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Iraq’s parliament has passed a bill criminalising same-sex relationships with jail terms of between 10 and 15 years. Transgender people could also be sent to prison for between one and three years under the new law. Supporters of the changes say they will help to uphold religious values in the country. Rights groups say they […]
Hamas has published a video showing the first proof of life of two more hostages being held in Gaza. In undated footage filmed under duress, Omri Miran says he has been held for 202 days and Keith Siegel mentions this week’s Passover holiday, indicating the clips were filmed recently. Both were captured when Hamas launched […]
Disgraced movie mogul Harvey Weinstein has been hospitalised just days after his 2020 rape conviction in New York was overturned, his lawyer has said. Arthur Aidala said he was moved to a Manhattan hospital on Friday. He remains in jail after being separately convicted of rape in Los Angeles. Mr Aidala said his client was […]
Record-breaking heat means ice cubes now cost more than bread and milk in parts of Mali. “I’ve come to buy ice because it’s very hot now,” says 15-year-old Fatouma Yattara as she visits her local vendor in the capital, Bamako. With no working fridge due to prolonged power cuts, she resorts to using ice cubes […]
Opinions differ wildly about whether the uMkhonto Wesizwe party and its leader, Jacob Zuma, should be taken seriously. Some believe its manifesto is a joke, but others say it will attract many voters. One thing is certain, though: in KwaZulu-Natal, all bets about possible election outcomes are off. Thirty years after Nelson Mandela swept the […]
… lawyer guarantees constitutional fight if assented Swapo backbencher Jerry Ekandjo says Namibia should not allow Western culture to influence its citizens by accepting homosexual acts. He yesterday asked how far the speaker’s office was with processing his proposed anti-gay bills in the parliament. Ekandjo reminded the house that he tabled the bills in the […]
Controversial businessman and Cameroonian lawyer NJ Ayuk, who leads the African Energy Chamber (AEC), says he is impressed by the Knowledge Katti Foundation’s efforts to involve local communities in oil and gas projects. This comes after the foundation supported community participation through a recent Sintana Energy deal – a company founded by businessman Knowledge Katti. […]
Urban and rural development minister Erastus Uutoni says the National Housing Enterprises (NHE) has delivered 694 houses since July 2020. Uutoni was speaking during the handover of 65 new houses constructed by the NHE at Gobabis yesterday. The minister said the 694 beneficiary families have been living in corrugated iron houses for years. The houses […]
The man convicted of murdering the two top executives of the Namibian Institute of Mining and Technology (Nimt) in April 2019 should be sentenced to a substantial period of imprisonment, the prosecutor involved in his trial proposed in the Windhoek High Court yesterday. “These murders were shocking. They were extreme, they were callous,” deputy prosecutor […]
The police at Walvis Bay have confirmed that the mother of the year-old baby, who was found abandoned in the dunes outside the town on Saturday, has been traced. Erongo police spokesperson chief inspector Ileni Shapumba says the baby’s mother (24) was found selling kapana at a local shebeen at Kuisebmond, after a community member […]