Syrian insurgents captured several government airmen after their helicopter crashed in a rebel-held area of northwestern Syria on Sunday, activists said. The Idlib Media Center and the Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said the helicopter went down near Jabal al-Zawiya, some 10 kilometers (6 miles) north of the town[…]
Cape Town mayor Patricia de Lille wants Deputy President Cyril Ramaphosa to send her evidence of alleged racist incidents which have happened in the city. “The City of Cape Town is taking the lead in South Africa in addressing these difficult issues of race,” she said in an open letter[…]
The DA will not take part in a “secret process” to cover up President Jacob Zuma’s financial liability regarding the security upgrades to his private home in Nkandla, the opposition party said on Sunday. “We will not be co-opted, behind closed doors, into agreeing to a sanitised version,” Democratic Alliance[…]
The government says Lee Kuan Yew, who as the founder of modern Singapore helped transform the sleepy port into one of the world’s richest nations, has died. He was 91. Lee was admitted to Singapore General Hospital on Feb. 5 for severe pneumonia and was later put on life support. The[…]
The Eskom board wants its chairman Zola Tsotsi removed, City Press reported on Sunday. In a meeting on Thursday, all board members unanimously resolved to pass a motion of no confidence in Tsotsi, according to the paper. “All of them want him out,” a unnamed source close to the board[…]
Economic Freedom Fighters leader Julius Malema has called on people to take down all statues that are a reminder of apartheid, the Sunday Independent reported. “I’m challenging you. Revolution is not a legal activity. You must stop listening to those things like: This is illegal. There’s nothing like this,” he[…]
Cape Town mayor, Patrica de Lille on Saturday marked Human Rights Day by launching the ‘Inclusive City’ campaign. The campaign was aimed at creating public platforms for dialogue to confront what makes some residents feel excluded, while others felt entitled. “We face many challenges to a culture of rights, and[…]
In a fresh rebuke to Benjamin Netanyahu, United States President Barack Obama said the Israeli leader’s pre-election disavowal of a two-state solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict makes it “hard to find a path” toward serious negotiations to resolve the issue. In an interview with the Huffington Post, Obama also scolded[…]
Shiite rebels backed by supporters of former President Ali Abdullah Saleh seized Yemen’s third largest city of Taiz and its airport on Sunday, security and military officials said, as thousands took to the streets in protest. If the rebels hold onto the city, the capital of Yemen’s most populous province,[…]
A third attacker in the deadly assault on the Bardo museum is on the run, Tunisia’s president said Sunday, declaring his country at war with the extremists who killed 21 people at one of North Africa’s most revered cultural institutions. President Beji Caid Essebsi said the attack involved “three aggressors”[…]
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