Lebanese Minister of Culture, Judge Muhammad Wissam Al-Murtada, on Friday called to lift the Israeli siege imposed on the Gaza Strip, Quds Press reported. This came during a visit by a delegation of the Popular Conference for Palestinians Abroad (PCPA) to the Lebanese minister at his office in Beirut. According to Quds Press, PCPA’s delegation consisted of[…]
The Department of Education says it’s confident that all learners who have not been placed, will be accommodated in Gauteng schools soon. Schools in the inland provinces re-opened on Wednesday, with some children still not enrolled. Parents visited district offices hoping to find suitable schools for their children. The education department[…]
Former Chinese Justice Minister Fu Zhenghua, who had led several high-profile investigations into corruption, has been jailed for life for accepting bribes, state media said on Thursday, as a purge of officials intensified ahead of a key Communist Party congress. Fu, 67, was handed a suspended death sentence that will[…]
South Africa has detected its fifth case of monkeypox. According to the Department of Health, the latest monkeypox case was discovered through laboratory testing in a 28-year-old man from Johannesburg. The department says the patient has a travel history to the Netherlands and Spain. Earlier this week, South Africa recorded its[…]
Ecuador’s interior minister has resigned in the wake of simultaneous riots in four prisons that left 79 people dead. “It is my own personal decision to submit my irrevocable resignation as minister,” Patricio Pazmino said in a letter to President Lenin Moreno, which was made public on Twitter on Friday.[…]
Eight Muslim officials in Sri Lanka have stepped down from their posts in solidarity with another minister, accused by the opposition of ties to the group behind the lethal Easter Sunday bombings that killed over 250 people. The ministers quit their posts on Monday in a show of solidarity with[…]
Good party leader and former Cape Town mayor, Patricia de Lille, says she is “deeply honoured and humbled to have received the call to serve as a minister in South Africa’s new Cabinet” and that it is time South Africans demonstrate their ability to “rise above party political differences”. President[…]
By Wardah Wilkinson The Department of Rural Development and Land Reform appeared in front of the Western Cape Standing Committee on Human Settlements on Wednesday to answer questions relating to current status of Phase 3 of the District Six restitution process, which has reached a standstill. Since the sod-turning for[…]
Saudi authorities are still reviewing a deadly stampede which struck last year’s hajj pilgrimage, the minister of hajj and umra said on Tuesday. It was a rare comment by a senior Saudi official about the tragedy. More than 2,000 pilgrims died in the stampede, the worst disaster to ever strike[…]
Israeli Justice Minister Ayelet Shaked has announced she will push for a controversial plan to extend Israeli civil law to West Bank settlements – a move that critics say would be tantamount to the annexation of territories beyond the Green Line. “Conditions need to be equal. There are basic laws[…]
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