Disaster teams in KwaZulu-Natal stand ready to respond to persistent rainfall while drivers should approach roads with care. According to SAWS the Easter weekend will experience heavy rainstorms which pose a threat to multiple locations…
Coronavirus: Gabon bans entry of passengers from China
Gabon announced on Friday that it was suspending access to its territory for all passengers from China in an attempt to prevent any contamination by the coronavirus To date, no suspicious or reported cases have…
Sanad and Ethiopian Airlines join forces to create…
ADDIS ABABA, 8th February 2020 (WAM) - Sanad Aerotech, Sanad, the leading provider of aircraft engine maintenance, repair and overhaul, MRO, solutions and part of Sanad – a wholly owned subsidiary of Mubadala Investment Company,…
OPEC Committee Recommends Fresh 600,000bpd Oil
With crude oil prices shedding over $11 per barrel this year to $55, thus alarming the producers, a panel set up by the Organisation of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) and its allies have recommended a…
Unions slam SAA route cancellations, warn of ‘devastating’…
Two key unions at flag carrier SAA have slammed plans by the airline's business rescue practitioners to cancel a number of routes to save costs. "This will have a devastating impact on workers and their…
Coronavirus: Don’t panic, Chinese Ambassador tells Taraba govt
The Chinese Ambassador to Nigeria, Zhou Pingjian has advised the people of Taraba not to panic as the Chinese Government was working harder to curtail the spread of the deadly coronavirus. Pingjian gave the advice…
Tunisians protest Trump’s ‘Deal of Shame,’ call for…
Hundreds of people in Tunisia demonstrated on Wednesday in the centre of the capital Tunis against a recent Middle East plan by United States president Donald Trump. According to protesters, “Trump’s “Peace to Prosperity” plan”:https://www.africanews.com/2020/01/29/twitter-uses-apartheid-label-for-trump-s-israeli-palestine-plan/…
Equatorial Guinea donates $2m to China to help…
The government of Equatorial Guinea has announced a solidarity contribution of $2 million to China over the rampaging coronavirus outbreak. The decision was reached after a cabinet meeting this week. It was chaired by President…
Nigeria customs intercepts $8m cash stashed in car…
The Nigeria Customs Service (NCS) on Tuesday announced the seizure of over $8 million at the main airport in the commercial capital of Lagos. Hameed Ali, NCS comptroller-general, told the media at a press briefing…
Damning evidence of war crimes and other violations…
Turkish military forces and a coalition of Turkey-backed Syrian armed groups have displayed a shameful disregard for civilian life, carrying out serious violations and war crimes, including summary killings and unlawful attacks that have killed…
Turkish activists oppose amnesties for child rapists
Turkey’s ruling party has begun a second attempt at introducing a law to grant rapists amnesty as long as they marry their victim, four years after a similar bill sparked outrage at home and internationally.…
Turkey’s ‘marry your rapist’ bill is part of…
If the law is a reflection of normative attitudes toward women, gender and family, then Turkey’s most recent “marry your rapist” bill accurately captures the situation women face globally. The bill — first debated on…
Iran and the terrible, horrible, no good, very…
The deteriorating relationship between Washington and Tehran has created harsh conditions for daily life in Iran. For the past twelve months, the average Iranian has struggled to access basic necessities like food and medicine. Iranians…
New Ridiculous Law In Turkey Lets Child Rapists…
Officials in Turkey are set to convene for the proposed new law related to rape. However, before it could be fully discussed in the forum, people have already staged protests against the “Marry Your Rapist”…
11 Countries You Need To Visit In Africa
Africa is huge, like seriously, it’s a vast continent that’s so varied and filled with a melting pot of cultures, identities, beautiful nature and history. It’s a content that has so much diversity that is…
Human Rights: Racism in Turkey
In Turkey, racism and ethnic discrimination are present in its society and throughout its history, and this racism and ethnic discrimination is also institutional against the non- Muslim and non- Sunni minorities. This appears mainly…
Turkey and Hypocrisy after Hypocrisy
The Syrian province of Idlib, which is being subjected to massacres and destruction, is only 29 km from the Turkish border, which is closed to women and children trying to flee. On the other hand,…
Terror in Tehran: The nation is in shambles
The Islamic State’s June 7 coordinated assault on Iran’s Majles-e Shoraye Eslami (Islamic Consultative Assembly), also referred to as Iran’s Parliament, and the mausoleum of the Ayatollah Rohollah Khomeini, the Islamic Republic’s founder, in Tehran,…
Erdogan’s war crimes in Syria keep festering
Turkish-backed forces fighting Kurdish militias in north-east Syria have been accused of committing war crimes, with acts of brutality surfacing on mobile phone footage. The UN has warned that Turkey could be held responsible for…
