South Africa greylisted by G-20 for failing to act firmly on money laundering, terrorist financing
The greylisting of South Africa last month by the Financial Action Task Force (FATF) has made waves in the country, occupying substantial media attention. South Africa became only the second G20 country to have been greylisted other than Turkey – an embarrassing fall from grace. Nigeria’s addition to the list...
Somali national security adviser says Kenya and Ethiopia will contribute more troops to fight Al-Shabaab
Three neighbouring countries of Somalia are to send new troops to support Somali forces against al-Shabab in the next phase of military operations, the national security adviser for the Somali president said. In an interview with VOA’s Somali Service on Wednesday, Hussein Sheikh-Ali said Djibouti, Ethiopia and Kenya will be...
US cartoonist in trouble for Whites ‘assisting Blacks, Native Americans, Vietnamese, Iraqis and have never been thanked once’ remark
Wednesday’s peculiar Youtube remarks by Dilbert cartoonist Scott Adams about Black Americans being a “hate group” have certainly received a lot of attention. Hundreds of newspapers across the US have now dropped Adams’s strip. What’s gotten almost no notice, however, is how Adams went on at length about his efforts...
Without giving actual numbers, new UN report says violence in South Sudan is up 87 per cent
Violence against South Sudanese civilians increased sharply at the end of last year according to the United Nations (UN) mission in the world’s youngest country. The latest quarterly brief compiled by UNMISS shows the number of civilians “harmed” was up 87 per cent – without giving actual numbers – for...
Ukraine reporter’s diary: When I visited Lidiia last she refused to move and vowed ‘I want to die in my bed’
The last time I visited Lidiia – an 85-year-old woman who lived alone in Mariinka, a town along the ‘line of contact’ that has been largely reduced to rubble – was in early February 2022, a couple of weeks before the full-scale invasion. The fighting around Mariinka was already intensifying,...
Ukraine reporter’s diary: After all the horror they’d experienced, the desperation I saw was hard to process
I’ve been covering conflict in Ukraine for more than eight years. I was in the country when Russia launched its full-scale invasion on February 24 last year and have visited several times since. Still, I was shocked by what I saw during my latest reporting trip in January. Before the...
