By Nahshon Musungu Burundi has bowed to pressure and released three schoolgirls who were detained for allegedly scribbling on President Pierre Nkurunzinza’s textbooks, Justice Minister Aimee Laurentine Kanyana told the BBC. The detention of the girls about two weeks ago on a charge of insulting the head of state had led to a social media campaign under the hashtag #FreeOurGirls… Read more »
EU ambassador to Zimbabwe, Timo Olkkonen has challenged government to bring tangible evidence that targeted sanctions imposed on some top government officials and associated entities were hurting ordinary people as often alleged. Addressing journalists and civil society activists at a MISA-Harare advocacy committee discussion in Harare on Tuesday, Olkkonen also dismissed continued government claims the travel and asset freeze on… Read more »
The Minister of Budget and National Planning, Udo Udoma, has explained why the federal government proposed a smaller 2019 budget than that of 2018. Speaking at a public hearing on the 2019 budget on Wednesday, Mr Udoma said the cut was necessary to manage the debt of the country. While the 2018 budget was N9.1 trillion, the 2019 budget was… Read more »
The issue that the North Atlantic Council of KarMUN 2019 is concerned with is the new route of migration that leads through the territory of Bosnia and Herzegovina and the effect it has on the country. The New Balkan route for migration opened because the route previously followed has been closed down by the governments of Hungary, Serbia and Croatia… Read more »
The Syrian Civil War is a conflict between the Dictatorship of Al Assad and rebel groups who want a different leader. There has been conflict with the refugees and where they will end up. Germany has stepped up and taken a lot of Syrian refugees into their country but other countries such as Greece and Spain do not have the… Read more »
By Julius Bizimungu President Paul Kagame on Thursday concluded a two-day working visit to Angola with a news conference in the capital Luanda alongside his Angolan counterpart, President João Lourenço. Kagame said that there were many things that bind Rwanda and Angola together through history, culture and ideologically. The Head of State talked about transformation, saying there was a belief… Read more »
By Kuzeeko Tjitemisa President Hage Geingob yesterday marked the 29th anniversary of Namibia’s break from South African colonial rule with a vow that Namibia has undergone tremendous transformation over the past 29 years. “The Namibia of 2019 is a far cry from the Namibia of 1990. This, coupled with our hard won freedom, is an achievement worthy of celebration,” Geingob… Read more »
By Nyasha Chingono The Ministry of Energy has blocked a plan by South African-owned Mining, Oil and Gas Services Company (MOGS) to construct a US$1 billion 550-kilometre fuel pipeline from Beira to Harare, arguing that the sector is oversubscribed and has no space for new players, an official has confirmed. Zimbabwe’s fuel sector, often described as opaque, is dominated by… Read more »
By Adérito Caldeira While national and international emergency team fly and swim against time to rescue about 350,000 Mozambicans still under siege for the fifth consecutive day in the districts of Buzi, Chibabava, Nhamatanda and Dondo, in Beira corpses accumulate in the mortuary because funerals are impossible. “People no longer take the bodies to the mortuary, they keep them at… Read more »