In his 36th year as president of Zimbabwe, Robert Mugabe confirmed in a speech that it was time for him to step down. On July 18th, 2016 Mugabe attended a celebration in Harare to mark the occasion of the 24th Children’s Parliament that was held in connection to the Day of
On 10th May 2016, at least four people were killed in Maiduguri, in northeastern Borno state in Nigeria. The number of dead is currently unconfirmed. Reuters reported that at least five were killed and 19 injured. The Nigerian Vanguard claimed that only two police officials who guarded the gates of
The world’s oldest leader, 92-year old Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe, has been in power since the country gained independence in 1980. He has been clinging to his presidency, even in the most fruitless situations, ever since. Though he is heavily criticised by foreign politicians and human rights officials, he
On Monday, 18 April 2016, two residents of Lusaka were killed by an anti-foreigner mob. The attacks were a result of xenophobic accusations which have been ongoing since at least seven Zambians were murdered recently and their body parts were removed – supposedly for witchcraft purposes. The riot targeted Rwandan born
On April 15, gunmen from South Sudan carried out attacks on ten different villages in Ethiopia’s Gambella region. The incident left around 140 people dead on the Ethiopian side, and the South Sudanese forces lost around 60 of their men. According to a source from the Ethiopian government, they chased
On 12th February 2016 a MINUSMA camp in the Northern Malian city of Kidal was attacked by Islamist militia. During the attack at least 6 Guinean peacekeepers were killed and around thirty other soldiers were left injured. The al-Qaeda affiliated Malian jihadist group, Ansar Dine has claimed responsibility for
On February 1st, 2016, the World Health Organization declared an international public health emergency over the Zika virus, which is a virus with flu-like symptoms that is spread by mosquitos. The recent Zika epidemic was first reported in northwest Brazil in May of 2015, and it quickly spread to other
On the 15th of January, 2016, Al-Shabaab militants drove a car against the gate of a peacekeeping camp in Somalia. After the explosion, the attackers fought their way into the complex and killed or injured several Kenyan troops. The Islamist group claimed that they had killed more than a 100 peacekeepers from
Daily News Hungary received an e-mail on 15 December containing a video message in which the well-known hacktivist group Anonymous threatens the government of Hungary. The group claims that the governing party FIDESZ cheated during the elections last spring and that Viktor Orbán, Prime Minister of Hungary, is turning
During a religious ceremony on December 21, close to the city of Djibouti, several people were killed, while many others were injured by security forces. Members of the opposition party, Union pour le Salut Nacional (USN) or Union for National Salvation were injured, including their President, Ahmed Youssouf. The USN
In 2015, around 600,000 people arrived in Europe seeking refuge from war-torn countries such as Syria, Afghanistan, and Iraq. Most of them were hoping for a better life and so they headed to Germany and Sweden, instead of staying in Eastern Europe. Since Hungary’s Serbian border gives access to the
While the world focused on the aftermath of the Parisian attacks, gunmen toting AK-47 assault riffles held 170 hostages in a luxury hotel in Bamako, the capital of Mali on November 20th. There are many unanswered questions in relation to the event, and although the scale of the attack was smaller in
Unlike other terrorist attacks in the past year, the recent events in Paris have moved the world. Not only have the authorities started to battle terrorism more fiercely, but well-known hacktivist group Anonymous also sent video messages to ISIS (Islamic State of Iraq and Syria) announcing cyber war against the organization.
