In a recent interview, Reserve Bank of Malawi (RBM) Deputy Governor McDonald Mafuta Mwale expressed optimism about the country’s inflation rate, currently at 34.3 percent, indicating that it may soon begin to decline. Mafuta Mwale highlighted the central bank’s observations of easing pressures on prices, particularly within the non-food sector, which has seen inflation decrease […] The post RBM Deputy Governor optimistic as inflation shows signs of easing appeared first on Malawi Nyasa Times - News from Malawi about Malawi.

Recent revelations from Z Allan Ntata, former legal advisor to the late President Bingu wa Mutharika, have shed light on a troubling chapter in the establishment of the Malawi University of Science and Technology (MUST). According to Ntata, Mutharika had intentions to personalize the university, originally funded through a public loan, for his own benefit […] The post Revealed: Bingu wanted to use $80m public loan to construct personal university on his land  appeared first on Malawi Nyasa Times - News from Malawi about Malawi.

Reigning champions Senegal thrashed Malawi 6-1 in the Beach Soccer Africa Cup of Nations (Bsfacon) in Burgada, Egypt. With the loss, Malawi have been booted out of the as it anchors group B with no point in the group which has also Mauritania and Mozambique, All teams have three points and Malawi’s best finish would […] The post Ruthless Senegal shows flames to Malawi at Beach Soccer Afcon with 6-1 thrash appeared first on Malawi Nyasa Times - News from Malawi about Malawi.

As Lilongwe City continues to grow, officials are taking proactive steps to manage the impact of heavy vehicles on traffic and infrastructure. Starting this month, a new truck permit system has been introduced, targeting vehicles weighing over 15 tons. The system aims to alleviate traffic congestion, prevent road damage, and enhance safety within the city. […] The post Lilongwe City Implements Truck Permit System to Regulate Heavy Vehicles appeared first on Malawi Nyasa Times - News from Malawi about Malawi.

 The National Oil Company of Malawi (NOCMA) has announced a significant milestone in its fuel distribution efforts, successfully hauling 2 million litres of fuel into the country. This operation, conducted via the Central and Eastern Africa Railway (CEAR), highlights NOCMA’s ongoing commitment to enhancing fuel availability amid previous shortages. According to NOCMA’s Public Relations Officer, […] The post NOCMA successfully hauls 2 million litres of Petrol into Malawi, easing supply concerns appeared first on Malawi Nyasa Times - News from Malawi about Malawi.

Police in western Newfoundland say a 77-year-old man visiting the province from Kansas is missing after a fire at a hotel in Deer Lake, N.L.

In the first of a four-part investigation into the seedy underbelly of the lucrative clothing donation bin industry, CTV W5 puts a spotlight on how some of the clothes Canadians donate to charity end up in markets in Africa.

« Il n'y aura jamais de constitution parfaite, parce que la constitution est d'abord et avant tout un instrument de régulation du jeu politique ». Docteur en science politique, M. Octave Dioba Mickomba nous livre dans cet entretien, ses analyses sur le débat constitutionnel en cours dans notre pays, ainsi que d'autres sujets d'actualité. Les débats sur la constitution semblent s'éterniser dans le pays, malgré la remise de la mouture finale par le Président de la Transition. Comment (...) - POLITIQUE / SUJET_ECRIT_MAISON

Russian President Putin says boosting the use of local currencies in trade settlements among BRICS member states reduces geopolitical risks Read Full Article at RT.com

While Kai cosied up to the Love Island star, his ex Nadiya Bychkova spoke out about their split earlier in the evening - as she arrived solo on the red carpet.

The former Strictly Come Dancing professional, 34, appeared on Lorraine on Tuesday to speak about the probe, after he told the full story to the Mail's Katie Hind.

Martyn Blake is having to live in hiding, fearing for his life and his family after a £10,000 reward was offered to anyone prepared to kill him in revenge for the death of Chris Kaba in South London in 2022.

