Leinster scrum-half Jamison Gibson-Park misses out on Ireland’s tour to South Africa next month through injury. It was also announced recently that Jack Conan will also not be travelling with the team for personal reasons. Peter O’Mahony will captain the side that boasts a number of fresh faces making their debut. Ulster forward Cormac Izuchukwu […]
UNITED NATIONS (AP) — Activities of armed groups in the volatile Central African Republic have increased, complicating a security landscape that has seen a spillover of the conflict in neighboring Sudan, U.N. experts warn in a new report. The panel of experts cite confirmed reports of air raids by the Sudanese military around border areas […]
With his suave, urbane demeanour, decades worth of political experience and significant role in the anti-apartheid movement, one would have expected Cyril Ramaphosa to confidently land a second term as South Africa’s president. But Mr Ramaphosa led his African National Congress (ANC) to its worst election result in 30 years – falling short of the […]
South Africa’s President Cyril Ramaphosa has been confirmed for a second term in office by the country’s newly elected parliament. Ramaphosa received 283 out of 339 votes, as Raymond Zondo, the country’s Chief Justice, said on Friday evening. Earlier on Friday, Ramaphosa secured a coalition agreement between his African National Congress (ANC) party and the […]
South Africa’s parliament has re-elected Cyril Ramaphosa as the country’s president following a landmark coalition deal between the governing African National Congress (ANC) and opposition parties. The new government of national unity combines Mr Ramaphosa’s ANC, the centre-right Democratic Alliance (DA) and smaller parties. The agreement was hashed out on a day of high political […]
South African president Cyril Ramaphosa was re-elected for a second term on Friday after his African National Congress party struck a dramatic late coalition deal with the main opposition and other parties. Mr Ramaphosa won convincingly in a vote against a surprise candidate who was also nominated in parliament – Julius Malema, the leader of […]
Campaigners are calling for an investigation into the kidnapping and beating of Stephen Kwikiriza, a vocal opponent of a controversial drilling and pipeline project in Uganda. Kwikiriza was abducted on June 4 in Kampala by what appeared to be plainclothes officers from the Ugandan military. Five days later, he was dropped 150 miles away, by […]
Johannesburg — After talks that carried on late into Thursday night, Friday morning brought news that South Africa would soon have its first coalition government. Uncertainty had reigned since the late Nelson Mandela’s party, the long-ruling African National Congress, lost its majority in May’s national election. The ANC said Thursday that it would partner with […]
South African politicians are expected to elect the country’s president on Friday after being sworn in at the first sitting of Parliament which will also reveal the kind of unity government the ruling African National Congress (ANC) has managed to cobble together after losing its majority for the first time since 1994. The politicians are […]
An Arizona man planned a mass shooting targeting African Americans and other minorities at a rap concert in Atlanta in May, looking to incite a race war ahead of the presidential election, federal authorities said. Mark Adams Prieto was indicted by a federal grand jury Tuesday on charges of firearms trafficking, transfer of a firearm […]
The state Department of Education has discontinued advanced placement African American Studies in the state’s public schools, a decision that has left many civil rights leaders upset and one state representative accusing the state agency of attempting to “whitewash” history. In a June 4 memo to school district leaders, the education department announced that schools […]
Nacala McDaniels, a 2023 graduate who took AP African American Studies, speaks during a news conference at the Statehouse on Tuesday, June 11, 2024. (Skylar Laird/SC Daily Gazette) COLUMBIA — Nacala McDaniels was excited when her high school in Richland County started offering Advanced Placement African American Studies in her senior year. “It seemed as […]