Nicolas Sarkozy’s links with Muammar Gaddafi have come under fresh scrutiny after a businessman admitted delivering three cash-stuffed suitcases from the late Libyan leader towards the Frenchman’s first presidential bid. In an interview with the Mediapart investigative news site, Franco-Lebanese businessman Ziad Takieddine has said he made three trips from[…]
Jakarta’s Christian governor has been formally named a suspect on blasphemy allegations after claims that he insulted Islam led to a violent mass protest by Muslim groups in the Indonesian capital. After a lengthy preliminary investigation, police said that the allegations against Basuki Tjahaja Purnama, who is also a member[…]
As women the world over suffer physical and emotional abuse in silent, local advocacy groups are using the 16 Days of Activism against Gender-Based Violence to create awareness about the reasons why women choose to remain in abusive relationships. Forming part of an international campaign, the 16 Days of Activism[…]
This week, renowned humanitarian, Dr Imtiaz Sooliman scooped the Global Citizen Award for his work with relief organisation, Gift of the Givers Foundation (GOGF). On Friday, November 11, 2016, international advisory firm, Henley & Partners, honoured Sooliman at the prestigious event, which was hosted London. As the founder of the GOGF,[…]
The case against terror-accused twins Brandon-Lee and Tony-Lee Thulsie is expected to resume in the Johannesburg Magistrate’s Court on Tuesday. The twins were arrested in July, and face three counts of contravening the Protection of Constitutional Democracy Against Terrorist and Related Activities Act. On November 7, the case against the[…]
DA leader Mmusi Maimane will on Tuesday lay criminal charges against President Jacob Zuma for refusing to answer questions about the “State of Capture” report. In parliamentary replies released on Monday, Zuma gave a standard answer to 10 different questions from opposition MPs regarding his relationship with the Gupta family,[…]
President Jacob Zuma has accepted the resignation of two more SABC board members. “President Jacob Zuma has received and accepted the resignations of Ms Vuyo Mhlakaza and Dr Aaron Tshidzumba as members of the board of the South African Broadcasting Corporation (SABC), with immediate effect,” the Presidency said in a[…]
Congo’s prime minister and cabinet resigned on Monday as part of a deal that extends the tenure of President Joseph Kabila, who also defended the right of the Congolese people to change the constitution currently barring him from running again. Kabila is supposed to step down when his mandate runs[…]
The Palestinian Authority has expressed outrage and concern about the introduction of a new Israeli bill that would muffle the traditional Muslim call to prayer. Speaking from Turkmenistan, Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas’ spokesman Nabil Abu Rudeineh said in a statement that the proposed law, which would ban the use of[…]
The US may have committed war crimes of torture, cruel treatment and rape, when it interrogated dozens of people in Afghanistan between 2003 and 2014, the International Criminal Court’s chief prosecutor said. The International Criminal Court’s preliminary probe of the US armed forces and CIA activities in Afghanistan between 2003 and[…]
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