Woman with personality disorder jailed for eight years for demanding Putin’s death over Ukraine
On May 14, 2022, she posted over three dozen times on VKontakte, a social network, hurling insults at Putin and saying he bore personal responsibility for the deaths of men, women and children whose bodies were being pulled from under the rubble of Ukrainian apartment blocks.
Russia relapses into dark era of Soviet paranoia as citizens spy on each other over Ukraine
In news reports, court cases and on social media, examples have come to light of neighbour informing on neighbour, churchgoers denouncing priests and students reporting on teachers. For some, the resulting current climate is reminiscent of the atmosphere of mutual distrust and suspicion under Soviet Communist rule.
Five Eyes: Nomination of Gabbard as US intelligence chief by Trump rattles spy world
A Western security source said there could be an initial slowdown in intelligence sharing when Trump takes office in January that could potentially impact the “Five Eyes,” an intelligence alliance comprising the US, Britain, Canada, Australia and New Zealand.
SADC cannot sit back and watch Mozambique descend into abyss, Maputo must called to order
Realising polls could be manipulated without any consequences besides opposition cries and electoral observer group criticism, FRELIMO stepped up the election fraud. In the 2023 local elections, FRELIMO mayors were declared winners in 64 out of 65 municipalities, leading to a major revolt by the opposition that lasted over 40 days.
To Africans, Trump is just a distant leader who’s ‘is not going to save us from hunger caused by our government’s’
US foreign policy has not made Africa a priority for a long while – beyond seeing the continent through the lens of countering rivals such as Russia and China, said Charles Ray, chair of the Foreign Policy Research Institute’s Africa Programme.
Kenyan president’s key American ‘saleswoman’, Ambassador Meg Whitman, quits to signal imminent hard times for Nairobi
Former US Ambassador to Kenya Smith Hempstone (1989-1993) was a darling of the opposition due to his open and strong support, both materially and politically, to the democratic movements at the time in Kenya.
Climate change: World meets in Baku as Uganda grapples with scourge of environmental refugees
A time or temporal dimension of the environment does exist so that we can talk of four dimensions of the environment (the ecological-biological, the socioeconomic, the sociocultural and the temporal). However, the dimensions are not mutually exclusive but are mutually inclusive. Some causes of refugee migrations are a result of interactions of the phenomena occurring in the dimensions of the environment.
UN accuses Iran, UAE and Egypt of ‘enabling the slaughter in Sudan’ by arming warring factions
Sudan plunged into conflict in mid-April 2023, when long-simmering tensions between its military and paramilitary leaders broke out in the capital, Khartoum and spread to other regions, including western Darfur, which was wracked by bloodshed and atrocities in 2003. The UN recently warned that the country has been pushed to the brink of famine.
Trump names Elon Musk to head nearly created, informal Department of Government Efficiency
Elon Musk, ranked by Forbes as the richest person in the world, already stood to benefit from Trump’s victory, with the billionaire entrepreneur expected to wield extraordinary influence to help his companies and secure favourable government treatment.
Allies: Trump will make slew of executive orders to arrest migrants with no criminal record on day one in White House
One of Trump’s Day One executive actions is expected to be an order on so-called interior enforcement, arresting and detaining immigrants in the US illegally, the sources said.
