Botswana election expected to back ruling BDP that has been in power since independence
Botswana has been held up as one of Africa’s success stories as a peaceful and stable democracy with one of the best standards of living in the region, but it is facing new economic challenges that have pushed the BDP to concede that policy change is needed.
CNN bans conservative writer after ‘beeper’ comment to Muslim commentator
CNN was having a heated discussion about the Trump rally, where the racist and other demeaning language was a sign of how tensions are coming to a boil with only a week to go until a highly contested and contentious Election Day that reflects the nation’s political and cultural fissures.
Harris: Trump is unstable, obsessed with revenge, consumed with grievance and out for unchecked power to be US president
Kamala Harris was flanked by American flags on stage and surrounded by blue and white banners that said “FREEDOM” with a well-lit White House behind her. The crowd included older people and college students, people from overseas, from New York and from nearby Virginia. Many women came in groups with other female friends.
Supreme Court overturns ruling of lower court that voided 2023 finance law, gives Kenya government tax nod
The finance bills form the main vehicle for the government to set out revenue-raising measures, and Ruto’s administration has been relying on the 2023 finance law to continue collecting taxes after the rollback of this year’s legislation.
HRW: Burkina Faso exposed civilians to risk during al-Qaeda-linked militia attack in which 133 villagers were killed
“The massacre in Barsalogho is the latest example of atrocities by Islamist armed groups against civilians whom the government has put at unnecessary risk,” Ilaria Allegrozzi, senior Sahel researcher at Human Rights Watch, said in the report.
Sixty years after unwinding of Jim Crow, Trump’s MAGA reminds Black voters of horrors of bloody past
It’s almost at the edge of living memory: President Lyndon Johnson signing the Civil Rights Act in July 1964, urging Americans to “close the springs of racial poison.” The legislation prohibited discrimination on the basis of race, colour, religion, sex or national origin at places serving the public – such...
Guinea’s ruling junta dissolves 53 political parties, places 54 others under ‘observation’
Col Mamadi Doumbouya has rebuffed attempts by the West and other developed countries to intervene in Africa’s political challenges, saying Africans are “exhausted by the categorizations with which everyone wants to box us in.”
After Uganda doused its education with politics, it rendered knowledge industry sterile to steer the country
Educational reforms in Uganda since 1986, that culminated in the introduction of Universal Primary Education (UPE) in 1996, attempted to reestablish centralised control of education and, by implication, reverse the trend toward the unregulated involvement in education of both of parents and non-state institutions (Nansozi Muwanga, 2000).
The Washington Post scandal: New revelations raise integrity, objectivity questions in American media
The spiking of an article unfavourable to Democrats – a rare investigation that would cast pro-Palestine protesters in a sympathetic light – comes after Jeff Bezos, the owner of The Washington Post, intervened in the opposite direction, blocking the paper from endorsing Kamala Harris for president.
Hezbollah’s new leader Sheikh Naim Qassem endorses Lebanon ceasefire talks without Gaza precondition
Speaking on September 30, Naim Qassem said Hezbollah would choose a successor to its slain secretary general “at the earliest opportunity” and would continue to fight Israel in solidarity with Palestinians.
