KIWANGO kilichoonyeshwa na nyota mpya wa Yanga, Sadney Urikhob kimemkuna kocha mkuu wa Yanga, Mwinyi Zahera.
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Kiwango cha Sydney chamkuna Zahera
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CHAN 2020: Tanzania yaiondoa Kenya katika michuano hiyo ya Afrika
Timu ya kandanda ya taifa Stars kutoka tanzania imeiondoa timu ya harambee Stars kutoka kenya katika mashindano ya CHAN 2020
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Taifa Stars kukipiga na Sudan
TIMU ya Taifa ya Tanzania 'Taifa Stars' imefuzu hatua ya pili baada ya kuifunga Kenya kwa penalti 4-1 ikiwa ni mchezo wa marudiano wa kuwania kufuzu fainali za mataifa ya Afrika kwa wachezaji wanaocheza ligi ya ndani (Chan) na sasa watakutana na Sudan.Mechi hiyo iliyochezwa uwanja wa Moi Kasarani jijini hapa ilimalizika kwa sare tasa katika dakika 90 ambapo mchezo wa awali uliochezwa uwanja wa Taifa jijini Dar es Salaam timu hizo zilitoka sare tasa.Mechi inayofuata ya Stars itachezwa Septemba 20 mwaka huu ambapo Stars wataanzia nyumbani.Hata hivyo mechi hiyo pengine isingekwenda kwenye mikwaju ya penati ikiwa John Bocco angetumia vyema nafasi aliyopata dakika ya lala salama.Bocco alinasa mpira uliomponyoka kipa wa Kenya, John Oyemba lakini nahodha huyo wa Taifa Stars akiwa analitazama lango, alipiga shuti hafifu lililopaa na kuinyima nafasi timu yake kupata ushindi.Stars imefuzu hatua inayofuata kwa penaliti 4-1 ambapo penalti za Stars zilipigwa na Paul Godfrey 'Boxer', Erasto Nyoni, Gadiel Michael na Salum Aiyee.
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Mkuu wa Magereza aeleza mahabusu matajiri wanavyohaha kutoa rushwa
Mkuu wa Magereza Mkoa wa Dar es Salaam, Julius Mutambala amesema tangu Serikali ya Awamu ya Tano iingie madarakani wamekumbana na majaribu mengi, ikiwa ni pamoja na uwepo wa mahabusu wanaotaka kutoa rushwa ili kupata unafuu katika masuala mbalimbali.
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Turkey: Families seek their abducted relatives
More than 100,000 people lost their jobs in the aftermath of the attempted coup in Turkey in 2016. Some of them are believed to have been abducted and murdered. There are people who are still missing without a trace.
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London police arrest teen after child falls from Tate Modern balcony
A 6-year-old child was seriously injured after police say he was thrown from a viewing platform at the Tate Modern. London police said they arrested a 17-year-old on suspicion of attempted murder.
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New US Defense Chief Slams China on 1st Asian Visit
Secretary of Defense Mark Esper has slammed China’s “destabilizing” actions in the Indo-Pacific region during his first trip to the region.Speaking to reporters in Sydney with Secretary of State Mike Pompeo and their Australian counterparts, Esper said the United States is “firmly against a disturbing pattern of aggressive behavior, destabilizing behavior from China.”Esper and Pompeo pointed to Beijing’s militarization of islands in the South China Sea and accused it of promoting the state-sponsored theft of other nation’s intellectual property, and “predatory economics.”The last was an apparent reference to so-called "debt traps" like a 2017 arrangement that gave China control of a port in Sri Lanka. After failing to keep up with its debt payments to China, Sri Lanka handed over the port and 15,000 acres of land to the Chinese government for 99 years.China has arguably undertaken the largest transfer of intellectual property in human history, according to Bradley Bowman, the senior director of the Center on Military and Political Power at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies.Bowman told VOA that intellectual property stolen by Beijing has been used to modernize Chinese weapons which, in the event of a future military conflict, would be used to kill Americans and their allies.“The United States will not stand by idly while any one nation attempts to reshape the region to its favor at the expense of others,” Esper said.U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, left, listens as Australian Foreign Minister Marise Payne makes a point during a press conference following annual bilateral talks in Sydney, Australia, Aug. 4, 2019.Pompeo said Sunday the United States was not asking nations to “choose” between the U.S. and China.However, allies in the region have grown increasingly worried amid increasing economic and military tensions between China and the United States.Australian Foreign Minister Marise Payne praised the strong “mateship” between the United States and Australia, but added that China is also a vitally important partner for her country.“It’s in no one’s interest for the Indo-Pacific to become more competitive or adversarial in character,” she said.Southeast Asian nations grappled with the prospect of choosing sides in June during the annual Shangri-la Dialogue defense forum in Singapore. The question loomed so large that Singapore Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong warned of smaller countries being “forced” to take sides.
