Ethiopia’s Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed and Eritrean President Isaias Afwerki signed a peace agreement in Saudi Arabia on Sunday, the second peace deal reached since July between the once warring African countries. The Ethiopian and Eritrean leaders signed a “joint declaration of peace and friendship” on July 9, normalizing ties[…]
Hong Kong and southern China took cover on Sunday as strong winds and heavy rain from Typhoon Mangkhut lashed the densely populated coast, a day after the biggest storm to hit the Philippines this year left at least 64 people dead. Two more people were killed as the storm made[…]
The African National Congress National Working Committee (ANC NWC) is expected to question party secretary-general Ace Magashule following his meeting with former President Jacob Zuma in Durban more than a week ago. Magashule has been in the spotlight in the past week, after a Sunday Times newspaper report alleged that[…]
The judicial commission of inquiry into state capture is on Monday expected to hear evidence from representatives of banks that were involved in the closure of Gupta related bank accounts. In 2016, the country’s big four banks decided to close Gupta owned bank accounts after they detected several suspicious transactions.[…]
Former ANC leader in the Western Cape, Marius Fransman, has been ordered by the Human Rights Commission to apologise in writing to the South African Jewish Board of Deputies. This follows remarks he made on a Cape Town Muslim radio station in which he accused Jewish Board of Deputies of[…]
France acknowledged for the first time it was responsible for systematic torture during the Algerian war of independence in the mid-1950s. President Emmanuel Macron said on Thursday that Maurice Audin, a communist pro-independence activist who disappeared in 1957, “died under torture stemming from the system instigated while Algeria was part[…]
Turkey has said it is working with Russia and Iran to stabilize Syria’s rebel-held Idlib region, indicating continued efforts to avoid a Syrian government offensive in the area, where Ankara failed to secure a ceasefire last week. Damascus, backed by Russia and Iran, has been preparing a major assault to[…]
US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said Wednesday he has certified to Congress that coalition partners Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates are acting to reduce risks to civilians from their military operations in Yemen. Pompeo said he delivered the certification on Tuesday to Congress, as required by US[…]
Israeli forces have dismantled several shacks that were set up by Palestinian protesters close to the Bedouin village of Khan al-Ahmar. Activists had erected a number of huts near the village, home to nearly 200 people, in the occupied West Bank that is slated for demolition by Israel. Israeli forces[…]
South Sudan’s President Salva Kiir signed a peace deal with main rebel leader Riek Machar on Wednesday, formally ending a five-year war that has killed tens of thousands. The deal, mediated by Sudan and signed in the Ethiopian capital Addis Ababa, reinstated Machar in his former role as vice president[…]
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