Mexico is suing Google for ignoring repeated requests not to call the Gulf of Mexico the Gulf of America on Google Maps for US users, President Claudia Sheinbaum has said. She did not say where the lawsuit had been filed. Google did not respond to the BBC’s request for comment. On Thursday, the Republican-led House of Representatives voted to officially rename the Gulf for federal agencies. President Donald Trump signed an executive order on his first day in office in January. He argued the change was justified because the US “do most of the work there, and it’s ours”. However…
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Tensions between India and Pakistan have escalated sharply following deadly cross-border attacks, with both sides reporting casualties and accusing each other of aggression. Pakistan’s military said it shot down 25 Indian drones that allegedly violated its airspace, while India claimed to have intercepted a Pakistani drone and missile attack targeting its military installations. In a statement issued Thursday, Pakistani Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif vowed retaliation, saying, “We will avenge the blood of our innocent martyrs.” His remarks came after at least 31 people were reportedly killed and dozens injured in Indian strikes on Pakistan’s Punjab province and Pakistan-administered Kashmir. Meanwhile,…
For over 30 years, refugees in camps across Kenya have received consistent support in the form of food, healthcare, shelter, and education. They also benefit from monthly cash transfers and access to legal and protection services. In earlier years, some Kenyan residents in the northeastern region registered in the refugee database to gain access to these services. However, following the inauguration of the new US administration, the situation has shifted dramatically. Dadaab town in Garissa County, once a hub of activity with red number-plated Land Cruisers frequently escorted by Special Operations Group police units, now appears significantly quieter. Business activity…
US President Donald Trump’s call for free passage of American ships through the Suez Canal has triggered widespread condemnation in Egypt, where legal experts, political leaders, and citizens have denounced his remarks as legally groundless and a serious threat to the international order. On Saturday, Trump posted on Truth Social, a social media platform he majority-owns, that US military and commercial vessels should be allowed to travel through both the Panama Canal and the Suez Canal free of charge. He claimed both routes would “not exist” without the United States and said he had asked Secretary of State Marco Rubio…
Brice Oligui Nguema, who led a coup in Gabon in August 2023, won Saturday’s presidential election with 90.35 per cent of votes cast, according to provisional results, the Central African country’s interior minister said on Sunday. The result cements Nguema’s grip on power 19 months after the coup ended more than half a century of rule by the Bongo family in Gabon, an oil producer with a population of around 2.5 million. Nguema’s most prominent opponent in the eight-candidate race was Alain Claude Bilie By Nze, who was serving as prime minister under President Ali Bongo at the time of…
By all accounts, South Africa’s conundrum that is the Government of National Unity (GNU) will likely fester into a debilitating wound before it gets healed anytime soon.
US Secretary of State Marco Rubio has announced that the US is immediately revoking visas issued to all South Sudanese passport holders due to the African nation refusing to accept its citizens who have been removed from the US. Rubio, in a statement on Saturday, added that the US will also block any arriving citizens of South Sudan, the world’s newest country, at US ports of entry. He blamed “the failure of South Sudan’s transitional government to accept the return of its repatriated citizens in a timely manner”. A cornerstone of President Donald Trump’s immigration policy is removing unlawful migrants…
Including the voices of persons with disabilities in the GBV conversation will yield a society and a country that is safe for all to thrive.
The Anti-Corruption Court in Milimani ruled on Wednesday that the Ethics and Anti-Corruption Commission (EACC), an independent body established under Article 79 of the Constitution with the mandate to investigate corruption, economic crimes, and ethical breaches, has the right to stand in court. While dismissing an application by the Chief Magistrate of Thika Law Courts, Hon. Atambo, that sought to bar the Commission from having a standing in Court other than through the Director of Public Prosecutions, Chief Magistrate Hon. Harrison Barasa ruled that there was no compelling reason in the application to find that EACC has no standing. This…
On March 21, EFF leader Julius Malema – a rabble-rouser of note – disrupted SA’s national peace and comfort when he chanted the controversial political slogan “kill the boer, kill the farmer”. One thing for sure Malema knew too well that no one, not even AfriForum, could haul him before the courts. In 2022, AfriForum lost the legal battle after taking the EFF and Malema to the SA Equality Court over the public chanting of “Kill the boer, kill the farmer”. The predominantly white-aligned civil rights group had argued that Malema’s chanting of the Struggle rendition in public incited violence…
