South Africa president faces up to poor poll result.

South Africa’s President Cyril Ramaphosa has admitted his African National Congress (ANC) party has suffered a challenging election result, after the party lost its majority for the first time since apartheid ended 30 years ago. The ANC, once led by Nelson Mandela, won 159 seats in the 400-seat parliament in Wednesday’s election, down from 230…

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Over 120 Palestinian bodies recovered 2 days after Israeli forces left Jabalia camp.

Palestinian rescue teams have recovered 50 more bodies from the rubble in the Jabalia refugee camp in northern Gaza, bringing the total number of bodies recovered following the withdrawal of Israeli forces from the area to more than 120. Palestine’s official Wafa news agency reported that rescue and civil defense teams have recovered the bodies of 50 Palestinians on…

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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…

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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…

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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,…

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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…

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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…

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