Kenya’s election body has postponed voting in four counties to Saturday, October 28. The main reason for the move was due to insecurity in the said places. Chairman of the Independent Electoral and Boundaries Commission (IEBC), Wafula Chebukati, in a press briefing said voters in Migori, Siaya, Kisumu and Homa[…]
A new report by the UN and the chemical watchdog says the Syrian government was responsible for a chemical attack that killed scores of people in April. More than 80 people, including many women and children, died when, on April 4, the nerve agent sarin or a sarin-like substance was[…]
The search for missing diver, Muhammad Nur Mitchell has entered its fifth day. Mitchell went missing at the weekend, after taking to sea at Saunders Rocks, in Bantry Bay. The 32-year-old husband and father went diving with his brother-in-law, Hishaam Davids, when he is said to have been engulfed by rising[…]
The family of University of Cape Town (UCT) student Ebraheem Goder is asking for help in locating him, after he disappeared on Wednesday. Goder’s father, Maulana Mohammad Ali Goder, says the 22-year-old Bachelor of Arts student’s last known location was UCT. Speaking to VOC News, Maulana Ali explains that Ebraheem spoke[…]
A Turkish court late Wednesday ordered the release of eight human rights activists who are standing trial, including Amnesty International’s director of Turkey, Idil Eser. The activists will be released on bail. Their next hearing is set for 22 November. A total of 11 activists, including a German and a[…]
Voting is under way in Kenya amid tight security in a re-run of the presidential election, which is being boycotted by the main opposition. Police have clashed with opposition supporters, some of whom have been blocking access to polling stations. President Uhuru Kenyatta was declared the winner in an August[…]
On Friday, education rights group Equal Education (EE) Western Cape will mobilise hundreds of activists for a mass march calling for police to improve safety at schools and in communities. The organisation has been consistently campaigning for equitable police resources to be deployed in crime and gang infested communities, but[…]
State-owned entities present a major fiscal risk to the economy, but two of them – SAA and the SA Post Office – will receive R8.5-billion in government funding, putting South Africa’s carefully maintained expenditure ceiling at risk of a R3.9-billion breach. Finance Minister Malusi Gigaba announced in his medium-term Budget[…]
President Jacob Zuma’s 11th-hour about-turn – abandoning plans to have Thuli Madonsela’s State of Capture report referred to her successor as public protector for further investigation – has left the situation in legal limbo. Zuma had asked the High Court to review and set aside the remedial action specified by[…]
The government of Qatar has approved a draft bill to set up a support fund for its two million-strong foreign workforce. Issa al-Nuaimi, Qatari labour minister, said that the fund would ensure overdue wages were paid to workers. The fund, called “Workers’ Support and Insurance Fund”, would operate independently under[…]
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