The £800,000 fortune of 'stubborn and old-fashioned' Carry Keats, from Nomansland in Wiltshire, is at the centre of a High Court fight between her relatives.

Inmates have been greeted by family members as more than 1,200 prisoners are expected to be freed early across England and Wales today.

«As the country presiding over BRICS this year, we are looking forward to your proactive participation in the meeting of leaders at the BRICS Summit in Kazan,» the Russian president said

«Holding a large-scale BRICS meeting in Kazan, which brings together a large number of delegations from the global majority, may give an impetus to building »a new system of international relations," Oleg Karpovich said

The 35 billion euro loan from the EU is intended to become part of the G7 credit tranche, which should total $50 billion, or 45 billion euros

According to the Russian leader, the work at the BRICS Summit will begin already in the evening

«We hope to reach good agreements in energy, industry, trade and tourism,» Masoud Pezeshkian noted

SINGAPORE — The two men were involved in grassroots activities of the Trivelis Residents' Network, which serves the Trivelis estate at Clementi Ave 4. But in the late afternoon of Monday (Oct 21), shouts and screams shattered the peace of the estate as one of the men, a 50-year-old, attacked the other man, a 41-year-old. The latter was taken to Ng Teng Fong General Hospital where he died, and the suspect was arrested. They were residents of the estate.

The authorities have disabled access to 10 inauthentic websites set up by foreign actors. These websites could be used to mount hostile information campaigns (HICs) against Singapore, said the Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA) and Infocomm Media Development Authority (IMDA) in a joint statement on Tuesday (Oct 22).  The Broadcasting Act allows the authorities to issue directions to take action against content that does not comply with regulations.  Investigations revealed that these inauthentic websites were designed to look like genuine Singapore websites through their domain names and incorporating familiar local features and visuals.  Two of the banned websites utilised domain names similar to popular local websites, such as www.zaobaodaily.com, a name similar to local Chinese news outlet Lianhe Zaobao. 

The Republican nominee is closing out his third consecutive White House bid with a loud, ostentatious campaign that has thrust his conduct to the center of a photo-finish battle.

Donald Trump and allies are increasingly targeting transgender people in the election’s closing days, invoking them as boogeymen and pouring millions into ads

The West should discuss deploying a “conventional deterrence” package in Ukraine to deter Russia, the French Defense Minister says Read Full Article at RT.com

The US has warned Budapest about a violent plot being organized in Hungary, the Telex news outlet has reported Read Full Article at RT.com

Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi is embarking on his second trip to Russia this year for the 16th annual BRICS Summit in Kazan Read Full Article at RT.com

The Argentine government is planning to liquidate the current tax authority and establish a new one, chopping a third of jobs Read Full Article at RT.com

An Italian mafia boss and alleged drugs kingpin has been detained in Colombia after being located via his pool table, local police have said Read Full Article at RT.com

C'est conformément à l'article 7 des statuts du parti REAGIR qui consigne l'esprit de collégialité et de consensus comme mode de fonctionnement que le Bureau Exécutif de cette formation politique a fait une déclaration pour rappeler le président statutaire, Francois Ndong Obiang à l'ordre. C'était ce lundi 21 octobre 2024 à son siège, quarante huit heures seulement après le renouvellement des organes centraux au sein du parti. Le parti Réappropriation du Gabon, de son Indépendance pour (...) - POLITIQUE / SUJET_ECRIT_MAISON

