OPINION | Could de Beers be the next Twitter?
By Savious Kwinika Johannesburg – IN 2022, Elon Musk paid $44 billion for Twitter, and having acquired such a... Read more
22 Nov, 2024
Shoot-out at South Sudan ex-spy chief’s home
Juba — Gunfire broke out Thursday at the home of South Sudan’s recently sacked intelligence chief, a military source... Read more
22 Nov, 2024
Japan government approves $140bn stimulus
Tokyo — Japan’s minority government signed off Friday on a $140-billion stimulus drive aimed at putting more money in... Read more
22 Nov, 2024
Mali junta appoints general to replace sacked civilian PM
Bamako — Mali’s junta on Thursday named General Abdoulaye Maiga as the new prime minister a day after sacking... Read more
22 Nov, 2024
World leaders split as ICC issues arrest warrant for Netanyahu
Paris — Israel and its allies denounced the International Criminal Court’s decision to issue an arrest warrant Thursday for... Read more
22 Nov, 2024
ICC issues arrest warrants for Netanyahu, Gallant, Deif
The Hague — The International Criminal Court on Thursday issued arrest warrants for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and... Read more
21 Nov, 2024
Philippine woman saved from death row ‘elated’
Indonesia — A Philippine woman sentenced to death in Indonesia on drug charges said Thursday that she was “elated”... Read more
21 Nov, 2024
Namibia’s liberation-era party – the next to fall?
Johannesburg – Will Namibia be the next country in southern Africa to kick out a political party in power... Read more
21 Nov, 2024
Military rule is on the rise in Africa – nothing good came from it in the past
Samuel Fury Childs Daly, University of Chicago In the last few years, there has been a spate of military... Read more
21 Nov, 2024
Tight security as Kenya’s embattled Ruto to address nation
Nairobi – Kenya deployed a heavy police presence Thursday ahead of President William Ruto’s state of the nation speech,... Read more
21 Nov, 2024
