BRIDGETOWN, Barbados (AP) — The eastern Caribbean island of Barbados held a snap general election on Wednesday after cutting ties with Queen Elizabeth II late last year and appointing its first ever president to lead the world’s newest republic. © Provided by Associated Press FILE – Barbados Prime Minister Mia Amor Mottley speaks during the opening […]
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Indonesia has announced that its new capital will be called Nusantara, meaning “archipelago” in Javanese. © Getty Images Traffic jams are notorious in the current capital of JakartaThe country’s parliament approved a bill to relocate the capital from Jakarta, which is rapidly sinking.The idea of building a new capital 1,300km (800 miles) away on the island
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Nigeria’s interior minister has ordered prison guards to “shoot to kill” those involved in jailbreaks. Rauf Aregbesola made the comments in an address to prison staff in the southern city of Ibadan, saying anyone who attempts to breach security “must not live to tell the tale”. Over the past year armed groups have attacked various
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The US and Russian foreign ministers will hold talks in Geneva on Friday in a development that a US official said suggested that “perhaps diplomacy is not dead” in the efforts to fend off a new Russian attack on Ukraine. With the White House warning that such an attack could come “at any time”, the
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Hon Otafiire(2nd R) appearing before the Committee on Defence and Internal Affairs. On his left the Committee chair, Hon Rosemary Nyakikongoro Internal Affairs Minister, Maj Gen (Rtd) Kahinda Otafiire has condemned the shooting of a traffic police officer by a UPDF soldier still at large, saying the perpetrator will face justice. Otafiire said having been
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By Julius Mugaga/ KMA Updates. Fish ponds constructed by Kajjansi Aquaculture services centrein Zambia/Courtesy Photo. Kampala, Uganda: Fish farming is seeing a stretch in development compared to how the sub sector was portrayed before hence increased growth of the entire sector. Aquaculture subsector did not exist until 1953 with the establishment of a government owned
GUATEMALA CITY (Reuters) – Guatemalan authorities said on Monday they have sent back more than 600 migrants who entered the country in a caravan that was bound for the United States. © Reuters/JOSUE DECAVELE FILE PHOTO: Migrant caravan blocked near the border with Honduras Guatemala’s foreign ministry said 622 people, mainly from Honduras and Nicaragua, entered
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LAS VEGAS (AP) — Her husband campaigned to help unite the country, but Jill Biden says “healing” a nation wounded by a deadly pandemic, natural and other disasters and deep political polarization is among her chief roles as first lady, too. © Provided by Associated Press FILE – First lady Jill Biden reacts to a question from
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Sudanese security forces on Monday have been accused of killing at least seven people during anti-coup protests in the capital Khartoum. An advocacy group, the Central Committee of Sudan Doctors (CCSD), said in a statement posted on social media that “seven civilians were killed by the live ammunition of security forces during today’s anti-coup peaceful
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The report about the investigation into a Ryanair flight that was diverted to Belarus last year is complete, the International Civil Aviation Organization said Monday, adding that next steps will be set in late January. All 193 members of the ICAO, including the 36 states currently serving on the organization’s council, were given access to
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