Botswana's ban on vegetable imports, many from South Africa, is working, says President Mokgweetsi Masisi. Masisi opened Parliament with a speech focussing on plans and successes, a little less than a year before he will seek re-election. Money from De Beers will be invested in tourism, and everyone will have internet access...
The military responded to attacks by anti-junta forces with air and artillery strikes. After four days of intense battles with the military in northern Myanmar’s Sagaing region, armed resistance groups have occupied the city of Kawlin, but residents and aid workers say the fighting has displaced 50,000 people, stoking fears of...
Acting Head of Statistics Indonesia (BPS) Amalia Adininggar Widyasanti reported that the rice production trend in Indonesia steadily decreased from 2021 to 2023, during the September to December period....
The true cost of dealing with plastic waste is 10 times higher for low-income countries than richer nations, despite them consuming the material far less, according to a new study....
Bangladesh police have arrested nearly 8,000 opposition figures in a nationwide crackdown since officers broke up a major rally in the capital a week ago, a report said Sunday. The sweeping wave of detentions comes ahead of a general election due in January....
Islamic rebels killed 11 farmers and abducted several others in Nigeria’s northeast, locals and authorities said Monday, the latest of several such attacks that analysts say threaten food supplies in the hard-hit region. The rebels attacked the farmers as they worked in their fields in Borno state’s Jere district Sunday...
Shavkat Mirziyoyev, the President of Uzbekistan, has recently addressed the ongoing challenges in Afghanistan, emphasizing that the strategic stability and security in the region hinge upon establishing peace and tranquillity in Afghanistan....
The number of people dead and missing due to Hurricane Otis, a Category 5 storm which hammered the Mexican Pacific resort city of Acapulco last week, has risen to 100, the government of the southern state of Guerrero said on Monday.
Almost all major river basins in Africa have become the epicentres for conflicts over the last 20 years, and agricultural yields on the continent could drop by up to 50 percent in the coming years owing to the drying up of ‘traditional’ water sources, thanks in part to effects climate change and degradation of the...
The Kazakh government's recent announcement of a ban on wearing the hijab headscarf in educational institutions has sparked fierce debate in the country. Officials stress the need to preserve secularism. Some girls are dropping out of school in protest. 70% of Kazakhstan are Muslim, mixed reactions to ban....
Head of the National Food Agency (Bapanas), Arief Prasetyo Adi, stated on Monday that the government is implementing a number of programs, including food aid, to counter the rising trend in rice prices....
FOR OVER three decades the Pacific island country of Tuvalu has implored industrialised countries to cut their greenhouse-gas emissions. For over three decades global temperatures have ticked up. Tuvalu’s government warns that its territory could slip underwater by the end of the century. “It’s a matter of disappearing...
Officials in the Democratic Republic of Congo say the East African Community Regional Force (EACRF) will leave the country by December 8, signalling a refusal to extend the troops' mandate....
Anti-French protests outside embassy compound in Niamey marked a new hostility towards Paris's operations in the Sahel....
The Ethiopian military has committed atrocities in a swath of the country where the internet has been blacked out for more than a month and a half, according to human rights monitors....
TT environmentalists and lawyers are lobbying to have the genocide of oceanic bodies and lifeforms for profit, or ecocide, made an eighth core crime along with murder, extermination, torture, acts of sexual violence and enforced disappearance of people.
Authorities in Guyana spoke of their ongoing border dispute with Venezuela, saying that they were seeking a permanent and unquestionable resolution to the issue. They also spoke in favour of accepting established international borders, a feature of nations in the western hemisphere which has allowed them to maintain peace and...
The European Union, EU, has provided a financing of 3.1 million euros to “Les Soleils du Benin”, an energy company, in the framework of “Initiative de Financement l’Electrification [Electrification Financing Initiative], to provide electricity to 3,000 households in Benin.
Indian authorities have instituted mass testing to halt the spread of the deadly Nipah virus, which has killed two people in the southern state of Kerala....
In a sign of things to come Russia has sent the first non-ice class Aframax oil tanker into the Arctic. Hampered by Western sanctions a desperate Russia has decided to forgo long standing practices regarding ice-protection in an effort to reroute ever-larger amounts of crude oil to China, experts say....
Deadly floods triggered by a powerful storm have left a trail of destruction in eastern Libya. Thousands of bodies were recovered in one city alone after dams collapsed and wiped out entire neighborhoods....
An official inquiry into the Roman Catholic Church in Switzerland has identified nearly 1,000 cases of sexual abuse since 1950....
Malaysia is planning to ban the export of rare earth raw materials and support the development of the domestic rare earth industry, the country’s Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim said on September 11....
Montenegrin police began an investigation after robbers tunnelled into the Higher Court’s storage rooms in Podgorica, where trial evidence including seized drugs and weapons was reportedly being kept....
Dr Omar Alieu Touray, President of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) Commission, has approved the deployment of 15-member Long-Term Election Observers (LTOs) to monitor key stages in the upcoming general election in Liberia. ...