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Trump Remains Out of Sight After Pair of Mass Shootings
As the nation reeled from two mass shootings in less than a day, President Donald Trump spent the first hours after the tragedies out of sight at his New Jersey golf course, sending out tweets of support awkwardly mixed in with those promoting a celebrity fight and attacking his political foes.Trump was to travel back to Washington later Sunday and aides said he would likely address reporters, but the nation did not glimpse the president in the immediate aftermath of a shooting in El Paso, Texas, that killed at least 20 people and, hours later, one in Dayton, Ohio, that claimed at least nine lives. Never seemingly comfortable consoling a nation in grief, Trump will be carefully watched for his response to the attacks, again inviting comparison to his predecessors who have tried to heal the country in moments of national trauma.Investigators focused on whether the El Paso attack was a hate crime after the emergence of a racist, anti-immigrant screed that was posted online shortly beforehand. Detectives sought to determine if it was written by the man who was arrested.In recent weeks, the president has issued racist tweets about four women of color who serve in Congress, and in rallies has spoken of an “invasion” at the southern border. His reelection strategy so far has placed racial animus at the forefront in an effort that his aides say is designed to activate his base of conservative voters, an approach not seen by an American president in the modern era.Flowers adorn a makeshift memorial near the scene of a mass shooting at a shopping complex in El Paso, Texas, Aug. 4, 2019.Trump has also been widely criticized for offering a false equivalency when discussing racial violence, notably when he said there were “good people on both sides” after a white supremacist rally in Charlottesville, Virginia, that resulted in the death of an anti-racism demonstrator.The shootings will likely complicate that strategy, and Democrats who are campaigning to deny Trump a second term were quick to lay blame at the president's feet.“You reap what you sow, and he is sowing seeds of hate in this country. This harvest of hate violence we're seeing right now lies at his feet,” Sen. Cory Booker of New Jersey said on NBC's “Meet the Press.” “He is responsible.”White House aides said the president has been receiving updates about both shootings.“The FBI, local and state law enforcement are working together in El Paso and in Dayton, Ohio,” Trump tweeted Sunday morning. “God bless the people of El Paso Texas. God bless the people of Dayton, Ohio.”His first tweet after the El Paso shooting on Saturday hit similar notes, with Trump calling it “terrible” and promising the full support of the federal government. But just 14 minutes later, he tweeted again, a discordant post wishing UFC fighter Colby Covington, a Trump supporter, good luck in his fight that evening. That was soon followed up with a pair of retweets of African American supporters offering testimonials to Trump's policies helping black voters, though the president polls very poorly with blacks.Relatives of victims of the Walmart mass shooting wait for information from authorities at the reunification center in El Paso, Texas, Aug. 4, 2019.Trump's two elder sons attended the UFC fight, while social media photos show that Trump stopped by a wedding at his Bedminster club on Saturday night.The motive for the Dayton shooting, which happened in a popular nightlife district, was not immediately known. But Democrats pointed to the El Paso attack and blamed Trump for his incendiary rhetoric about immigrants that they say fosters an atmosphere of hate and violence.Federal officials said they were treating the El Paso attack as a domestic terrorism case.Trump's language about immigrants, and his hardline policies, loomed over the El Paso shooting.He has described groups of immigrants as “infestations,” declared in his campaign kickoff that many of those coming from Mexico were “rapists,”deemed a caravan of Hispanic migrants as invaders and wondered why the United States accepted so many immigrants from “s---hole countries” like Haiti, El Salvador and African nations. Critics also point to his campaign proposal to ban all Muslims from entering the United States, his suggestion that President Barack Obama was not born in the United States and his administration's efforts to curtail asylum and separate immigrant children from their parents at the border.The president has also repeatedly been denounced for being slow to criticize acts of violence carried out by white nationalists, or deem them acts of domestic terrorism, most notably when he declared there were good people on “both sides” of the 2017 deadly clash in Charlottesville. The number of hate groups has surged to record highs under Trump's presidency, according to the Southern Poverty Law Center.Shoes are piled in the rear of Ned Peppers Bar at the scene after a mass shooting in Dayton, Ohio, Aug. 4, 2019.