“I’m back”: Trump returns to YouTube, Facebook after two-year ban
Reuters Former US President Donald Trump posted to YouTube and Facebook on Friday, in a return to social media platforms that he used to power his political rise until he was cut off following the 6th January, 2021, attack on Congress by his followers. Trump shared a video that appeared to be from one of […]
Essay: Single women and widows in Afghanistan are struggling to find their next meal under Taliban restrictions
In an article first published on The Conversation, NITYA RAO, of the University of East Anglia, looks at the growing hardships facing women in Afghanistan…
Musk says Trump’s Twitter account to be reinstated after poll shows narrow support
Reuters Donald Trump on Saturday said he had no interest in returning to Twitter even as a slim majority voted in favor of reinstating the former US President, who was banned from the social media service for inciting violence, in a poll organised by new owner Elon Musk. Slightly over 15 million Twitter users voted […]
Zambian church leaders ban politicians from pulpit
Nairobi, Kenya Church leaders in Zambia have banned politicians from speaking in churches and warned their clergy to keep off politicians from the pulpit, citing its holiness compared to the lies the politicians tell the congregants. The leaders said politicians had disrespected the sanctity of worship during services, promising congregants things that are unrealistic and […]
Trump’s immigration bans meet with a sharp response from some US Christian leaders
Some Christian leaders, many invoking the Biblical command to welcome the stranger, have lambasted US President Donald Trump’s Friday orders which have indefinitely banned Syrian refugees from the US and temporarily banned refugees from other countries and visa-holders from seven Muslim-majority nations. Media organisations have reported that under the bans, the US refugee program has […]