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Explainer: What's at stake in Congo's presidential election?

DAKAR (Reuters) – Democratic Republic of Congo will vote on Dec. 23 in a long-delayed election that could enable the vast Central African country’s first democratic transfer of power since independence from Belgium in 1960. President Joseph Kabila is due to step down after 18 years in the office he inherited from his assassinated father, and two years after his […]

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Six-year-old KICKS rugby ball into a BASKETBALL hoop

Six-year-old shows off his astonishing rugby skills when he KICKS the ball into a BASKETBALL hoop Little Oscar Herbert kicks rugby ball through the hoop on his second attempt   He lines up the ball exactly before attempting feat in Northampton playground His father, Gary, had bet him £10 he couldn’t make the shot moments earlier  This is the astonishing […]

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U.S. says air strikes killed 62 militants in Somalia

NAIROBI (Reuters) – The U.S. military said on Monday it had killed 62 militants in six air strikes over the weekend in the vicinity of Gandarsh in Somalia’s south-central Banaadir province. The military’s Africa Command (Africom) said four strikes were carried out on Saturday, killing 34 militants, and two more on Sunday, which killed 28. “Africa Command and our Somali […]

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China’s Muslim internment camps run like ‘wartime concentration camps’

China’s Muslim internment camps run like ‘wartime concentration camps’ where one million Uighurs are allegedly detained and ‘turned into forced labour’ Xinjiang camps are comparable in scale to concentration camps, Amnesty said Detainees are sent to factories after ‘graduating’ from the camps, report claimed They were forced to make clothes under tough conditions and earned low wages Internment camps in […]

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