For Zimbabwe’s doctors, few institutions reflect their country’s decay under Robert Mugabe than their public hospitals, once vaunted but now under-equipped and crumbling. Latex gloves serve as urine bags, operating rooms lack light bulbs and patients are often required to refuel their own ambulances, medics say. Mugabe, who died last week in Singapore at age […]
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Published on 10.09.2019 at 14h54 by AFP Margaret Atwood released the much-anticipated sequel to her award-winning 1985 novel “The Handmaid’s Tale” on Tuesday, with “The Testaments” set to become a similar smash. A terrifying, misogynistic dystopia set in the US northeast in the near-future, “The Handmaid’s Tale” has been turned into a major television series […]
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Published on 10.09.2019 at 14h54 by AFP Iran’s judiciary has been asked to investigate the death of a woman football fan, state media said Tuesday, after she reportedly self-immolated because she feared imprisonment for trying to enter a stadium. The country’s vice president for women and family affairs, Masoumeh Ebtekar, asked the judiciary chief to […]
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(Adds South African ministers, details) ABUJA/CAPE TOWN, Sept 10 (Reuters) – At least 640 Nigerians have signed up to take free flights home from South Africa after xenophobic attacks on foreigners, a spokeswoman for Nigeria’s president said on Tuesday. The flare-up in violence directed against mainly African foreigners has been widely condemned by South Africa’s […]
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Published on 10.09.2019 at 13h54 by AFP Italy’s new government faces a confidence vote in the upper house of parliament Tuesday, the last hurdle to overcome before the pro-European executive can get down to work. The coalition of the anti-establishment Five Star Movement and centre-left Democratic Party (PD), led by Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte, easily […]
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Published on 10.09.2019 at 13h54 by AFP A popular Russian rapper on Tuesday deleted a music video singing the praises of Moscow authorities ahead of contentious elections after it gathered almost 1.5 million dislikes on YouTube. Timati, a 36-year-old rapper known for his fervent support of President Vladimir Putin, posted the video, titled simply “Moscow”, […]
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Published on 10.09.2019 at 13h54 by AFP Incoming European Commission president Ursula von der Leyen said Tuesday that Brexit — “should it happen” — would be only the start of a new relationship between the UK and the EU, and “not the end”. In an implicit warning to Brexit supporters in the UK arguing for […]
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Published on 10.09.2019 at 12h54 by AFP Relatives and government officials attended a mass for Zimbabwe’s ex-president Robert Mugabe in Singapore on Tuesday after arriving in the country where he died to collect his body. Mugabe, a guerrilla leader who swept to power after Zimbabwe’s independence from Britain and went on to rule for 37 […]
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Beverlyn Nyamakwenje was fast asleep in her home in the east Johannesburg township of Katlehong when she was woken by gunshots. Instructed by her panicked father, the 19-year old Zimbabwean grabbed a few belongings and fled with him to a police station for safety. “We left our bags,” Nyamakwenje said. “We only took two minutes.” […]
Read More Published on 10.09.2019 at 12h54 by AFP Spanish NBA star and former Mediterranean rescue volunteer Marc Gasol called Tuesday for action to help migrants making the “almost suicidal” journey from Africa to Europe. A year ago Gasol volunteered aboard charity Open Arms’ ship Astral where he “learnt that human life is fragile, that sea waves […]
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Published on 10.09.2019 at 12h54 by AFP Pakistan’s foreign minister demanded Tuesday that the UN launch an international investigation into the situation in Indian Kashmir, warning of the risk of “genocide” in the Muslim-majority region. “The people of Indian Occupied Jammu and Kashmir are apprehending the worst,” Shah Mehmood Qureshi told the UN Human Rights […]
Read More JOHANNESBURG, Sept 10 (Reuters) – MTN Group Ltd said on Tuesday the chief executive officers of its Zambian and Cote d’Ivoire units would step down at the end of the month. Africa’s largest mobile phone operator said Zambia’s Philip van Dalsen, who joined MTN in 2012 as CEO of MTN Cyprus, would be replaced by […]
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