Politics

More than 10 million Sudanese, or 20% of the population, have been driven from their homes since the war there began, the International Organization for Migration (IOM) said on Tuesday, as the world’s largest displacement crisis continues to worsen. The number is the latest dire figure out of the east …

Rwanda’s provisional election results declare current President Paul Kagame the winner of the presidential elections, with most votes counted. President Kagame is on course to extend his 24-year rule by another five years in a landslide victory. He has 99.15% of the vote so far, with about 79% of ballots …

Elon Musk plans to donate about $45 million a month to a group supporting Donald Trump’s presidential campaign, to which other tech industry figures contribute, the Wall Street Journal reported Monday. Created at the end of May, according to documents published by the Federal Election Commission (FEC), “America PAC” is …

Abortion is now decriminalized in 14 of the 32 states of Mexico, after the vote this Monday, July 15, by the Parliament of the State of Puebla (center), which follows two decisions by the Supreme Court. By 29 votes for and 7 against, local deputies approved a reform of the …

At least 22 children have died and 132 others have been injured after a school building collapsed in Nigeria’s central Plateau state, local officials say. Saint Academy in the state capital Jos caved in while students were in class on Friday morning. Children were left trapped under the debris. Volunteers …

At least five people were killed and 20 others injured when a car bomb exploded outside a restaurant in the Somali capital Mogadishu on Sunday evening. “It comes as they were watching the final of the Euro 2024 football tournament on TV,” police said, blaming Islamist insurgents. The bomb destroyed …

Kenya’s police chief Japhet Koome has resigned, following weeks of violent protests against proposed tax hikes in which at least 40 people died. Human rights groups have accused police of shooting dozens of protestors, some of them fatally, and abducting or arbitrarily arresting hundreds more. The resignation comes a day …

Kenyan President William Ruto on Thursday has sacked his entire cabinet apart from the foreign minister, bowing to pressure from nationwide protests that have created the biggest crisis of his two-year presidency. “I will immediately engage in extensive consultations across different sectors and political formations and other Kenyans, both in …

A 43-year-old black man died on June 30 in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, United States, after being tackled to the ground by hotel security guards. In a video filmed by a witness, the victim can be seen struggling and screaming “help” while four men hold her on the ground, asking her to …

A Ugandan TikToker has been sentenced to six years in prison, for insulting the country’s President Yoweri Museveni, the first lady and the army chief, local media reported. Edward Awebwa, 24, was charged with hate speech and spreading “misleading and malicious” information against President Yoweri Museveni, First Lady Janet Museveni …