The wife of ex-Malaysian prime minister Najib Razak has been sentenced to ten years in prison on each of three bribery charges. Rosmah Mansor was found guilty on three charges of soliciting and receiving bribes to help a company win a 1.25bn ringgit project ($279m, £240m). The High Court said the jail terms would run...
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Father arrested after his 9-year-old son drives to school
A nine-year-old in school uniform was stopped by police in Kenya’s capital, Nairobi, while driving to school with his father in the front passenger seat. The saloon car was stopped before it entered a private school in Athi River, on the fringes of the city, after police gave chase when the boy accelerated after being...
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Niger begins making artificial rain to curb drought
Niger has deployed rainmaking technology aimed at alleviating the effects of drought in the country, weather authorities said Thursday. The desert country has faced a food crisis for years because of extended dry spells. The head of the national meteorology institute Katiellou Gaptia Lawan told AFP news agency, “we had to do something about this...
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Ethiopian Airlines suspends two pilots who slept during a flight
On Monday, August 15, the Ethiopian Airlines flight from Khartoum was scheduled to land at the Addis Ababa airport in Ethiopia. Flights from the Sudanese capital to Addis Ababa usually last for about two hours. But there was drama when the flight was still 37,000ft even when it got to its arrival location. There was...
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MALI: Convalescing PM Abdoulaye Maiga, appointed interim prime minister
Minister of Administration and Decentralization since June 2021 and, cumulatively, spokesperson for the Government since December of the same year, Colonel Abdoulaye Maïga, 41, has just been appointed interim Prime Minister. The appointment recorded by presidential decree broadcast on Sunday August 21, 2022 through Malian national television (ORTM) follows the health problems of Prime Minister...
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Why Emirates is suspending flights to Nigeria from September 1
Starting September 1, 2022, Emirates Airlines announced that they are going to suspend all flights to Nigeria. A leading airline company, Emirates has operations in over 130 destinations. Explaining why they took such a decision, the airline said they are limiting further losses and impact on operational costs that continue to accumulate in the Nigerian...
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Kenya election result: William Ruto wins presidential poll
Deputy President William Ruto has won Kenya’s presidential election, the electoral commission chairman has said, amid dramatic scenes. He narrowly beat his rival, Raila Odinga, taking 50.4% of the vote. The announcement was delayed amid scuffles and allegations of vote-rigging by Mr Odinga’s campaign. Four of the seven members of the electoral commission refused...
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Suu Kyi gets another 6 years on corruption charges
Former leader of Myanmar Aung San Suu Kyi received an additional 6 year jail sentence by a junta court on Monday. She has been charged with a total of 19 charges, which includes incitement against the military, breaking Covid-19 rules, and illegally importing walkie-talkies. She has, however, denied these charges, which are widely attributed to...
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Kenya’s vote count underway, as Ruto and Odinga eye presidency.
Kenyans took to the polls on Tuesday 9th August to elect their next president in an election deemed to be a close contest. As outgoing president Uhuru Kenyatta’s second term comes to an end, he expressed how smooth the exercise was and urged voters to come out and vote immediately after casting his ballot. The...
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Ex-child bride among 3 women executed in Iran for murdering their husbands
Iranian authorities put three women to death on Wednesday for murdering their husbands, a human rights charity says. According to the Iran Human Rights Group they were among 32 people executed in the past week alone. A former child bride, convicted of later killing the man she had married at the age of 15, was...