CAIRO—A vehicle accident involving an overturned microbus in southern Egypt killed at least nine people and injured 18, authorities said Saturday. The crash took place Friday when the passenger vehicle overturned following a tire blowout on a highway in Minya Province 273 kilometers (170 miles) south of the capital Cairo, provincial authorities said in a…
EXCLUSIVE: Senator Seeks to Expose CCP’s Authoritarian Ambition
August 11, 2022
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The Chinese Communist Party has for years been bent on cementing its influence over the developing world. One U.S. senator is hoping to counter this through an awareness-raising initiative. In a Twitter campaign dubbed “#ExposingTheCCP,” Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Fla.) plans to spotlight the regime’s “sinister relationships” with countries in Latin America and the Caribbean, Africa,…
EXCLUSIVE: Senator Seeks to Expose CCP’s Authoritarian Ambitions
August 11, 2022
admin
AfricaAsia & PacificCCPChinaChinese Communist PartyChinese RegimeInternationalMiddle EastPoliticsRepublicansRubioSocial MediaTechTwitterUSUS NewsUS-China relationsWorld
0 Comment
The Chinese Communist Party has for years been bent on cementing its influence over the developing world. One U.S. senator is hoping to counter this through an awareness-raising initiative. In a Twitter campaign dubbed “#ExposingTheCCP,” Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Fla.) plans to spotlight the regime’s “sinister relationships” with countries in Latin America and the Caribbean, Africa,…
Survival on the Ballot in Nigeria’s High Stakes Election: Church Leader
Presidential elections next year in war-torn Nigeria amount to a “do or die situation” for embattled Christians, according to a spokesman for the northern church associations. “We either confront the evil in this country at the ballot box in February or we perish,” Rev. John Hayab, president of the Christian Association of Nigeria chapter in Kaduna state, told The…
Militants Kill 17 Soldiers in Mali Attack
BAMAKO—Terrorists killed 17 Malian soldiers and four civilians in an attack near the town of Tessit on Sunday, the Malian army said. Nine soldiers were also reported missing and vehicles and equipment were destroyed, it said in a statement released late on Monday, adding that it suspected an ISIS terrorist group affiliate. “On 07 August…
Discover the Tints, Textures and Tastes of Cape Town
By Mary Ann Anderson From Tribune News Service On an early spring morning, I open wide the sliding doors of my room at Cape Town’s Ellerman House, a hillside hotel above the Atlantic. From the balcony, I watch as low clouds and ghostly mists whisk across the bluest of skies. I don’t know why the…
South Africa Confirms Causal Link Between Death and COVID-19 Vaccine
The South African Health Products Regulatory Authority (SAHPRA) on Thursday confirmed that a person died as a result of the COVID-19 vaccine. SAHPRA’s chief executive officer, Dr. Boitumelo Semete-Makokotlela, said this was the country’s first death causally linked to an individual and Johnson & Johnson’s (J&J) COVID-19 vaccine. To date, the health regulator assessed around 160…
East-West Diplomatic Charm Offensive Takes New Twist in Africa
France, Russia and the United States are racing against time to redefine their increasingly unpredictable relations with African states amid the war in Eastern Europe. President Emmanuel Macron of France visited Cameroon, Benin, and Guinea-Bissau, from July 25 to 28 and addressed Africa’s multifaceted security challenges as well as Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. “France remains resolutely…
Kenyan Ministers Rally Around Meta’s Facebook After Watchdog’s Ultimatum
NAIROBI—Kenya has no intention of shutting down Facebook, which is owned by Meta, its ICT minister said on Monday after the national cohesion watchdog gave the platform seven days to comply with rules on hate speech or face suspension. The National Cohesion and Integration Commission (NCIC) on Friday accused Facebook of contravening Kenya’s constitution and…
Fuel Tanker Catches Fire in Libya; 5 Dead, 50 Injured
CAIRO—A fuel tanker truck caught fire and exploded Monday in central Libya, killing at least five people and injuring 50 others, authorities said. The incident took place in the central town of Bent Bayya, according to the Health Ministry in the capital of Tripoli. The ministry did not say how many were killed, but Foreign…
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