Baiq Nuril Maknun, a teacher on the island of Lombok who was jailed after she tried to report sexual harassment, reacts during a press conference with Indonesia’s Law and Human Rights Minister Yasonna Laoly in Jakarta, Indonesia, July 8, 2019. REUTERS/Willy Kurniawan An Indonesian woman sentenced to prison for reporting her employer for sexual harassment

The Assembly of Heads of State and Government of the African Union (AU) has selected Ghana as the host country for the Secretariat of the African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA). The decision was announced yesterday at the 12th AU Extraordinary Summit held in Niamey, Niger, after Ghana beat off competition from countries including Egypt,

Photo/Reuters By Danny Palmer British Airways is facing the prospect of a £183.4m fine following a cyberattack against its systems last year. The proposed record penalty from the Information Commissioner’s Office comes following a data breach which is thought to have affected hundreds of thousands of customers who used the British Airways website between April

Chinese Vice President Wang Qishan delivers a speech at the opening of World Peace Forum at Tsinghua University, in Beijing, China, July 8, 2019. REUTERS/Jason Lee China and the rest of the world must co-exist, Chinese Vice President Wang Qishan said on Monday, in an indirect jab at the United States with which Beijing is

Greek opposition New Democracy conservative party leader Kyriakos Mitsotakis waves his supporters after casts his ballot at a polling station in Athens, on Sunday, July 7, 2019. Greeks are voting in the first parliamentary election since their country emerged from three successive international bailouts but is still struggling to emerge from a crippling nearly decade-long

Photo/AFP / ISSOUF SANOGO/Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari signs onto the landmark African trade deal at the AU summit in Niamey African nations will officially launch a landmark trade agreement at an African Union summit in Niger on Sunday, with the long sought-after agreement hailed as a historic step towards “peace and prosperity” across the continent.

Kenya’s foreign minister Monica Juma has attended that meeting as a last resort, dig deep and heavy-lifting towards the diplomatic cliff with Somalia. Mrs. Juma addressed that, Somalia is trying to take Kenya’s sea. Also, Juma says that the ICJ has no mandate to handle this. issue. Bear in mind this, plenty of political pundits

FILE – In this April 9, 2018, file photo, released by an official website of the office of the Iranian Presidency, President Hassan Rouhani listens to explanations on new nuclear achievements at a ceremony to mark “National Nuclear Day,” in Tehran, Iran. Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif acknowledged Monday, July 1, 2019, Iran had

Kenya’s President Uhuru Kenyatta (right) and Deputy President William Ruto Kenya’s ruling party appears to have cracked down the middle, creating factions that are aligned to either President Uhuru Kenyatta or Deputy President William Ruto . President Kenyatta has on occasion criticised his deputy for his early campaign to succeed him at the expense of

Photo/Somali Times Minister Awad sent warnings to several countries, Mogadishu, Somali Foreign Minister Ahmed Isse Awad announced that it has met with the ambassadors of the international presence in Mogadishu and Somali Minister of Foreign Minister Awad press conference held in the media has addressed a variety of topics as part of their between him