Africa records highest number of intimate partner, family killings with estimated 21,700 victims in 2023
There were also high rates last year in the Americas with 1.6 female victims per 100,000 and in Oceania with 1.5 per 100,000, it said. Rates were significantly lower in Asia at 0.8 victims per 100,000 and Europe at 0.6 per 100,000.
Sudanese footballer Abdulsalam left Sudan for Italy, walked to France, then Belgium, spending 20 hours under a moving truck
Many parts of Khartoum and Omdurman, two cities separated by the River Nile, are in ruins. The latter is home to both of the nation’s football teams, Al Hilal and Al Merrikh, whose grounds are just a few hundred metres apart.
Sudan’s football team have been forced into a nomadic existence playing ‘home’ games in South Sudan
With approximately 19 million children unable to go to school or university, Noor fears for “a whole generation of young Sudanese who are losing out on their future”.
Vice President Netumbo Nandi-Ndaitwah on the cusp of becoming Namibia’s first-ever female president
Political analyst Henning Melber, a professor at the University of Pretoria and the University of the Free State, believes SWAPO and Nandi-Ndaitwah must take the 2019 election results as a warning even though they appear favoured to win the elections.
In the eye of a storm: Republicans defend Trump intelligence pick Gabbard
Tulsi Gabbard, who said last month she is joining the Republican Party, has served in the Army National Guard for more than two decades. She was deployed to Iraq and Kuwait and, according to the Hawaii National Guard, received a Combat Medical Badge in 2005 for “participation in combat operations under enemy hostile fire in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom III.”
Adani bonds slide to year low as investors weigh bribery allegations
Longer-dated Ports bonds , were down on Monday and have lost between 8 cents and 10 cents in face value on the news. Adani Transmission debt maturing in May 2036 fell 1.8 cent on Monday for a loss of more than 7 cents since Wednesday.
Donald Trump leans on son to pick controversial cabinet of modern times
Don Jr is due to join conservative venture capital fund 1789 Capital, although one of the sources said he will continue to host his politics-focused podcast and support candidates that espouse Trump’s brand of politics. He will provide advice to his father in the White House.
Ugandans lack socioeconomic transformation because public funds are only dished out to the ‘politically correct’
Land-grabbing and the settlement of an alien group of people in all parts of the country where the traditional ethnic groups of Uganda have thrived for centuries have brought into focus a well-coordinated plot to own every resource in a cultural void.
Rethinking environment: Why Uganda’s diverse ecologies face extinction in absence of informed management and conservation
Few environmental managers are aware that time is an integral component of the environment. They are also unaware that the environment is more than the physical environment (the ecological-biological) and include the socio-economic dimension, the socio-cultural dimension and the socio-cultural dimension (which includes the sociopolitical perspective).
Al Qaeda affiliate kills at least six Russian mercenaries in central Mali, group says
Russia has capitalised on deteriorating relations between the West and coup-affected Sahel nations in West Africa to send fighters and assert its influence. Wagner has been active in the Sahel, the vast expanse south of the Sahara Desert.
