, a judicial official told AFP. Salameh has been the subject of a series of judicial probes both in crisis-hit Lebanon and abroad into the fortune he has amassed during some three decades in […]

The death toll in an investigation linked to a Kenyan cult that practised starvation to “meet Jesus Christ” has exceeded 400 after 12 more bodies were found on Monday, a senior official said. ALSO READ: Kenya president says no more room for opposition protests “Total death Toll – 403,” Coast Regional Commissioner Rhoda Onyancha told AFP in a […]

British rock star Elton John on Monday gave evidence as a witness for the defence at the sexual assault trial of Hollywood actor Kevin Spacey. The two-time Oscar winner denies 12 charges concerning four men, including indecent assault, which are alleged to have occurred between 2001 and 2013. ALSO READ: Elton John and Guns N’Roses rock Glastonbury Festival […]

Air strikes pummelled Khartoum on Sunday 16 July 2023, and fighting raged in Sudan’s western Darfur region, witnesses said, as a three-month war between the army and rival paramilitaries showed no signs of abating. In the capital’s east and northwest, army fighter jets “targeted bases” belonging to the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) who “responded […]

Zimbabwe’s largest opposition party on Sunday 16 July 2023 finally managed to launch its election campaign after multiple bans of planned rallies ahead of August 23 general polls. The southern African nation, long prone to political and economic instability, is bracing for another electoral battle between opposition leader Nelson Chamisa and iron-fisted President Emmerson Mnangagwa. […]

Russia on Monday said a Ukrainian attack on the Moscow-built bridge linking annexed Crimea to the Russian mainland killed a civilian couple and wounded their child. Moscow said two drones had hit the bridge in the early hours of Monday and blamed “the Kyiv regime.” ALSO READ: NATO to address the upcoming summit about Ukraine Traffic […]

The Ukrainian navy and SBU security service carried out an overnight attack on the Russian-built bridge linking annexed Crimea to Russia, a Ukrainian source told AFP Monday. ALSO READ: Ukraine retakes territory around Bakhmut from Russian forces “Today’s attack on the Crimean bridge is a special operation of the SBU and the navy,” the security service source said. […]

Libyan border guards have rescued dozens of migrants who have been left in the desert by Tunisian authorities without water and food, and their numbers are “rising”, an officer said Sunday 16 July 2023. Hundreds of migrants from sub-Saharan African countries were forcibly taken to desert and hostile areas bordering Libya and Algeria after racial […]

Ukraine said on Monday its forces had retaken several square kilometres of territory around the eastern city of Bakhmut, which Russian forces seized in May. ALSO READ: Pope’s Ukraine peace envoy on visit to Moscow Kyiv last month began its highly anticipated fightback against entrenched Russian troops after stockpiling Western weapons and building up its offensive forces. “Over […]

A beloved monument to Ethiopia’s traditional cabaret culture, the historic nightclub Fendika is running on borrowed time, having just escaped demolition. Two decades earlier, Fendika was one of 17 “azmari bet” (a venue hosting performances by Ethiopia’s azmari musicians) in the Kazanchis district, a neighbourhood harkening back to Addis Ababa’s jazz-fuelled era. ALSO READ: Egypt, Ethiopia […]

England cricket great Ian Botham has sold off more than 200 souvenirs from his career at a London auction, with items from his celebrated role in a 1981 Ashes triumph among the most highly-valued lots. The ball with which he took five Australia wickets for one run as England came from behind to win the fourth Test of […]

Sudanese national Mohannad and other refugees had only been in Cairo a few weeks when his landlady told him he would have to pay triple the rent if he wanted to keep his apartment. He had arrived with his wife and three children in the Egyptian capital — 2,000 kilometres (1,200 miles) north of his […]

The Hollywood actors’ union began to strike at midnight Thursday, after negotiations to reach a new contract with production studios ended without an agreement. Actors will join writers in the first industry-wide walkout for 63 years, effectively bringing the giant movie and television business to a halt. At 0701 GMT, the Screen Actors Guild (SAG-AFTRA), representing around […]