“He is encouraging this. He doesn't just tolerate it; he encourages it. Folks are responding to this. It doesn't just offend us, it encourages the kind of violence that we're seeing, including in my home town of El Paso yesterday,” former Rep. Beto O'Rourke, a 2020 Democratic contender, said on CNN's “State of the Union.” “He is an open, avowed racist and is encouraging more racism in this country. And this is incredibly dangerous for the United States of America right now.”Other Democratic candidates also slammed Trump's lack of response.“We must come together to reject this dangerous and growing culture of bigotry espoused by Trump and his allies,” tweeted Sen. Bernie Sanders of Vermont. “Instead of wasting money putting children in cages, we must seriously address the scourge of violent bigotry and domestic terrorism.”And Pete Buttigieg said Trump is “condoning and encouraging white nationalism.”“It is very clear that this kind of hate is being legitimized from on high,” Buttigieg, the mayor of South Bend, Indiana, said in an interview on CNN.Trump ordered flags to be lowered in remembrance of both shootings.Acting White House chief of staff Mick Mulvaney defended the president's response, saying Trump was “a combination of saddened by this and he's angry about it.” Mulvaney told ABC's “This Week” that Trump's first call was “to the attorney general to find out what we could do to prevent this type of thing from happening.”Mourners gather at a vigil following a nearby mass shooting in Dayton, Ohio, Aug. 4, 2019.“These are sick people,” he said. “And we need to figure out what we can do to make sure this doesn't happen again.”Mulvaney focused on the challenges of mental illness and largely dodged the notion of supporting widespread gun control measures, though he pointed out the administration banned bump stocks, which help turn semi-automatic weapons into even more lethal automatic ones. Trump, who has enjoyed deep support from the National Rifle Association gun lobbying group, has stayed away from most gun control measures, including after being personally lobbied by survivors of last year's school shooting in Parkland, Florida.The top Democrat in the Senate, Chuck Schumer, urged Majority Leader Mitch McConnell to call an emergency session to put a House-passed bill on universal background checks up for debate and a vote “immediately.”White House officials said there were no immediate plans for Trump to address the nation after the shooting. Other presidents have used the aftermath of a national tragedy to reassure citizens, including when George W. Bush visited a mosque less than a week after the Sept. 11, 2001, terror attacks to stand up for Muslims in the United States and when Obama spoke emotionally after mass shootings in a Sandy Hook school and Charleston church.Trump has struggled to convey such empathy and support, and drew widespread criticism when he tossed paper towels like basketballs to hurricane victims in Puerto Rico. He has also, at times, seemed to welcome violence toward immigrants. At a May rally in Panama City Beach, Florida, Trump bemoaned legal protections for migrants and asked rhetorically, “How do you stop these people?”“Shoot them!” cried one audience member.Trump chuckled and said “Only in the Panhandle you can get away with that statement.”
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Riyad Mahrez: Medicine concern kept Algerian out of Man City team
Manchester City forward Riyad Mahrez missed the Community Shield because of concerns over medicine he was given by Algeria medical team.
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Erdogan: Turkey Readying Offensive in Kurdish Area in Northern Syria
Turkey will carry out a military operation in a Kurdish-controlled area east of the Euphrates in northern Syria, Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan said on Sunday, its third offensive to dislodge Kurdish militia fighters close to its border.
Turkey had in the past warned of carrying out military operations east of the river, but put them on hold after agreeing with the United States to create a safe zone inside Syria's northeastern border with Turkey that would be cleared of the Kurdish YPG militia.
But Ankara has accused Washington of stalling progress on setting up the safe zone and has demanded it sever its relations
with the YPG. The group was Washington's main ally on the ground in Syria during the battle against Islamic State, but Turkey sees it as a terrorist organization.