US Secretary of State Antony Blinken was in Israel Tuesday to push for a ceasefire in Gaza after his administration called for an end to the war in Lebanon «as soon as possible». It is his 11th trip to the Middle East since Hamas's attack on Israel more than a year ago triggered the Gaza war, and his first since Israel's conflict with Hezbollah escalated late last month. He is due to meet Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and other top officials, as Israel weighs its response to Iran's October 1 missile attack. In Lebanon, Israel hit an area of south Beirut housing the country's largest public health facility, killing 13 people, according to the health ministry. The Rafic Hariri Hospital, located outside Hezbollah's traditional strongholds, sustained minor damage in the strike which flattened four buildings in its vicinity, said an AFP correspondent in the area. Previous US efforts to end the Gaza war and contain the regional fallout have failed, as did a bid spearheaded by President Joe Biden and his French counterpart Emmanuel Macron to secure a temporary ceasefire in Lebanon. After Israel, Blinken will visit Jordan on Wednesday and discuss humanitarian aid for the Gaza Strip, an official on the plane with him said. Blinken also plans to speak to Israeli leaders about the expected strike on Iran and discourage any move that could massively escalate regional conflict, the official said. - Night of strikes - On Monday, US envoy to Lebanon Amos Hochstein said his administration was seeking an end to the war «as soon as possible» as he pushed for a ceasefire based on a UN resolution that had ended an earlier Israel-Hezbollah war. Under resolution 1701, Hezbollah should have withdrawn from areas in south Lebanon near the Israeli border, leaving only the country's weak military and UN peacekeepers deployed there. But Hezbollah remained south of Lebanon's Litani River, and in October last year began launching low-intensity cross-border strikes into Israel, in support of its Palestinian ally Hamas. After nearly a year of war in Gaza, Israel shifted its focus to Lebanon, vowing to secure its northern border to allow tens of thousands of Israelis displaced by the cross-border fire to return to their homes. Israel ramped up its air strikes on Hezbollah strongholds around the country and on September 30 sent in ground troops, in a war that has killed at least 1,489 people since September 23, according to an AFP tally of Lebanese health ministry figures. The strike on Monday night came as Israel targeted Beirut's southern suburbs with heavy fire following evacuation warnings. The densely populated Ouzai neighbourhood a few kilometres (miles) from the city centre was hit for the first time in the conflict, sparking an exodus of residents. The Israeli military said it was targeting Hezbollah's naval unit, and that it had issued an evacuation warning. A Lebanese security official told AFP that the country's national airline had to switch landing strips after Israeli strikes near Beirut's only international airport hit close to the main runway. Hezbollah on Tuesday said it launched rockets targeting two positions in the suburbs of Israel's commercial hub Tel Aviv, including an intelligence base. It also said it targeted Israel's «Stella Maris naval base» near the northern city of Haifa, and that its militants had clashed with Israeli troops near a village at the border. In a war-hit area along the Lebanese border, AFP footage showed huge clouds of smoke rising following Israeli strikes on the village of Khiam, as trails of smoke from Hezbollah rockets fired towards Israel could also be seen. The wars in Gaza and Lebanon have also drawn in other Iran-aligned armed groups, including in Yemen, Syria and Iraq. Iran on Tuesday said it had received assurances from its neighbours that they would not allow the use of their airspace for any attack against it, after Israel pledged to hit back against its October 1 missile attack. - 'We will die of hunger' - In the Gaza Strip, Israel launched a major air and ground assault in northern Gaza earlier this month, vowing to stop Hamas militants from regrouping in the area. Gaza's civil defence agency said four Palestinians were killed in strikes on Monday, while several homes were blown up in the northern area of Jabalia, a focal point of the recent fighting. A displaced resident said Jabalia «is being wiped out». «If we don't die from the bombing and gunfire, we will die of hunger,» said 42-year-old Umm Firas Shamiyah, demanding aid be sent to the north. Tens of thousands of people are estimated to have fled the assault on northern Gaza, and according to the UN agency for Palestinian refugees around 400,000 people were trapped in the area last week. The UN has warned of the risk of famine in Gaza, its figures showing that 396 aid trucks have entered the territory so far this month -- far below the 3,003 seen in September. The war was sparked by Hamas's unprecedented attack on Israel on October 7 last year, which resulted in the deaths of 1,206 people, mostly civilians, according to an AFP tally of official Israeli figures. Israel's offensive in Gaza has killed 42,718 people, a majority civilians, according to data from the health ministry in the Hamas-run territory, figures the UN considers reliable. © Agence France-Presse

