JOHANNESBURG – Angolan billionaire Isabel dos Santos, who is facing a massive corruption investigation, stepped down from the board of the country’s largest mobile phone operator Unitel on Tuesday, citing a “climate of permanent conflict” among administrators. Described by Forbes magazine as the wealthiest woman in Africa, she is accused of diverting billions of dollars...
ABIDJAN – Ivory Coast’s former first lady Simone Gbagbo on Tuesday asked President Alassane Ouattara, her exiled husband’s arch-foe, to grant the ex-strongman amnesty ahead of presidential elections in October. The former first lady and her husband Laurent Gbagbo were both charged over violence that killed some 3 000 people in 2010-2011 after Gbagbo refused...
Bamako – Mali’s largest jail is a squalid and overcrowded colonial-era throwback that in theory is an open invitation to coronavirus. Instead, staff at Bamako Central Prison say that so far they have kept the dreaded virus at bay, thanks to time-honoured techniques of hygiene and self-help. Outside the penitentiary’s ochre walls, the Malian capital...
Oshipuna shoobiliona moAngola Isabel dos Santos, shoka sha taalela omakonaakono molwa okulunga ta itapula nokudhengele ondhi peho, osha ikutha miilonga yemwene onga gumwe gwomaanani yehangano lyomakwatathano moAngola oUnitel. Nguka okwa ti ota thigi po oshipundi shoka omolwa oku ha uvathana naaleli ooyakwawo yehangano ndoka, itaaku ya pehulilo. Isabel omwana gwomupresidente omukulu gwaAngola Jose Eduardo dos...
RUNDU – Wokusika komurongo varugani wondango zodoropa zaRundu, muna hamene mukwatelimo kurona pamberewa Sam Nekaro, kuna kara ngesi mevango lyokulikarera pwavene kutunda tupu moutano una puko. Munambudi ogu kahuyungire kumwe naSam Nekaro nkera, ogu kayinkondopere asi wokusika komurongo varugani wondango zodoropa ngesi kuna kara mevango lyavelike kwato kuvatarerapo vantu peke. “Ame kanikere namukwetu mosondaha ogu...
Hileni Mwandingi GOBABIS – Kugava mukisi ogu guna kutundilira monda zosirongo ndi asi modoropa zaGobabis kamukere mukadi gonomvhura 44 yitundwamo eyi kavageve mosondaha kongurova kutundilira kwaministera goukanguki kuna kureta ekankamo momukunda gwaOmaheke. Nampili ngomu yiana kara asi ogu gwautatu vana gwana Covid -19 kuna kara asi age yige nye gokuhova ana kara asi mutungimo momukunda...
RIO DE JANEIRO – Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro has said it is a “lie” that fires are ravaging the Amazon rainforest, despite data from his own government showing the number of blazes is rising. The far-right leader has faced international condemnation for presiding over huge fires and rising deforestation in the Amazon – criticism he...
WASHINGTON – Presidential hopeful Joe Biden named Senator Kamala Harris, a former rival in the White House race, as his running mate Tuesday, marking a historic first for American women of colour. Biden’s announcement capped a months-long search for a Democratic partner to challenge President Donald Trump in November. Harris, who would become America’s first...
BANGKOK – Leaderless, social media-savvy and inspired by Hong Kong’s young activists, Thailand’s budding pro-democracy movement is intent on overhauling the government, rewriting the constitution and even taking on a law that shields the monarchy. The kingdom has seen a decades-long spin-cycle of coups and violent street protests led by well-funded veterans for or against...
BEIRUT – Tanya can’t be alone in a room. Carla, for days, thought a war was starting. Survivors of Beirut’s August 4 blast are still in shock over a disaster that disfigured their city. The earth-shaking explosion killed 171 people and wounded more than 6 000, a sickening blow to a country already in crisis....