VODAFONE has successfully landed the 2Africa cable in Bude, a town in Northern Cornwall, UK. The 2Africa cable is the world’s largest fibre-optic cable system and will connect Africa, Europe, and significant parts of the Middle East and South Asia…
AN aircraft carrying Malawi’s Vice-President Saulos Chilima and nine others has gone missing, according to a statement from the president’s office. The Malawi Defence Force aircraft ‘went off the radar’ after departing from the capital, Lilongwe, on Monday morning. The…
MALAWI’S Vice President Saulos Klaus Chilima and nine others on board a military aircraft that went missing on Monday were killed in a plane crash, President Lazarus Chakwera confirmed on Tuesday. Flight details and disappearance The aircraft carrying Chilima, 51, departed from…
Minister of Foreign Affairs, Ambassador Yusuf Maitama Tuggar, has written to the Head of Service of the Federation, Dr. Folasade Yemi-Esan, over alleged sexual harassment of a married staff member by the Permanent Secretary in the ministry. The complaint was…
FOLLOWING South Africa’s historic 2024 general election, the ruling African National Congress (ANC) has started a process to establish a government of national unity. This, after it lost its parliamentary majority. As a political scientist, I believe that five political parties, including those with…
A court in Brussels has sentenced 65-year-old Belgian-Rwandan Emmanuel Nkunduwimye to 25 years in prison for his involvement in murder and rape during the 1994 Rwandan genocide. The verdict was delivered on Monday after Nkunduwimye was found guilty of war…
THE automotive market in South Africa is at a crossroads marked by high prices affecting both consumers and car manufacturers. Factors such as the depreciation of the rand, increased production costs, and rising fuel prices have significantly contributed to this…
WHEN I wrote my words for the anthem, in 1978, it was my dream for the country to move forward and take its place among the great nations of the world. But all that potential has been hijacked and degraded…
German police carried out further raids on Tuesday morning targeting the far-right Reich Citizens movement, with suspects allegedly linked to a previously uncovered plot to overthrow the German government. Several large criminal trials against 26 alleged extremists who plotted to…
The Federal High Court (FHC) will, on July 23, begin its annual vacation. The FHC Assistant Director of Information/ICT, Dr Catherine Oby-Christopher, made this known in a statement on Tuesday in Abuja. The statement was titled: “Notification of Federal High…