Erdogan said both Russia and the United States have been told of the planned operation, but did not say when it would
begin. It would mark the third Turkish incursion into Syria in as many years.
"We entered Afrin, Jarablus, and Al-Bab. Now we will enter the east of the Euphrates," Erdogan said on Sunday during a highway-opening ceremony.
Asked about Erdogan's comments, a U.S. official told Reuters: "Bilateral discussions with Turkey continue on the possibility of a safe zone with U.S. and Turkish forces that addresses Turkey’s legitimate security concerns in northern Syria."
Overnight, three Turkish-backed Syrian rebel fighters were killed during clashes with the YPG, state-owned Anadolu Agency reported on Sunday. It said the YPG tried to infiltrate the front lines in Syria's al-Bab area, where Turkey carved out a de facto buffer zone in its 2016 "Euphrates Shield" offensive.
Clashes such as these are frequent in the area, but casualties tend to be rare.
On Thursday, the Kurdish-led administration running north and east Syria issued a statement objecting to Turkish threats to attack the area.
"These threats pose a danger on the area and on a peaceful solution in Syria, and any Turkish aggression on the area will open the way for the return of Daesh (Islamic State), and that aggression will also contribute to the widening of the circle of Turkish occupation in Syria," the statement said.
It called on the international community to take a stance that stops Turkey from carrying out its threats.
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Two Mass Shootings Renew Focus on Gun Violence in US
After two mass shootings in a span of 13 hours, there have now been more than 250 such events this year in which at least four people were shot or killed, besides the shooter. Officials in Dayton, Ohio, and El Paso, Texas, report 29 fatalities and at least 50 injured from shootings this weekend in those cities. Republican and Democrat politicians shared their reactions to the massacres. VOA’s Arash Arabasadi has more.
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Magazeti ya Leo Jumatatu 5 August 2019, Hardnews, Udaku na Michezo
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Islamic Movement in Nigeria: The Iranian-inspired Shia group
The Islamic Movement in Nigeria is challenging the ban, arguing that it is a peaceful movement which has borne the brunt of state-orchestrated violence.
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Engineered in Africa: 'We knew the talent was there'
Christina Sass of software engineer recruitment firm Andela says that talent can be found anywhere.
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Trump Remained Out of Sight for Hours After Mass Shootings
Updated Aug. 4, 7:00PM
BRIDGEWATER, NEW JERSEY — As the nation reeled from two mass shootings in less than a day, President Donald Trump spent the first hours after the tragedies out of sight at his New Jersey golf course, sending out tweets of support awkwardly mixed in with those promoting a celebrity fight and attacking his political foes.Americans did not get a glimpse of the president in the immediate aftermath of a shooting in El Paso, Texas, that killed at least 20 people and, hours later, one in Dayton, Ohio, that claimed at least nine lives. Not until Trump and the first lady prepared to fly back to Washington in the late afternoon Sunday did he appear before cameras.“Hate has no place in our country, and we're going to take care of it,” Trump declared before boarding Air Force One.While connecting “hate” and mental illness to the shootings, Trump made no direct mention of gun laws, a factor brought up by Democratic officials and those seeking their party's nomination to challenge Trump's reelection next year. He also ignored questions about the anti-immigration language in a manifesto written by the El Paso shooter that mirrors some of his own.Trump tried to assure Americans he was dealing with the problem and defended his administration in light of criticism following the latest in a string of mass shootings.“We have done much more than most administrations,” he said, without elaboration. “We have done actually a lot. But perhaps more has to be done.”Flowers adorn a makeshift memorial near the scene of a mass shooting at a shopping complex in El Paso, Texas, Aug. 4, 2019.Never seemingly comfortable consoling a nation in grief, Trump will be carefully watched for his response to the attacks, again inviting comparison to his predecessors who have tried to heal the country in moments of national trauma.Investigators focused on whether the El Paso attack was a hate crime after the emergence of a racist, anti-immigrant screed that was posted online shortly beforehand. Detectives sought to determine if it was written by the man who was arrested.In recent weeks, the president has issued racist tweets about four women of color who serve in Congress, and in rallies has spoken of an “invasion” at the southern border. His reelection strategy so far has placed racial animus at the forefront in an effort that his aides say is designed to activate his base of conservative voters, an approach not seen by an American president in the modern era.Trump has also been widely criticized for offering a false equivalency when discussing racial violence, notably when he said there were “good people on both sides” after a white supremacist rally in Charlottesville, Virginia, that resulted in the death of an anti-racism demonstrator.The shootings will likely complicate that strategy, and Democrats who are campaigning to deny Trump a second term were quick to lay blame at the president's feet.Relatives of victims of the Walmart mass shooting wait for information from authorities at the reunification center in El Paso, Texas, Aug. 4, 2019.