Politics

The United States took a significant step on Tuesday towards a ban on the popular TikTok app via a White House-backed bill, amid growing Western distrust of the Chinese social network. US National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan said in a statement that he “welcomed” a bill tabled the same day …

“At the current rate, UN Women is setting gender equality 300 years from now, as it is moving further and further away,” denounced Antonio Guterres in a speech at the opening of two weeks of debates in New York of the Commission on the Status of Women (CSW) and two …

The number of pregnant women and nursing mothers suffering from acute malnutrition has increased by 25% since 2020 in 12 countries at the “epicenter” of the world food crisis, UNICEF alerted in a report this Monday, underlining the deleterious consequences on their children. The report, based on analysis of data …

South Africa’s President Cyril Ramaphosa has appointed former mayor, Kgosientsho Ramokgopa, to the newly created position of electricity minister in an effort to address the country’s long-running power crisis. The new minister faces two vast challenges. Power cuts of up to 12 hours a day – the government has declared …

South African President Cyril Ramaphosa will announce changes to the national executive on Monday, presidential spokesman Vincent Magwenya said on Sunday. “The president is finalising his reconfiguration of the national executive,” Magwenya said at a news briefing, adding that he was taking into account the swearing in of some members …

Kenya’s First Lady Rachel Ruto has declared national prayers against homosexuality in the country, saying the family unit was under attack. Mrs Ruto said the country cannot condone the Supreme Court ruling last month that upheld the LGBTQ community’s right of association. “We should not even try to talk about …

Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni has defended his government’s decision to terminate the operations of the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) in the country. He was responding to a journalist questioning Uganda’s decision to close OHCHR operations, during a press conference at the Uganda-South Africa …

The parents of an obese British teenager who died aged 16 at the family home in particularly squalid conditions were sentenced on Wednesday to more than six years in prison for manslaughter by gross negligence. Kaylea Titford, 16, was found in conditions described in court as “unbecoming of any animal”, …

Bulgarian justice went on Wednesday against a judgment of the Court of Justice of the EU (CJEU) by refusing to issue a birth certificate to the stateless daughter of a lesbian couple. The Supreme Court overturned the decision of the Administrative Court of Sofia dated May 2022, which obliged the …

The US has congratulated Nigerian President-elect Bola Tinubu and citizens following the just-concluded general elections. “This competitive election represents a new period for Nigerian politics and democracy,” US State Department spokesman Ned Price said in a statement. The State Department called on the electoral body to improve on the highlighted …