Experts: Sticking points in push to address global plastic crisis may not be resolved at South Korea meet
Led by Norway and Rwanda, 66 countries plus the European Union say they want to address the total amount of plastic on Earth by controlling design, production, consumption and where plastic ends up.
HRW report says Mozambican police, army killed 10 children during election protests
The leftist party, known as Frelimo, has often been accused of rigging elections to remain in power. There were violent protests after last year’s local elections, but these demonstrations have been the biggest challenge to Frelimo’s long rule.
South African dissident writer and poet Breyten Breytenbach dies at 85 in Paris
South African writer and poet Breyten Breytenbach, a staunch opponent of the former white-minority government’s apartheid policy of racial oppression, has died in Paris, his family announced on Sunday. He was 85. Breytenbach was a celebrated wordsmith, a leading voice in literature in Afrikaans – an offshoot of Dutch that...
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.
