Results: Opposition figure who became Senegal’s president-elect won over 54 per cent of the vote
President-elect Bassirou Diomaye Faye’s release from prison followed a political amnesty granted just in time for the balloting. He was little known until popular opposition leader Ousmane Sonko, who was barred from running due to a prior conviction, chose Faye to run in his place.
Trump resorts to selling ‘God Bless the USA’ Bibles for $59.99 as a pitch for his campaign
Besides a King James Version translation, it includes copies of the US Constitution, the Bill of Rights, the Declaration of Independence and the Pledge of Allegiance, as well as a handwritten chorus of the famous Greenwood song.
UN: 783 million people face chronic hunger yet the world wastes 19 per cent of its food
Researchers analysed country data on households, food service and retailers. They found that each person wastes about 79 kilogrammes (about 174 pounds) of food annually, equal to at least one billion meals wasted worldwide daily.
US Marine Corps Gen Michael Langley: Terrorism, poverty, food insecurity, climate change and migration shatter African lives
Africom espouses the 3D approach: diplomacy, development and defence professionals, to ensure a synchronised whole-of-government effect.
White-led South Africa’s main opposition Democratic Alliance party ready for a coalition with ANC
The DA has banded together with smaller parties to try to capture the more than 50 per cent of the vote needed to take power. They include the Zulu nationalist Inkatha Freedom Party, long a bitter rival of the ANC, as well as Freedom Front Plus, which appeals to rural white South Africans who feel politically marginalised since the fall of apartheid, and Action SA, which has built a platform on a tough anti-immigration stance and appeals to working- and middle-class voters.
Not in Jesus’ name: Kenya starts to hand over to relatives bodies of 429 followers of a doomsday cult
The Kenya Human Rights Commission last week said police failed to act on reports that could have prevented the deaths in the remote Shakahola area. Several reports had been filed at police stations by people whose relatives had entered the forested area.
Trump handed gag order in New York hush money criminal case but his team terms directive illegal
Trump faces 34 felony counts of falsifying business records to hide reimbursements to his former lawyer Michael Cohen for a $130,000 payment to porn star Stormy Daniels to buy her silence before the 2016 election about a sexual encounter she claimed to have had with Trump a decade earlier.
South Africa’s ANC fails to move court to ban ex-President Zuma’s party Umkhonto Wesizwe
South Africa’s May 29 elections are expected to be highly contested with the ANC, once led by anti-apartheid leader Nelson Mandela, under pressure to remain in power following declining support in successive elections as the country faces stagnant economic growth, high levels of poverty among its Black majority, and an unemployment rate of over 32 per cent.
Climate change: Schools to reopen in South Sudan after two weeks of extreme heat
South Sudan in recent years has experienced adverse effects of climate change, with extreme heat, flooding and drought reported during different seasons.
Scrutiny of iris-scanning crypto project Worldcoin grows as privacy campaigners call for ban
In August last year, Kenya suspended Worldcoin’s local activities while the government assesses potential risks to public safety.
