The African National Congress retained control of South Africa’s parliament but its share of the vote fell, a rebuke from voters fed up with corruption scandals and racial inequalities that remain entrenched a generation after the party took power. Provisional results on Saturday showed the ruling party secured 57.51% of the votes in Wednesday’s general

Vice President Pence renewed his calls on Friday for Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.) to be removed from her post on the House Foreign Affairs Committee over her comments about Israel and Venezuela. “Ilhan Omar has made statements, anti-Semitic comments against our most cherished ally, Israel, that ought to be rejected by every American,” Pence said

Director of Public Prosecution Noordin Haji Majority of the staff are from the Domestic Taxes Department while the others are from the Customs and Border Control Department. The officers are both senior and middle-level management and have ‘betrayed the trust’ of the Kenyan public and by extension the institution of the KRA. Close to 100

The Nimitz-class aircraft carrier USS Abraham Lincoln approaches the Mubarak Peace Bridge as it transits the Suez Canal in Egypt, May 9, 2019. Picture taken May 9, 2019. Dan Snow/U.S. Navy/Handout via REUTERS Iran’s Revolutionary Guards said on Friday Tehran would not negotiate with the United States and a senior cleric warned that a U.S.

FILE PHOTO – U.S. President Donald Trump waits to welcome Slovakia’s Prime Minister Peter Pellegrini at the White House in Washington, U.S., May 3, 2019. REUTERS/Clodagh Kilcoyne U.S. President Donald Trump on Thursday urged Iran’s leadership to sit down and talk with him about giving up Tehran’s nuclear program and said he could not rule

The president of oil-rich South Sudan said on Wednesday that the formation of a unity government should be delayed by at least a year, despite a May 12 deadline in a September peace agreement that ended the civil war. President Salva Kiir said the government had been unable to disarm, house, train and integrate South

FILE PHOTO: Political activist Ahmed Mansoor speaks to Reuters in Dubai November 30, 2011. REUTERS/Nikhil Monteiro//File Photo The United Arab Emirates (UAE) dismissed claims by U.N. human rights experts that prominent pro-democracy campaigner Ahmed Mansoor may be suffering treatment amounting to torture, state news agency WAM reported on Wednesday. Mansoor, jailed for 10 years in

Iranian president gives 60-day deadline to world powers to protect Tehran’s interests in nuclear deal Iran’s President Hassan Rouhani on Wednesday threatened to resume high level enrichment of uranium if his country’s interests in the nuclear deal with world powers are not protected within 60 days. His remarks came at a speech broadcast on national

The more you know, the more you know that you didn’t know! “I am African, not because I was born in Africa but because Africa is born in me.” – Kwame Nkrumah 1. Africa is the second largest continent in the world both in size and in population. 2. Africa is home to over 1

Ambulances are parked outside a cordoned off area as rescue workers and a bomb disposal team survey the site after a blast in Lahore, Pakistan May 8, 2019. REUERS/Mohsin Raza A bomb targeting Pakistani police outside a Sufi shrine in the city of Lahore on Wednesday killed nine people, officials said. The blast, a day