An Indonesian woman was flogged 100 times Thursday in conservative Aceh province for adultery while her male partner, who denied the accusations, received just 15 lashes. Ivan Najjar Alavi, the head of general investigation division at East Aceh prosecutors office, said the court handed down a heftier sentence for the married woman after she confessed […]
The Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) has imposed economic sanctions on the Republic of Mali. Member countries of the West African bloc took the decision at an extraordinary summit in Accra, Ghana on Sunday. ECOWAS rejected the proposal by Mali’s government to hold elections in 2025, saying it finds it totally unacceptable. According […]
Three white men convicted of murdering African American jogger Ahmaud Arbery after chasing him in their pickup trucks were sentenced to life in prison Friday in a case that highlighted US tensions over racial justice. Travis McMichael, 35, and his father Gregory McMichael, 66, were sentenced to life without parole, while their neighbor, William “Roddie” […]
Employees and schoolchildren juggled work and studies with weekly Muslim prayers on the first-ever working Friday in the United Arab Emirates as the Gulf country formally switched to a Saturday-Sunday weekend. Some grumbled at the change and businesses were split, with many moving to the Western-style weekend but other private firms sticking with Fridays and […]
The speaker of Tanzania’s parliament quit on Thursday after a very public falling out with President Samia Suluhu Hassan, exacerbating divisions within the ruling party. Job Ndugai, who is no stranger to controversy, had infuriated Hassan last week when he criticised her over what he called Tanzania’s “excessive” foreign borrowing. Rifts have emerged recently in […]
Former President Goodluck Jonathan visited President Muhammadu Buhari at the Presidential Villa, Abuja, on Thursday. According to presidential spokesman, Femi Adesina, Jonathan briefed Buhari on the political development in the Republic of Mali. Adesina said a special meeting of ECOWAS, which will hold in Ghana, on Sunday, to deliberate on the political situation in Mali. […]
The Taliban have ordered shop owners in western Afghanistan to cut the heads off mannequins, insisting figures representing the human form violate Islamic law. A video clip showing men sawing the heads off shop dummies in Herat has gone viral on social media, drawing scorn both inside and outside the country. Since returning to power […]
Abdalla Hamdok, Sudan’s prime minister, has resigned in the face of continuing protests in the capital, Khartoum. This followed mass demonstrations against Hamdok’s recent agreement to share power with the army, which launched a coup in October. Protesters, according to Arab News, chanted “power to the people” and demanded the restoration of genuine civilian control. […]
A fire erupted at the South African parliament in Cape Town on Sunday, with media coverage showing flames coming from the roof of the building. The plume of smoke could be seen from some distance. The fire was on the third storey of the building. Initial reports indicated that it started in the office space […]
Aziz Gul, second from right, and her 10-year-old daughter Qandi, center, sit outside their home with other family members, near Herat, Afghanistan. Dec. 16, 2021. Qandi’s father sold her into marriage without telling his wife, Aziz, taking a down-payment so he could feed his family of five children. Without that money, he told her, they […]
