A South African traditional king, Buyelekhaya Dalindyebo, has started serving a 12-year jail sentence for crimes including arson, kidnapping and assault. A spokesman for the Department of Correctional Services, Manelisi Wolela, said on Thursday. Officials described the case as the first of its kind since the country became a democracy in 1994. King Dalindyebo, 51, […]
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Theresa May and Andrea Leadsom will battle it out to become the next leader of the Conservative Party after Michael Gove was eliminated from the contest. After the second MPs’ ballot, Home Secretary Mrs May finished with 199 votes, Energy Minister Mrs Leadsom 84 and Mr Gove, the justice secretary, 46. Conservative members will now […]
Zambia Wildlife Authority (ZAWA) on Friday asked lawmakers to grant it powers to start killing poachers. Acting director-general, ZAWA ,the government’s agency responsible for managing the country’s wildlife sector, Kapamba Kombe, told newsmen in Lusaka that the request had been submitted to the parliamentary committee on Agriculture. Kombe said the country’s wildlife law needed amendment […]
Afghan Taliban leader Mullah Omar has reportedly died. The BBC, which first broke the news, said Afghan government officials and intelligence sources informed it that the reclusive leader – who the US placed a $10m million bounty on – died two to three years ago. Although no further details have been released, the Afghan government […]
A new study shows that the number of children and adolescents who are out of school is on the rise, and grew to 124 million in 2013. Released by the UNESCO Institute for Statistics (UIS) and the Education for All Global Monitoring Report (EFA GMR), it shows that international aid to education remains below 2010 […]