[Africom] Germany -- Senior fellows from the George C. Marshall European Center for Security Studies visited U.S. Africa Command headquarters on Feb. 4, for a strategic overview of the command's mission and its partnership-focused approach to security in Africa.
PLUS is pushing drivers to use its travel app ahead of festive traffic surge.
UK’s Home Secretary has announced that three African countries will have their visas to Britain downed if they don’t cooperate on returning deported illegal migrants and criminals to their countries of origin.
[Daba Finance] Zijin Mining is finalizing a $4 billion all-cash acquisition of Allied Gold Corporation, tightening its grip on African gold output as prices surge.
[Daba Finance] Canal+ outlined the first benefits of its acquisition of MultiChoice, pointing to Africa as the main source of cost savings and growth.
[Afrobarometer] Assessments of election quality have worsened over the past decade.
On this week’s episode of “The Daily Show,” Jon Stewart covered the conservative outrage over Bad Bunny’s Super Bowl Halftime Show. “Mr. Bunny killed it, despite being trapped in an inescapable sugarcane hedge maze,” Stewart joked. “He had Lady Gaga, Ricky Martin and The
[The Conversation Africa] Adults think we know what is best for children. We have responsibility for them - feeding them, clothing them, educating them, protecting them, loving them - but we also assume rights over them, and on their behalf. Adults make rules (including laws
[The Conversation Africa] The climate fiction movie The Day After Tomorrow, released in 2004, popularised the devastating effects of sudden climate change on planet Earth. The plot dramatises the consequences of a shut-down in an ocean current, and features the Northern
Now Myanmar’s university system is in shambles.
Relief in UK as Donald Trump back stepped and ended supporting the Labor government’s Chagos islands deal with Mauritius in the Indian Ocean, including the joint US/UK Diego Garcia base, when only a couple of weeks ago the US president described the whole issue as a “Great
Argentina’s Economy Ministry published the instrument menu for the Feb. 11 debt auction, closely watched by markets given the size of maturities: nearly ARS 10 trillion (around USD 7 million), about ARS 9 trillion of which is held by private investors.
Uruguay’s President Yamandú Orsi tested negative for chickenpox after undergoing screening prompted by a confirmed case within the official delegation that returned from a trip to China, the Ministry of Public Health (MSP) said on Monday.
Prosecutors won't be able to use lyrics from Durk's “Hanging with Wolves” track that talk about catching a flight
Indonesia has stepped up diplomatic messaging on Gaza in recent months.
The White Paper said that Hong Kong's practice of safeguarding national security had consolidated the security foundation of the city's one country, two systems governance model.
The FBI on Monday said it was "not aware of any continued communication between" Nancy Guthrie's family and her suspected kidnappers, with a reported ransom deadline having already passed. "For more than a week, FBI agents, analysts, and professional staff have worked around
Last month was the world’s fifth-warmest January on record, the EU’s Copernicus Climate Change Service (C3S) reported, even as sharp cold spells hit large parts of the Northern Hemisphere in the second half of the month. Global mean surface air temperature reached 12.95°C,
Edmund McMillen and Tyler Glaiel's cat combat game launches on Tuesday, February 10.
Experts have said that restorative justice should not be used as a mechanism to bin cases.
Three civilians have already been charged for their alleged role in the drone scandal.
Alongside traditional estates, we now leave behind digital remains after we die, from social media accounts and emails to AI-generated recreations of ourselves. Our digital legacies are creating new and potentially troubling questions about autonomy and dignity after death. Dr.
Brenton Tarrant was pleased when police charged him on terrorism offences.
The ghosts of the old guard won’t be on the ballot in Dhaka this week, but they are haunting every corner of the campaign trail. When Bangladeshis head to the polls on February 12, they are performing a high-stakes autopsy on a collapsed autocracy and attempting to breathe life
Feb 10 - Former lawyers for the white supremacist who killed 51 Muslim worshippers in New Zealand seven years ago told a court on Tuesday that he showed signs of anxiety during his original trial but did not appear to be depressed, media reported.
Every crystal's shape is a mirror of the internal arrangement of its molecules, but the molecules in photoswitchable crystals can expand, twist and change properties—from their color to their electronic conductivity—with a simple flash of light. This has made them highly
Having a two-thirds majority allows Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi's government to override decisions by the upper house, where her coalition is in a minority.
MANILA, Feb 10 (Reuters) - The Philippines' ambassador to Washington said on Tuesday that the country is seeing some signs that China is willing to work with Manila and "isolate" theSouth China Sea disputes which havehurt relations between the two nations. Ambassador Jose
The White House agreed to carve out exemptions for US-produced cotton from Bangladesh.
The affected stalls included clothing shops and were single-storey units with corrugated metal roofing.
Smooth everyday services, a safe environment, and small, friendly encounters with locals are key factors that increase the happiness of international students in Finland. This is shown by a recent study conducted at the University of Oulu Business School, Finland, which
The outcome is Liberal Democratic Party's best in its history.
YouTube star James Stephen Donaldson, better known as Mr. Beast, has acquired youth-focused financial services app Step.
While much of Europe and the US braced against frigid cold, the Southern Hemisphere faced extreme heat, wildfires and floods.
Input. Output. Targets met. Value created. Performance delivered. Strip work down to its essentials and for many people, this is what remains: a machine-like focus on producing, performing and optimizing.
Artists are departing from the talent management company Wasserman Group after founder and CEO Casey Wasserman appeared in the latest release of the Epstein files. Wasserman was long known to have traveled on convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein's plane in 2002, but the
Gains across world markets have brought some calm to trading floors after last week's asset-wide rollercoaster ride.
The application of modulated UV-C light to guavas—emitted in pulses or cycles rather than continuously—combated anthracnose. This fungal disease is caused by microorganisms belonging to the Colletotrichum gloeosporioides complex and triggers dark lesions on the fruit after
As the US races to deploy containerized drone swarms as a key future warfare element, the effort reveals questions about whether drones are a real revolution or a workaround for institutional limits. This month, The War Zone (TWZ) reported that the US military has launched a
Sabah continues to be identified as the region with the most active seismic activity.
It's the end of an era: The Free Sky Ferreira account is deactivating. Since 2021, the Instagram page has been advocating for the pop star's release from her contract with Capitol Records so the long-awaited Masochism could come out. In Nov. 2023, Ferreira was dropped by the
The Justice Department recently revealed emails exchanged by Wasserman founder Casey Wasserman and convicted sex offender Ghislaine Maxwell
Americans love dogs. Nearly half of U.S. households have one, and practically all owners see pets as part of the family—51% say pets belong "as much as a human member." The pet industry keeps generating more and more jobs, from vets to trainers, to influencers. Schools cannot
China is urging its biggest banks to curb their exposure to US Treasuries, a calculated intervention in the plumbing of global finance that reveals something uncomfortable about where Asia believes risk now sits. Chinese regulators have instructed large banks to stop adding to
“To be nobody-but-yourself — in a world which is doing its best, night and day, to make you everybody else — means to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight,” E. E. Cummings wrote in his timeless summons for the courage to be yourself. But what does it really