CAIRO – Egyptians voted yesterday for a new Senate in an upper house election seen unlikely to revive vibrant political life under President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi’s rule. The two-day vote for 200 of the Senate’s 300 seats will be largely contested by candidates backing Sisi, who has quietened most opposition within and outside the legislature....
BAMAKO – New judges at Mali’s Constitutional Court were sworn in Monday in the capital Bamako, after being appointed in a bid to end a months-long political crisis in the fragile country. The nine new judges – six men and three women – took office during a ceremony attended by embattled President Ibrahim Boubacar Keita,...
HARARE – Zimbabwe’s main opposition coalition on Monday said it had not been allowed to meet with special envoys from South Africa sent in response to a mounting crackdown on dissent. South Africa appointed two special envoys to go to neighbouring Zimbabwe last week after authorities banned anti-government demonstrations and arrested around 20 protesters for...
Hamukoto Pohamba, okwa dja momhangulilo yaMangestalata onga omulumenhu omumangululwa eshi oshibofa shedengo osho a li a patululilwa komukulukadi waye muApiilili sha kufwa mo. Hamukoto Pohamba omona womupresidente mukulu, Hifikepunye Pohamba.Omukadi – Albertina Pohamba – okwa kufa mo oshibofa konima yokuyandja oumbangi komesho yamangestalata, Celma Amadhila onghela. Albertina okwa lombwela omhangu kutya ita twikile vali noihokolola...
The truth about inspiration is that it is a full circle. We find it in the places we least expect, from the people around us. I recently learned about the four attachment styles that exist from a girl I had come to admire, Grace Mackinza. Every one of us has a story to tell, and...
Omapumba and Tuck Lyn Bucks respectively won the netball and football categories of the 13th edition of the Okozonduzu open tournament at Okondjatu on Sunday. The one-weekend tournament saw 24 football and 20 netball teams vie for cash prizes of N$35 000 in total. In the first netball semi-final Tuck Lyn Bucks defeated Bogolos from...
The tension between the PSL and Safa was getting out of hand, but I’m elated that the right decision to restart the football season was taken in the end. The sense of anticipation about the resumption of football was palpable. When Irvin Khoza announced that the 2019/20 PSL season was set to resume this coming...
WUHAN – Fans dancing at an electronic music festival, long lines at breakfast stands, gridlocked traffic – the scenes in coronavirus ground zero Wuhan these days would have been unthinkable in January. The central Chinese city’s recovery after a 76-day lockdown was lifted in April has brought life back onto its streets. The queues snaking...
TEHRAN – Iran is watching developments in Lebanon closely, wary of losing any of its hard-won influence after a deadly mega-blast in Beirut sparked angry demands for reforms to its delicately balanced system. One week on from the chemical explosion that wreaked destruction across swathes of the Lebanese capital, the strategic eastern Mediterranean country is...
WASHINGTON – US Secret Service agents shot and wounded a man who was apparently armed outside the White House on Monday, President Donald Trump, after being briefly whisked away in the middle of a press conference. A 51-year-old male approached a Secret Service officer standing at the corner of 17th Street and Pennsylvania Avenue, one...