Anglican Church of Uganda intensifies mentorship for boys to fight gender-based violence and disparity
Kampala, Uganda The Anglican Church of Uganda will intensify its mentorship program for boys in a bid to fight gender-based violence and gender disparity. The Archbishop of the Anglican Church, Dr Stephen Kaziimba Mugalu, observed that while girls are mentored on how to treat men in Africa, boys are, on the other hand, left on […]
Postcards: “We live in hell” – Volunteer bus evacuates wounded Ukrainian troops
MIKE COLLETT-WHITE, of Reuters, reports from a bus that doubles as a high-tech medical evacuation unit in Ukraine…
Mortars, artillery and small arms fire as battle for Bakhmut rages
Near Bakhmut, Ukraine Reuters From a mortar position behind a ridge beyond which frontline Ukrainian and Russian troops face off outside the hotly contested city of Bakhmut, a crew adjusted its weapons before firing off seven rounds. The impact of each could be heard in the distance seconds later, while the constant boom of outgoing […]
US releases video of drone incident it says exposes Russian lies
Washington DC, US Reuters The United States on Thursday released a de-classified video showing Russia’s intercept of a US military surveillance drone downed over the Black Sea two days ago, images that the White House said exposed how Moscow was lying about what happened. The downing of the US MQ-9 drone on Tuesday was the […]
Some Russian abuses in Ukraine may be crimes against humanity – UN inquiry finds
Geneva, SwitzerlandReuters Russia has committed wide-ranging war crimes in Ukraine such as wilful killings and torture, a UN-mandated investigative body said on Thursday, in some cases making children watch loved ones being raped and detaining others alongside dead bodies. The alleged crimes, including the deportation of children, were detailed in a report by the Independent […]
Survivors in shock as Cyclone Freddy toll passes 400 in Malawi, Mozambique
Blantyre, Malawi Reuters The last thing Lukia Akimu remembers is the surge of floodwater that hit her village near Mount Soche this week when Tropical Cyclone Freddy tore through southern Malawi. The next thing she knew, she woke up in hospital, her head wrapped in bandages and her neck in a brace. “I saw a […]
South Korea and Japan hail spring thaw amid missiles and weight of history
Tokyo, Japan/Seoul, South KoreaReuters The leaders of Japan and South Korea promised to turn the page on years of animosity at a meeting on Thursday, putting aside their difficult, shared history and saying they needed to work more closely to counter regional security challenges. The comments from South Korea’s Yoon Suk Yeol and Japan’s Fumio […]
In Bolivia’s heartland, protests rattle lithium development push
La Paz, Bolivia Reuters Protesters in Bolivia’s lithium-rich region of Potosi are blockading a key processing plant, demanding legislation that guarantees better benefits for local communities and larger royalties from extraction of the electric battery metal. The protests are focused on a plant in Llipi, near the Uyuni salt flats, which hold one of the […]
North Korea launches apparent ICBM ahead of South Korea-Japan summit
Seoul, South Korea Reuters North Korea fired a suspected intercontinental ballistic missile into the sea between the Korean peninsula and Japan on Thursday, hours before South Korea’s President was due to fly to Tokyo for a summit expected to discuss ways to counter the nuclear-armed North. North Korea has conducted multiple missile launches this week […]
Helpdesk: TikTok bans – what the evidence says about security and privacy concerns
BENJAMIN DOWLING, a cyber security expert at the University of Sheffield in the UK, looks – in an article first published on The Conversation – at security concerns surrounding TikTok…