“You reap what you sow, and he is sowing seeds of hate in this country. This harvest of hate violence we're seeing right now lies at his feet,” Sen. Cory Booker of New Jersey said on NBC's “Meet the Press.” “He is responsible.”White House aides said the president has been receiving updates about both shootings.“The FBI, local and state law enforcement are working together in El Paso and in Dayton, Ohio,” Trump tweeted Sunday morning. “God bless the people of El Paso Texas. God bless the people of Dayton, Ohio.”His first tweet after the El Paso shooting on Saturday hit similar notes, with Trump calling it “terrible” and promising the full support of the federal government. But just 14 minutes later, he tweeted again, a discordant post wishing UFC fighter Colby Covington, a Trump supporter, good luck in his fight that evening. That was soon followed up with a pair of retweets of African American supporters offering testimonials to Trump's policies helping black voters, though the president polls very poorly with blacks.Trump's two elder sons attended the UFC fight, while social media photos show that Trump stopped by a wedding at his Bedminster club on Saturday night.Shoes are piled in the rear of Ned Peppers Bar at the scene after a mass shooting in Dayton, Ohio, Aug. 4, 2019.The motive for the Dayton shooting, which happened in a popular nightlife district, was not immediately known. But Democrats pointed to the El Paso attack and blamed Trump for his incendiary rhetoric about immigrants that they say fosters an atmosphere of hate and violence.Federal officials said they were treating the El Paso attack as a domestic terrorism case.Trump's language about immigrants, and his hardline policies, loomed over the El Paso shooting.He has described groups of immigrants as “infestations,” declared in his campaign kickoff that many of those coming from Mexico were “rapists,” deemed a caravan of Hispanic migrants as invaders and wondered why the United States accepted so many immigrants from “s---hole countries” like Haiti, El Salvador and African nations. Critics also point to his campaign proposal to ban all Muslims from entering the United States, his suggestion that President Barack Obama was not born in the United States and his administration's efforts to curtail asylum and separate immigrant children from their parents at the border.The president has also repeatedly been denounced for being slow to criticize acts of violence carried out by white nationalists, or deem them acts of domestic terrorism, most notably when he declared there were good people on “both sides” of the 2017 deadly clash in Charlottesville. The number of hate groups has surged to record highs under Trump's presidency, according to the Southern Poverty Law Center.Mourners gather at a vigil following a nearby mass shooting in Dayton, Ohio, Aug. 4, 2019.“He is encouraging this. He doesn't just tolerate it; he encourages it. Folks are responding to this. It doesn't just offend us, it encourages the kind of violence that we're seeing, including in my home town of El Paso yesterday,” former Rep. Beto O'Rourke, a 2020 Democratic contender, said on CNN's “State of the Union.” “He is an open, avowed racist and is encouraging more racism in this country. And this is incredibly dangerous for the United States of America right now.”Other Democratic candidates also slammed Trump's lack of response.“We must come together to reject this dangerous and growing culture of bigotry espoused by Trump and his allies,” tweeted Sen. Bernie Sanders of Vermont. “Instead of wasting money putting children in cages, we must seriously address the scourge of violent bigotry and domestic terrorism.”And Pete Buttigieg said Trump is “condoning and encouraging white nationalism.”“It is very clear that this kind of hate is being legitimized from on high,” Buttigieg, the mayor of South Bend, Indiana, said in an interview on CNN.Trump ordered flags to be lowered in remembrance of both shootings.Acting White House chief of staff Mick Mulvaney defended the president's response, saying Trump was “a combination of saddened by this and he's angry about it.” Mulvaney told ABC's “This Week” that Trump's first call was “to the attorney general to find out what we could do to prevent this type of thing from happening.”The American flag flies at half-staff at the White House in Washington, Aug. 4, 2019, to honor those killed in two mass shootings, one in Dayton, Ohio, and one in El Paso, Texas.