Category: Int’l News
South Africa’s deputy police chief resigns after being charged with sexual offences
South Africa’s deputy police chief has resigned three weeks after he was charged with sexual offences. A lawyer representing Lt Gen Shadrack Sibiya submitted his resignation letter at his disciplinary hearing on Monday, a police spokesperson said. Sibiya, 59, is also accused of having links to organised crime bosses – allegations which led to him…
Spanish PM Sánchez calls early election after housing protests
Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez has called an early election for 29 November after recent defeats on legislation aimed at addressing the country’s housing crisis. Speculation about a snap election had been building over the weekend after parliament rejected two decree laws put forward by the minority government to protect tenants in the rental market….
Bombs preventing rescue of kidnapped youths, Nigerian police say
Nigerian police say they have located a camp where 19 national youth service recruits are being held by gunmen but cannot move in as they believe the place is mined with explosives. Police Commissioner Audu Bosso said drones helped locate the camp where the prospective National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) members were taken after being…
INTERNATIONAL NEWS
Anthony Joshua’s driver attempted overtake before fatal crash, trial hears
Uganda judges push back against lawyers’ bid to scrap ‘colonial titles’
Uganda’s judiciary has pushed back against a directive by the country’s lawyers’ association instructing its members to stop addressing judges as “My Lord” or “My Lady” and to abandon the longstanding practice of bowing before them. In the directive, the Uganda Law Society (ULS) said such “feudal and colonial honorifics” elevate judicial officers above citizens,…
The African fishermen who blame Chinese trawlers for their woes
The villagers are shouting as they haul on the ropes to pull the net in from the sea. It takes a big collective effort of a dozen or more people to drag the wriggling mass of snapper, mackerel, barracuda, rays, and many more fish besides, onto the beach. Shore fishing like this is a tradition…
South African leader warns anti-migrant protesters ahead of unofficial deadline
People intending to protest against migrants should do so without “intimidation, threats or ultimatums”, President Cyril Ramaphosa has warned on the eve of an unofficial deadline for undocumented foreigners to leave South Africa. Several thousand citizens of other African countries have already left the country in recent weeks fearing violence. One undocumented Malawian told the…