Women in most of the countries from Thailand to Poland and from the United States to Australia will be going on strike from paid and unpaid labor on Wednesday, the International Women’s Day. It is learned millions of women will take part in direct action and if succeeds as per […]

Bank of Tanzania (BoT) has slashed down the discount rate by 4 percent and with immediate effect the new rate is now 12 percent. This is a major policy stance by the central bank since President John Magufuli came to power in November 2015. In 2016 the government ordered transfer […]

Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe, 93, left for Singapore on Wednesday. His spokesman George Charamba said the trip is for scheduled medical review. Mugabe has flown overseas for his health amid such situation in the country when many major doctors and nurses of public hospitals are on a two-week strike demanding […]

A woman in Nigeria died after being thrown into a fire by a religious group to purify her soul. The 25-year-old was tied up for six days and forced to fast throughout. Police said the religious group named La Prensa is led by Juan Gregorio Rocha Romero, who is now […]

Two women from Indonesia and Vietnam have been charged with murder in the assassination of North Korean leader’s Half-Brother Kim Jong Nam. If convicted, both may be hanged in Malaysia. The 25-year-old mother of one from Jakarta, Siti Aishah, and 28-year-old Doan Thi Huong from rural northern Vietnam however claims […]

About three dozen people were killed Saturday in two suicide attacks on two Syrian security offices in the central city of Homs, the third-largest city in the country and it is largely in the control of the government. A senior security official too is learned been killed in the twin […]