The director of Amnesty Kenya was arrested last week along with others who took part in a march against feminicide in Nairobi. On Monday, the director was summoned to appear in court. Source link
A crowd erupts in cheers as a young Maasai woman pelts over the finish line, the latest participant in the “Maasai Olympics”, a re-imagining of a traditional coming-of-age rite in the rolling Kenyan grasses. Source link
Days after European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen signed a long-pending trade deal with four Latin American countries, French farmers are back on the streets dumping manure. This time they parked the tractors near the tunnel in Calais which passes through the English Channel. Sophie Primas, France’s trade minister, said the deal with the … Read more
Anti-whaling activist Paul Watson was freed from prison in Denmark on Tuesday, his lawyer told AFP, and he will not be extradited to Japan. Watson was detained on a 2012 Japanese arrest warrant, which accuses him of causing damage to a whaling ship in the Antarctic in 2010 and injuring a whaler. Source link
Disgraced UK Royal Prince Andrew finds himself embroiled yet again in Scandal and has had to be reigned in by his older brother King Charles the 3rd yet again. In the latest controversy, a Chinese businessman with links to the prince, was revealed to have been barred from entering the UK over concerns of spying … Read more
Nigeria’s Ademola Lookman and Zambia’s Barbra Banda were named Africa’s players of the year on Monday. The Confederation of African Football held its annual awards ceremony in Marrakesh, with a host of top African artists taking to the stage. Carys Garland takes a look at the top prize winners. Source link
Syrian rebel leader, Ahmed al-Sharaa, better known by his nom de guerre Abu Mohammed al-Jolani, called for the lifting of international sanctions in an exclusive interview Monday with a group of foreign journalists that included FRANCE 24’s Wassim Nasr. Source link
Israeli military strikes across the Gaza Strip said to have killed at least 14 more Palestinians as tanks are pushing deeper towards the western side of Rafah. The country’s defense Minister Israel Katz saying again that Israel will continue to have full security control over Gaza. That amid as well struggles for control in the … Read more
The worst storm to hit the Indian Ocean archipelago in almost a century. Mayotte’s prefect has said that deaths from the cyclone will be in the hundreds, and potentially several thousand. The archipelago is France’s poorest overseas territory; it’s home to some 321,000 people, many who live in fragile, makeshift housing. But many of these … Read more
