As he aged into his 90s, Mugabe grew frail. His second wife, Grace (Marufu) Mugabe — 41 years his junior and unpopular with the public for what many considered profligate spending — positioned herself to eventually take power
The Israeli Prime Minister also called Friday, August 30 on his Facebook pageboycott of the Channel 12 Israeli channel . The call comes only hoursafter the Election Commission rejected the Likud party’s request to prevent the channel from releasing new revelations about a corruption case in which Benyamin Netanyahu is quoted
The group of gas-masked, black-shirted young people throwing Molotov cocktails, rocks and water bottles at police and scrawling “Reclaim Hong Kong! Revolution in our time!” and obscenities targeting the police on official buildings has become known as a distinct group offrontline protesters who have their own supply lines, tactics and consensus about when to stay and when to leave the scene of clashes
Three words resonated like a refrain during Pope Francis’ whirlwind tour of Mozambique: hope, peace, and reconciliation. Tens of thousands of faithful from across the African continent packed a Maputo stadium to hear that message, and take it with them
In the weeks since military and civilian leaders in Sudan signed a landmark power-sharing agreement, heavy rains have caused flooding along the Nile, damaging tens of thousands of homes
Ghana is famous for its cocoa, the main ingredient in chocolate. It supplies about 20 percent of the world’s market. This year, the government announced plans to raise cocoa incomes, but cocoa bean farms are being destroyed, with or without the farmers’ consent, as their landlords end their leases early, opting for other crops, development or mining
The near extinct masked dance of Lakhon Khol was on display recently, thousands of miles away from its birthplace in Cambodia. A group of devoted amateurs brought the ancient dance to the Washington metropolitan
Lobsang Dorje, 36, was taken from his room in Ngaba county’s Kirti monastery by police in July 2018, and was incommunicado until now, Kanyag Tsering—a monk at Kirti’s branch monastery in India—told RFA’s Tibetan Service on Thursday
Residents of Saratov in central Russia have joined forces on social media to try and identify the source of a stench they say hits the city at nighttime and weekends. They’re blaming local industrial plants