Suspected rebels have killed at least 17 civilians belonging to the Tuareg ethnic community in northern Mali, just days after 40 Tuaregs were killed during a similar raid on nearby villages, authorities say. The attacks occurred on Tuesday in the village of Tindibawen, 160km east of the town of Menaka[…]
At least 12 people have been reported killed on Wednesday as armed militants including at least one suicide bomber stormed the offices of the Libyan electoral commission in Tripoli in an attack claimed by Islamic State. The attackers set the building ablaze, according to spokesman Khaled Amar, who fled with[…]
The United States announced on Wednesday the first transfer of a prisoner from the Guantanamo Bay detention centre since Donald Trump was elected, lowering the prisoner population at a facility the president has signalled he would like to repopulate. The US military said Ahmed Muhammed Haza al-Darbi’s transfer to Saudi[…]
Saeb Erekat, secretary general of the Executive Committee of the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO), said that the Palestinian side will not be part of any peace plan proposed by US president Donald Trump. During a meeting with Sweden’s State Secretary for Foreign Affairs, Annika Söder, and the accompanying delegation in[…]
A Mitchell’s Plain resident died on Wednesday night after he was hit by a taxi which then fled the scene during a community protest, authorities said. Cape Town law enforcement spokesperson Wayne Dyason told News24 that two other people were injured when police fired rubber bullets at the crowd. A[…]
Cape Town Mayor Patricia de Lille has made representations to the Democratic Alliance’s federal executive to say why she should not be removed from her post as mayor. De Lille made the submissions on Wednesday as required by the DA’s new “recall” process, after the majority of the party’s Cape[…]
Businessman Saleem Dawjee, former Western Cape police commissioner Arno Lamoer and two former police officers will be sentenced in the Western Cape High Court next week following a lengthy trial. “We have to wrap things up. I need time to sit and consider all these submissions and evidence and come[…]
The Department of Basic Education is implementing a new system that will do away with supplementary exams and replace them with a second national exam, giving students an opportunity to better their results. The new system will save the department money and give pupils more time to prepare for exams.[…]
Israel’s parliament on Tuesday passed the first reading of a bill which will change the country’s constitution to declare Jerusalem as its capital and relegate Arabic from an official language to one with “special status”. The Knesset voted 64 to 50 to pass the “Israel – the national state for[…]
Myanmar must carry out a “proper investigation” into alleged crimes against the country’s minority Rohingya population, Britain’s ambassador to the United Nations said. Karen Pierce called on Tuesday for the “root causes” of the crisis – which has seen hundreds of thousands of Rohingya flee Myanmar for neighbouring Bangladesh as[…]
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