South African political parties share cabinet slots to seal deal on new coalition government
The power-sharing coalition is unprecedented for South Africa. The country briefly had a coalition government at the end of apartheid, but that was under different circumstances. The ANC held a clear majority then after the first all-race election, but new President Nelson Mandela invited others into his government in an act of reconciliation.
Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden undeterred by age, bad debate concerns
Campaign spokesperson Michael Tyler said there were no conversations taking place about that possibility. “We’d rather have one bad night than a candidate with a bad vision for where he wants to take the country,” he told reporters aboard Air Force One.
GOP, Democrats tussle plays out in judiciary as US Supreme Court raises bar for obstruction charge against Trump
Chief Justice Roberts rejected the Justice Department’s more expansive reading of what constitutes obstruction, calling it “a novel interpretation (that) would criminalise a broad swath of prosaic conduct, exposing activists and lobbyists alike to decades in prison.”
Presindetial debate: American voters to asses Biden and Trump on age, verbal gaffes and threats to democracy
While national polls show a tied race, Biden has trailed Trump in polls of most battleground states and recently saw his financial edge erased after Trump was convicted in connection with hush money payments made to a porn star.
Palpable tension in Nairobi, police clash with protesters in Kenya as military patrols streets
The leaderless movement began online with young people demanding that legislators reject the proposed tax hikes. It later morphed into calls for the president’s resignation after the bill was passed. On Tuesday, thousands of protesters stormed Kenya’s parliament, burning parts of the building and sending lawmakers fleeing. Police opened fire and at least 23 people were reportedly killed in the chaos.
Why irate Kenyan youth unleashed their economic frustrations on President Ruto, burned parliament
Young Kenyans have been organising on social media, organising peaceful street demonstrations meant to force authorities to drop this finance bill altogether. The protests started on June 18 after the bill was made public for the first time.
Trump elates evangelicals in Philadelphia after backing Ten Commandments display in schools, public
Trump’s stated opposition to signing a nationwide ban on abortion and his reluctance to detail some of his views on the issue are at odds with many members of the evangelical movement, a key part of Trump’s base that’s expected to help him turn out voters in his November rematch with Democratic President Joe Biden.
Biden tours Pennsylvania as he seeks to peel away again GOP women in swing-state suburbs from Trump
Biden and his allies are trying to replicate Democrats’ success with suburban women this year and signalling they can win a small number of Republican women who may be opposed to a second Trump presidency. But in dozens of interviews this month in Pennsylvania’s Bucks County, there was little evidence that traditional Republicans were ready to abandon Trump, the presumptive GOP nominee, in significant numbers.
New York prosecutors urge judge to keep gag order blocking Trump from criticising jurors
Defence attorneys argue Trump should be free to fully address the case as he campaigns for the White House, pointing to comments made by President Joe Biden and the continued public criticism of him by his ex-lawyer Michael Cohen and the porn actor Stormy Daniels, both key prosecution witnesses.
Democratisation: Why Uganda imports everything, including fear from tin-god Adolf Hitler
Many Ugandans are increasingly wondering if their descendants will in future belong to Uganda and enjoy their lives in their biocultural landscapes, eating the food that is socio-culturally suitable and produced in their time-tested agroecological systems. They see people with historical, biological, cultural and ecological roots in extraneous environments grabbing their land, destroying their sacred places and establishing themselves in the ancient agroecological systems and forests, thereby disrupting their traditional human-energy systems.