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Last updated: 13 hours ago A fire damaged the front doors and exterior of Australia’s Old Parliament House in Canberra on Thursday. The cause of the fire wasn’t immediately clear, although a group of protesters championing Indigenous rights had been gathering outside the building. Some protesters told media the fire began as a traditional smoking ceremony that got out of… Read More

Last updated: 13 hours ago Thousands of Sudanese demonstrators joined new protests Thursday against the army’s October 25 coup, braving tear gas, the cutting of communication links and a tight lockdown in the capital, AFP correspondents reported. Demonstrators reached within a few hundred metres (yards) of the presidential palace in Khartoum, headquarters of military chief General Abdel Fattah al-Burhan, before… Read More

Last updated: 7 hours ago The coffin of Desmond Tutu arrives at St. George’s Cathedral in Cape Town.  His remains will lie in state to allow mourners to pay their last respects.  A memorial service was held in Johannesburg’s St. Mary’s Cathedral.  Tutu, whose fearless campaign helped end South Africa’s brutal apartheid regime and brought democracy to the country, died… Read More

South Africans are describing the late Archbishop Desmond Tutu as an irreplaceable fearless leader. Delivering the annual Desmond Tutu Lecture at the University of the Western Cape in 2011, Archbishop Desmond Tutu strongly criticized South Africa’s former President Jacob Zuma for promoting his own interests. Tutu did not shy away from slamming former President, Thabo Mbeki’s administration on delaying the… Read More

Authorities in Cape Verde have imposed a ban on end-of-year parties as they scramble to contain a surge in coronavirus cases. On Tuesday, the country’s prime minister, Ulisses Correia e Silva, announced that the country was returning to a contingency situation, requiring a negative test for access to restaurants and banning gatherings. César Frederico who operates a bar in the… Read More

Participants in the “National Conference on Refoundation”, presented as the final phase of consultations prior to elections and a return of civilians to power in Mali, proposed Thursday in Bamako to extend the current transition from “six months to five years”. After successive coups in August 2020 and May 2021, Mali’s ruling military had pledged, under pressure from the Economic… Read More

Last updated: 12 minutes ago The ancient bathhouses of Syria’s second city are filling up again, not because of a revived fad, but as a result of power cuts that have made hot showers a luxury. With their marble steam rooms, hexagonal fountains and distinctive domes, Aleppo’s boathouses have for centuries served as a social hub where men come together… Read More

On the trails of the Central African Republic, danger often comes from all sides but recently, the presence of mines has become an additional threat hanging over humanitarian aid workers and residents. In tank, by car or on foot nobody is completely safe in the Central African Republic. Armed groups chased out of the main cities have resorted to guerrilla… Read More

In South Africa, the period when the body of Archbishop Desmond Tutu will lie in state at Cape Town’s Anglican cathedral has been extended until Friday, South African President Cyril Ramaphosa has also announced that Tutu’s requiem Mass on Saturday will be a Special Official Funeral Category 1. Father Michael Weeder is the Dean of St George’s Cathedral in Cape… Read More

Last updated: 23 minutes ago Russian President Vladimir Putin and his Belarusian counterpart Alexander Lukashenko play ice hockey after holding diplomatic talks. Both presidents play on the same team, with Putin taking to the ice as number 11 and Lukashenko as number 1. The son of the Belarusian president Nikolai Lukashenko also joins them. The match takes place on the… Read More