 Joyce Lakela runs a nursery in Tembisa, a Johannesburg township, but these days she spends most of her time trying to find water. «It's been going on for five days,» she said, lamenting shortages affecting South Africa's largest city where temperatures are rising with the beginning of summer. «This is a big challenge,» the elderly woman said, after filling up a large bin with water from a tanker. «The kids have to wash their hands, we have to flush the toilets, and we also have to wash the kids.» The crisis is the result of daily restrictions imposed by the city to stop what they say is over-consumption and to allow maintenance work. While there is enough water in the country's reserves, for individuals like Lakela, who already faced months of electricity shortages last year, the reality is that taps are going dry for hours and sometimes days. Last week, residents of Westbury and Westdene, suburbs to the west of the central business district, blocked the streets in protest against water outages. They burned tyres and blocked a road with rocks and debris. Businesses and services have also been affected, including at least one hospital in northern Gauteng, the province of 16 million people which includes Johannesburg and the capital, Pretoria. - Delays, leaks - This comes after Rand Water, the water supplier for Gauteng, this month warned over high water consumption and instructed municipalities to impose daily limits. «Water storage could soon be depleted if municipalities do not implement our recommendations. It is essential to act now to prevent the impending disaster,» Rand Water said in a statement on October 12. The water company is not just worried about consumers leaving taps on. There are also leaks and «illegal connections», or theft by individuals who divert pipelines and do not pay bills. «We are losing an average of over 40 percent (of our water) if you look at it in Gauteng,» Makenosi Marooa a spokeswoman for the utility told AFP. Leaks are often cited by the municipalities as a reason for maintenance-related outages. «We're not replacing anywhere near as much infrastructure as we should be,» said Craig Sheridan, director of the Centre in Water Research and Development at the University of the Witwatersrand in Johannesburg. For Chris Herold, another water expert, «one of the main problems is that they (the municipalities) are incompetently run, and there's also a lot of corruption which is hindering the efficient running of water systems.» Municipalities insist that they are doing what they can with the resources they have. According to at least one city in the province, Ekurhuleni, it is the utility that is not providing enough water and leaving the reservoirs empty. But Rand Water is only licensed to withdraw a fixed amount approved by the Department of Water and Sanitation. Already back in 2009, it was clear that more was needed as Gauteng's population was rapidly expanding. The government made a deal with neighbouring Lesotho to expand the bulk water supply to Rand Water. The project initially meant for 2018 has been delayed until 2028 and as a result, sporadic restrictions to reduce demand are likely to continue. - Climate change - The rules could become more severe if South Africans do not change their habits, authorities have warned, adding that there could also be «financial implications». The country is already considered water scarce, with an average annual precipitation of 450mm per year compared to the global annual average of 786mm per year, and a warming planet will exacerbate the issue. Under a moderate climate change scenario, in which global emissions peak around 2040 and then decline, the amount of precipitation could fall by as much as 25 percent in South Africa by the end of the century. The estimates were released in a report published this month by the Global Commission on the Economics of Water. «There's definitely a sense of urgency,» said Sheridan, who is particularly concerned by the health risks linked to turning water systems on and off, which has been South Africa's short term solution. «When a pipe is full of water, the water leaks out of it. If the pipe is empty, then a leaking sewer next to it can potentially contaminate the supply.» © Agence France-Presse

Since the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) entered into force in 2018, the European Commission has published two reports on its application. The second report stresses the need for consistent interpretation and enforcement of the GDPR, highlighting ongoing challenges such as divergent national interpretations, difficulties in cooperation among regulatory bodies, and obstacles faced by organisations in achieving compliance. Source : © European Union, 2024 - EP