NAIROBI – Tanzanian politicians are in shock over the massacre of hundreds of young protesters during the recent election, insiders told AFP. However, they are too afraid to speak out, as a tiny cabal of hardliners around the president takes control. Gruesome images of dead Tanzanians have flooded the internet in the wake of the...
Any nuclear weapons testing anywhere in the world would be detrimental to the world’s peace and security and would be make the reduction of atomic bombs more difficult. This is the message from Robert Floyd, executive secretary of the Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty Organisation (CTBTO), the organisation responsible for implementing the treaty (CTBT) to ban all...
MAGDEBURG – A Saudi doctor went on trial in Germany yesterday, accused of driving an SUV through a Christmas market, killing six people and wounding more than 300 in a rampage that shocked the nation. Taleb Jawad al – Abdulmohsen, a 51-year-old psychiatrist, was arrested next to the battered vehicle after the attack on 20...
KANO – Clashes between rival jihadist factions in northeast Nigeria have claimed some 200 lives in the restive Lake Chad area, intelligence, militia and jihadist, sources told AFP yesterday. Fighting between Boko Haram and rival militants from the Islamic State West Africa Province (ISWAP) group broke out in Dogon Chiku on the shores of Lake...
AKSU – Aksu has earned a reputation for producing sweet, juicy, large and fragrant apples; however, little is known that this land of orchards was once a desert. Aksu is in China’s Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region. A recent trip to Aksu provided New Era’s Edward Mumbuu and over 20 other African journalists and editors an...
SYDNEY – Australian households will be able to access three hours a day of free solar power under an energy-saving programme that the government unveiled yesterday and will begin next year. “We want to see the benefits of renewable energy flow to all,” Energy Minister Chris Bowen told national broadcaster ABC. In a statement, he...
ABUJA – Nigerians across the religious spectrum yesterday pushed back on US President Donald Trump’s threats of military intervention over the killing of Christians in the country. Africa’s most populous country, which is roughly evenly split between a mostly Christian south and Muslim-majority north, is home to myriad conflicts, which experts say kill both Christians...
WASHINGTON – US president Donald Trump said on Thursday that he has ordered the Pentagon to start nuclear weapons testing to equal China and Russia, just minutes before opening a high-stakes summit with Chinese leader Xi Jinping. The move comes after Russian president Vladimir Putin said on Wednesday that Moscow had successfully tested a nuclear-capable,...
DAR ES SALAAM – Tanzania was under a communications blackout on Thursday, a day after elections turned into violent chaos with unconfirmed reports of many dead. President Samia Suluhu Hassan had sought to solidify her position and silence criticism within her party in the virtually uncontested polls, with the main challengers either jailed or barred...
BRUSSELS – The European Union on Wednesday denounced what it said was the “brutality” of Sudan’s Rapid Support Forces (RSF) paramilitary group, which recently captured the key city of El-Fasher. The statement came as reports emerged of mass atrocities there and the killing of five Red Crescent volunteers in Kordofan. “Civilians being targeted based on...