“These are sick people,” he said. “And we need to figure out what we can do to make sure this doesn't happen again.”Mulvaney focused on the challenges of mental illness and largely dodged the notion of supporting widespread gun control measures, though he pointed out the administration banned bump stocks, which help turn semi-automatic weapons into even more lethal automatic ones. Trump, who has enjoyed deep support from the National Rifle Association gun lobbying group, has stayed away from most gun control measures, including after being personally lobbied by survivors of last year's school shooting in Parkland, Florida.The top Democrat in the Senate, Chuck Schumer, urged Majority Leader Mitch McConnell to call an emergency session to put a House-passed bill on universal background checks up for debate and a vote “immediately.”White House officials said there were no immediate plans for Trump to address the nation. Trump said Sunday he would be giving a statement on the situation Monday morning.Other presidents have used the aftermath of a national tragedy to reassure citizens, including when George W. Bush visited a mosque less than a week after the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks to stand up for Muslims in the United States and when Obama spoke emotionally after mass shootings at the Sandy Hook school in Newtown, Connecticut, and a Charleston, South Carolina, church.Trump has struggled to convey such empathy and support, and drew widespread criticism when he tossed paper towels like basketballs to hurricane victims in Puerto Rico. He has also, at times, seemed to welcome violence toward immigrants. At a May rally in Panama City Beach, Florida, Trump bemoaned legal protections for migrants and asked rhetorically, “How do you stop these people?”“Shoot them!” cried one audience member.Trump chuckled and said, “Only in the Panhandle you can get away with that statement.”
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Opinion: America's weekend of terror
Nearly 30 people have been shot dead in El Paso and Dayton. Don't expect the violence to end — the US won't tighten its gun laws, and the president continues to sow hatred, says DW Washington correspondent Carla Bleiker.
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Bus Carrying Afghan Journalists Attacked in Kabul
VOA’s Ibrahim Rahimi contributed to this report from Paktia, Afghanistan.
A mini-bus carrying the employees of a private television station in Afghanistan has been struck by a magnetic bomb pasted to the vehicle, killing two people and injuring three others, all civilians, Afghan officials said Sunday.Nasrat Rahimi, a spokesperson for the Afghan Ministry of Interior Affairs said Sunday that a bomb was placed inside the vehicle carrying the employees of Khorshid TV, a privately-owned TV station that is headquartered in the capital, Kabul.According to officials, two people have been killed in the attack including the driver of the vehicle and a civilian passing by. Three others were wounded, two are employees of Khorshid TV and the third person is a civilian who was near the vehicle.No group has immediately claimed responsibility for the attack, but this is not the first time that journalists have been targeted in the country by militant groups.Incident follows reporter’s killingLast month, unknown armed assailants killed a reporter for a local radio station in Afghanistan’s eastern Paktia province.Nader Shah Sahibzada, a reporter for Voice of Gardiz local radio, went missing in July and authorities found his body a day later near his home in the capital city, Gardiz.Nader Shah Sahibzada, a reporter for Voice of Gardiz local radio in Paktia province, in seen in an undated social media photo.Initial autopsy reports suggest that Sahibzada had been severely tortured and stabbed to death.No group claimed responsibility for Sahibzada’s killing, but in June the Taliban warned Afghan media outlets that if they do not stop what the militant group called “anti-Taliban statements”, they would be targeted.“Those who continue doing so will be recognized by the group as military targets who are helping the Western-backed government of Afghanistan,” the insurgent group said in a statement.“Reporters and staff members will not remain safe,” the statement added.Violence a dead-end streetBoth the U.S. and Afghanistan condemned Taliban’s threats against the Afghan media outlets.“Freedom of expression and attacks on media organizations is in contradiction to human and Islamic values,” Afghan President Ashraf Ghani’s office said in a statement.John Bass, the U.S. ambassador to Afghanistan, said in a tweet that the Taliban should stop threatening Afghan journalists.“More violence, against journalists or civilians, will not bring security and opportunity to Afghanistan, nor will it help the Taliban reach their political objectives,” Bass said.Sunday’s attack is not an isolated incident. According to media advocacy groups in Afghanistan, so far this year seven local journalists have been killed by militants excluding Sunday’s attack.FILE - Afghans take part in a burial ceremony of a journalist, in Kabul, Afghanistan, June 7, 2016. Fifteen journalists were reportedly killed in the country in 2018.Deadliest place for journalistsParis-based Reporters Without Borders (RSF), which advocates for freedom of the press around the world, reported that Afghanistan was the world’s deadliest country for journalists in 2018 followed by Syria.The group said in its annual report in late December that 15 journalists have been killed in Afghanistan and 11 others have been killed in Syria, making both countries the deadliest places for journalists around the world.The increased fatalities among journalists in Afghanistan is due in part to bombings and shootings that targeted media workers.In April of 2018, a double bombing in Kabul killed nine journalists, including six Radio Free Europe reporters.The Islamic State (IS) terror group claimed responsibility for those attacks, which they said deliberately targeted journalists.Some materials used in this report came from Reuters.
