Love Binti empowers girls in East Africa and fights period poverty.

After discovering, during her volunteer work in 2015, that some girls in Kenya miss and even drop out of school because they cannot afford sanitary pads, Sara Liu (劉兆雯) began thinking about how she could help. Shortly after, she founded “Love Binti” in 2015. “As a girl growing up in Taiwan, I never imagined that…

Former first lady of Zambia  arrested on fraud charges.

Zambia’s former First Lady, Esther Lungu, and her daughter, Chiyeso Katete, have been arrested for the possession of properties suspected to be proceeds of crime. The two were arrested on Thursday in the capital, Lusaka, along with another close relative identified as Charles Phiri, authorities said. Ms Lungu “failed to give a reasonable explanation” of…

Estonia asserts that  no alternative plan if Ukraine falls.

Estonia sees itself as a frontline state, a NATO member where its border guards look across the Narva River at the Russian fortress of Ivangorod. This tiny Baltic state, once a part of the Soviet Union, is convinced that once the fighting stops in Ukraine, President Vladimir Putin will turn his attention to the Baltics,…

Rwanda: The Target of An Unprecedented Global Media Campaign.

Charles Onyango-Obbo recently wrote on his X handle about an unusual journalistic endeavor: “In an unprecedented move, 50 journalists from 17 media outlets in 11 (mostly European) countries got together on an alleged $2 million joint project to ‘investigate’ just one country – Rwanda. The media, including Der Spiegel (Germany), Le Monde (France), The Guardian…

ANC looks set to share power after historic election loss.

With most of the results now in from South Africa’s election, the long-ruling African National Congress (ANC), will have to contend with sharing power after a historic loss of its parliamentary majority. Counting in over 80% of voting districts is complete and the ANC’s share of the vote currently stands at 41%. Trailing behind are…

ANC is projected to lose majority.

Partial results from Thursday’s parliamentary election suggest that South Africa’s ruling party, the African National Congress (ANC), is likely to lose its majority in parliament for the first time since it came to power 30 years ago. With results from more than 50% of voting districts counted so far, the ANC is leading with 42%,…

Donald Trump  found guilty on all counts of hush-money trial.

Twelve jurors found former U.S. president Donald Trump guilty on all counts in his hush-money trial in New York, making him the first American president to be convicted of a felony in the nation’s history. The jury on Thursday convicted Trump of falsifying business records in connection with a hush-money payment made to porn star Stormy Daniels ahead…