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More than 100 dead and 6 million affected by flooding across South Asia
By CNN,
2022, July 16, 2019 (EAT)
The death toll in South Asia continues to rise after flooding and landslides ravaged the border region of India and Nepal, leaving tens of thousands d...
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Botswana seeks to overturn court ruling allowing gay sex
By Reuters,
1359, July 6, 2019 (EAT)
Botswana’s government will appeal a high court ruling which decriminalized homosexuality, potentially resuscitating a law that punished gay sex by u...
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Islamists faced with challenges in Sudan’s transition
By VOA,
1012, July 2, 2019 (EAT)
As protesters in Sudan continue to push against the military junta to form a civilian-led government after the ouster of former president Omar al-Bash...
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Poor nations hosting most refugees worldwide, need more Western help: U.N.
By Reuters,
2036, June 19, 2019 (EAT)
Developing countries, not rich Western nations, are bearing the brunt of the world’s refugee crisis and are hosting most of the record 70.8 million ...
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Hong Kong makes last push to scrap extradition bill
By VOA,
1212, June 9, 2019 (EAT)
At least half a million people in Hong Kong are expected to brave sweltering heat Sunday to press the government to scrap a proposed extradition law t...
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Thousands of women sold into sex slavery in China – Report
By CNN,
2018, May 21, 2019 (EAT)
Thousands of North Korean women and girls are being trafficked and sold into sexual slavery in China, where many are sold as wives to Chinese men whil...
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Senators condemn arrest of Kakamega Senator Malala
By Allan Obiero,
2010, May 19, 2019 (EAT)
A section of legislators led by Siaya Senator James Orengo have condemned the continued detention of Kakamega Senator Cleophas Malala terming it as in...
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Trump directs officials to toughen asylum rules
By VOA,
1030, April 30, 2019 (EAT)
U.S. President Donald Trump directed officials to toughen rules for asylum seekers on Monday, including by introducing a fee for their applications an...
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Peru’s ex-president Garcia dies after shooting himself to avoid arrest
By Reuters,
2008, April 17, 2019 (EAT)
Peru’s former president Alan Garcia died in a hospital in Lima on Wednesday, hours after shooting himself in the head to avoid arrest in connection ...
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Berlin: The city where anything goes
By CNN,
1401, April 13, 2019 (EAT)
Burlesque dancer Anja Pavlova unhooks her spangled brassiere, tosses it aside and turns to face the cheering crowd. In the steaming hot Hoochie Koo ...
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Pakistan: Hindu sisters not forcibly converted to Islam
By VOA,
1745, April 12, 2019 (EAT)
A court in Islamabad on Thursday has ruled that two Hindu sisters from Sindh province, who were allegedly abducted and forced to marry Muslim men, vol...
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Trump: more troops needed at border with Mexico
By VOA,
1236, April 11, 2019 (EAT)
U.S. President Donald Trump says more troops will need to be sent to the country’s southern border because too many dangerous people are illegally e...
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Congress urged to do more to protect China’s Uighurs
By VOA,
1748, April 5, 2019 (EAT)
U.S. representatives and activists are calling for the U.S. to do more to protect the Uighurs, a Muslim minority in China who live primarily in the no...
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Kenya orders closure of Dadaab refugee camp, according to leaked UN document
By Reuters,
1038, March 30, 2019 (EAT)
Kenya has ordered the closure of the Dadaab refugee camp by the middle of this year with the race now on to find homes for more than 210,000 people, a...
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Arrivals at US southern border ‘overwhelming the system’
By VOA,
1125, March 28, 2019 (EAT)
The number of families detained crossing the southern U.S. border without documentation continues to climb this month, according to new data released ...
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Mali President sacks generals, disbands vigilantes after massacre
By Reuters,
924, March 26, 2019 (EAT)
Mali’s President Ibrahim Boubacar Keita sacked and replaced two generals and disbanded an anti-jihadi vigilante group on Sunday, a day after gunmen ...
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Mali leader sacks generals, disbands vigilantes after massacre
By Reuters,
1911, March 25, 2019 (EAT)
Mali’s President Ibrahim Boubacar Keita sacked and replaced two generals and disbanded an anti-jihadi vigilante group on Sunday, a day after gunmen ...
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Trump linking Huawei criminal case, China talks deepens concerns over interference
By VOA,
2121, March 20, 2019 (EAT)
President Donald Trump shocked some last month when he suggested that the criminal charges against Chinese telecom giant Huawei Technologies and its c...
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Botswana court to hear case against criminalisation of gay sex
By Reuters,
900, March 14, 2019 (EAT)
Botswana’s High Court will hear on Thursday a case challenging the criminalisation of gay sex, offering campaigners a rare chance to argue for lesbi...
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U.N. rights boss seeks freedom for Saudi women activists
By Reuters,
1947, March 6, 2019 (EAT)
U.N. human rights chief Michelle Bachelet called on Saudi Arabia on Wednesday to release women activists allegedly tortured in detention after authori...
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