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Egypt: Cairo hit by deadly explosion
Authorities have not yet said what caused the explosion that killed seventeen people in central Cairo. The explosion occurred after multiple cars collided outside the National Cancer Institute.
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France, Germany Condemn Russia Protest Crackdown
France and Germany on Sunday condemned a Russian police crackdown on a banned opposition rally that saw hundreds detained, with Paris criticizing an "excessive use of force" after a second weekend of protests over the exclusion of opposition candidates from local Moscow polls next month.Berlin said the police action on Saturday "violated" Russia's international obligations and undermines the right to fair elections in the country.The arrests on Saturday were "out of all proportion to the peaceful nature of the protests against the exclusion of independent candidates" from city elections in Moscow, the German government said.Crowds had walked along the capital's central boulevard in a protest "stroll" over the refusal by officials to let opposition candidates run in September polls for city parliament seats -- a local issue that has turned into a political crisis.Police say 1,500 people took part in the demonstration.AFP observed dozens of arrests along the route, as police formed human chains and grabbed people indiscriminately.Sobol detained againAn ally of detained opposition leader Alexei Navalny, Lyubov Sobol, who is currently three weeks into a hunger strike after being barred from taking part in the election, was dragged from a taxi and detained as she set off for the rally.FILE - Russian opposition candidate and lawyer at the Foundation for Fighting Corruption Lyubov Sobol, center, and others stand in front of a police line during a protest in Moscow, Russia, July 14, 2019.Hours later she was taken to court where she was fined 300,000 rubles ($4,600) for a gathering on July 15, and held for further questioning over the protest last weekend, her team said.A French foreign ministry spokesman said in a statement that Paris "insists on freedom of expression in all its forms, including that of demonstrating peacefully and taking part in free and transparent elections."France "calls on Russia to immediately free the people incarcerated in recent days and to conform to its commitments as a member of the OSCE and the Council of Europe," the statement said.Berlin condemned "the repeated interference in the guaranteed right to peaceful assembly and freedom of expression" which "violates Russia's international obligations and strongly questions the right to free and fair elections".Sunday's statements from Berlin and Paris follow an appeal last Monday calling on Moscow to release 1,400 other protesters detained after a similar demonstration on July 27.FILE - A handout image made available on the official website of Russia's opposition leader Alexei Navalny (Navalny.com) July 29, 2019, shows him sitting on a hospital bed in Moscow.Navalny criminal probeAccording to the independent protest monitor OVD-Info, some 828 people were detained during the latest rally on Saturday in Moscow.Authorities also upped the pressure on Navalny, a top Kremlin critic, by launching a criminal probe into his anti-graft group on Saturday.Navalny was rushed from his cell to hospital last weekend in an incident his personal doctor said could be poisoning with an unknown chemical substance.A state toxicology lab said no traces were found.President Vladimir Putin has yet to comment on the situation in Moscow.
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'Ateswa na kudhulumiwa’: Kisa cha mwanamke wa kisomali libya
Leyla anakumbuka siku mume wake alijichoma moto baada ya kugundua majini yao hayako katika orodha ya wakimbizi ya Umoja wa Mataifa.
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