Human geography
UNESCO Puts Hebron On Endangered Heritage List, Outraging Israel
UNESCO on Friday declared the Old City of Hebron an endangered world heritage site, sparking outrage from Israel in a...
Eight DR Congo Soldiers Get Stiff Jail Terms For Kasai Killings
A military court in DR Congo on Thursday handed stiff jail terms, including life imprisonment, to eight soldiers for...
Singapore Repatriates ‘radicalised’ Indonesian Maids
Singapore has repatriated two Indonesian maids it said were radicalised online, one of whom wanted to travel to Syria...
Painted Huts Offer DR Congo Village A Tourism Lifeline
There's no electricity and only 500 residents in the Congolese village of Makwatsha, but a longstanding tradition by...
Burundi Warns New UN Envoy Against Opposition Bias
Burundi on Thursday said it has "faith" in the new UN envoy to the crisis-hit country but warned Michel Kafando against...
Kenya Delays Early Oil Export By Three Months
Kenya has delayed plans to export its first oil in June by three months to better negotiate revenue sharing with the...
NGOs File Rwanda Genocide Lawsuit Against French Bank BNP
Three non-governmental associations said Thursday that they had filed a lawsuit against BNP Paribas accusing the bank...
DR Congo To Probe Ex-Minister’s Suspected Role In Kasai Violence
Parliament in the Democratic Republic of Congo has authorised the state prosecutor to probe alleged involvement by a...
Voting Starts In Sprawling PNG Elections
Voting began in Papua New Guinea elections Saturday with the Pacific nation's leader urging peaceful polling to show it...
Children Electrocuted In Turkish Pool
Three children and two adults who tried to rescue them have been electrocuted in a water park in north-western Turkey,...
Gov’t To Extend ICT Education To Deprived Areas In Ghana
Government is committed to providing schools in deprived communities with functional Information and Communication...
Zuma and Kabila To Hold Talks On Sunday
President Jacob Zuma will on Sunday, 25 June 2017, host the President of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), His...
Home Beckons Across the Border For Exiled Ivorian Children
Hurbain Souomi was only five years old, but he still remembers the day he trekked 50 kilometres (30 miles) across the...
Gunmen Kill 1 In Bar Attack In S. Burundi
A woman was Friday night shot dead in a gunmen’s attack against a bar at Maramvya in Burambi district in Rumonge...
Ethiopia To Mark Refugee Day With Open-Door Policy In Question
Known for its open door policy towards refugees, Ethiopia on Thursday announced to celebrate the World Refuge Day in...
Somalia Migration Is A Great Cause For Concern – UN
The UN Migration Agency (IOM) has indicated that it is deeply concerned by the situation of approximately 260 Somali...
Dates Traders To Benefit From Capital Injection
Under the Patronage of H. R.H. Prince Saud Bin Khalid Al-Faisal, Deputy Governor of Medina Region, the Chairman of the...
‘Green Police’ To Battle Tunisia Trash Scourge
Tunisia on Tuesday launched a special "green police" unit aimed at dealing with the proliferation of waste, a scourge...
UN Experts’ Murder Trial Resumes In DR Congo
A Democratic Republic of Congo military court held a second day of hearings Monday in the trial of a man and a teenager...