The Taliban supreme leader Haibatullah Akhundzada on Friday issued a special decree regarding women’s rights and directed relevant authorities to take actions to safeguard these rights. “The Islamic Emirate’s leadership directs all relevant Organizations, Ulema-e Karam (scholars) and Tribal Elders to take serious action to enforce Women’s Rights,” Afghan...
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The World Bank Group has called on the Federal Government to impose special taxes on alcohol, cigarettes and sugar-sweetened beverages to improve primary healthcare. “If we want to improve healthcare in Nigeria, we need to tax the things that are killing us. “The economic rationale for taxing these products...
President Joe Biden has unveiled stricter Covid-19 travel rules as the US confirmed a handful of cases of the Omicron variant from coast to coast. From next week, international travellers to the US, including Americans, must get a Covid test within one day of departure, regardless of vaccination status....
Unidentified gunmen on Thursday stormed a Mexican prison and freed nine inmates, Hidalgo state Interior Minister, Simon Vargas said. Vargas said the gunmen gained access to the prison in the central Mexican city of Tula by ramming their vehicles into the building, and setting two vehicles close to the...
A man was charged Tuesday with killing his four children and mother-in-law over the weekend inside a home in the western U.S. State of California, authorities said. Germarcus Lamar David, 29, faces five counts of murder and three counts of assault on a child causing death, said the Los...
A well-known Turkish defence analyst and founder of the opposition Democracy and Progress Party (DEVA), Metin Gurcan, has been jailed on charges of “political and military espionage,” local media reported on Tuesday. Gurcan, a former member of the Turkish military, was one of the co-founders of DEVA party led...
Fireworks filled the sky over Barbados on Tuesday as the Caribbean island nation declared itself the world’s newest republic, lowering Queen Elizabeth’s flag as it severed colonial-era ties to the British throne to the sound of jubilant gun salutes. “Republic Barbados has set sail on her maiden voyage,” Dame...
Ethiopia Government has denied it staged an attack over the weekend along its shared border with Sudan, blaming unrest in the disputed zone on rebels from its war-hit Tigray region. On Saturday Sudan’s military said “several” soldiers had been killed in an attack by armed groups and militias linked...
A new attack on the Ivo displaced people’s camp in the northeast of the Democratic Republic of Congo on Sunday claimed the lives of 22 civilians, an aid worker said. The same camp was attacked less than a week ago when 29 people were killed. Red Cross coordinator Mambo...
Negotiations on reviving the 2015 Iran nuclear deal are set to resume on Monday in Vienna amid few signs of progress and a tense atmosphere. Five months after the last round of talks, high-ranking diplomats from Germany, France, Britain, Russia, and China are returning to the Austrian capital to...
World Health Organisation (WHO) says it still ‘not clear’ whether Omicron COVID variant is more transmissible or more severe than Delta variant. WHO, in a statement on Sunday, said that its experts, researchers in South Africa and around the world are currently conducting studies to better understand Omicron. The...
Czech President Milos Zeman has appointed opposition leader Petr Fiala as the country’s new prime minister. Mr Zeman – who tested positive for coronavirus last week – made the appointment from inside a plexiglass box in a state room at his residence. The president was wheeled in by hospital...
A five-year-old child was shot and killed in Minnesota by a teen who was filming a social-media video with friends, police said. The shooting happened Thursday on what normally is a festive Thanksgiving Day, but which also saw another five-year-old die in a gun incident near Atlanta, while a...
Protesters burned tyres and pillaged a government building in Burkina Faso’s capital on Saturday after police fired tear gas to disperse a march against the state’s failure to stop a wave of violence by Islamist militants. Activist groups called for renewed protests in response to a recent surge of...
Sudanese Prime Minister Abdalla Hamdok said on Saturday he dismissed the chief of police, Lieutenant-General Khaled Mahdi Ibrahim Al-Emam, and his deputy. Lt.-Gen. Anan Hamed Mohammed Omar was appointed as the new police chief and Maj.-Gen. Muddathir Abd al-Rahman Nasr al-Din as his deputy, Hamdok added in a post...
Ghana’s parliament on Friday rejected the government’s 2022 budget proposal due to concerns over an electronic banking levy. It was the first time the national budget has been rejected since 1981 in the West African country. Ghana’s parliament is split between the two main parties following an election a...
Namibia is set to increase fuel prices by 70 Namibia cents (0.04 U.S. dollar) per liter from Dec. 1 due to a hike of global oil prices, the Ministry of Mines and Energy (MME) announced Friday. The price of gasoline at the pump in Walvis Bay will become 16.65...
Ethiopia’s Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed vowed Friday to “bury the enemy” in his first message from the battlefront, state media said, after he announced plans to lead a counter-offensive against Tigrayan rebels. As the rebels report major territorial gains, claiming this week to have seized a town just 220...
Libya’s government has condemned an attack on a court ahead of an appeal by the son of slain dictator Moamer Gaddafi against the rejection of his presidential election candidacy. The December 24 polls come as Libya seeks to turn a page on a decade of violence that has rocked...
Former Brazilian Olympic Committee (COB) President Carlos Arthur Nuzman has been sentenced to 30 years and 11 months in prison for alleged corruption, money laundering and tax evasion. Judge Marcelo Bretas said the 79-year-old played a leading role in a scheme to buy votes for Rio de Janeiro to...