CNN – Europe/Mideast/Africa

By Nimi Princewill and Stephanie Busari, CNN Officials in Eswatini, Africa’s lone absolute monarchy, have denied the King has fled following a series of pro-democracy protests in the tiny southern African country. King Mswati III has ruled the country for 35 years. This is despite South Africa’s public broadcaster, SABC, reporting Monday that Mswati, 53,

By Nimi Princewill and Stephanie Busari, CNN Officials in Eswatini, Africa’s lone absolute monarchy, have denied the King has fled following a series of pro-democracy protests in the tiny southern African country. King Mswati III has ruled the country for 35 years. This is despite South Africa’s public broadcaster, SABC, reporting Monday that Mswati, 53,

By Nimi Princewill, CNN As Victoria Chiamaka Udeh strutted confidently down the runway during a beauty pageant in Russia, brandishing her country’s red-stained flag, she thought only of one thing — the young people who lost their lives during the #EndSars protests in Nigeria last year. The Nigerian student and model was intent on using

By Kareem Khadder, CNN Israeli forces have demolished a building in the East Jerusalem neighborhood of Al Bustan, the first in what locals fear could be a string of demolitions in the area. The operation comes during a period of heightened tension in Jerusalem, with Palestinian residents in another neighborhood, Sheikh Jarrah, facing the threat

By Kareem Khadder, CNN Israeli forces have demolished a building in the East Jerusalem neighborhood of Al Bustan, the first in what locals fear could be a string of demolitions in the area. The operation comes during a period of heightened tension in Jerusalem, with Palestinian residents in another neighborhood, Sheikh Jarrah, facing the threat

By Hira Humayun, CNN Abu Dhabi will only allow vaccinated people into some public spaces starting August 20, the government media office for the Emirati capital announced in a statement on Monday. The Abu Dhabi Emergency, Crisis and Disasters Committee made the decision “after vaccinating 93 percent of target groups in the emirate and to

By Hira Humayun, CNN Abu Dhabi will only allow vaccinated people into some public spaces starting August 20, the government media office for the Emirati capital announced in a statement on Monday. The Abu Dhabi Emergency, Crisis and Disasters Committee made the decision “after vaccinating 93 percent of target groups in the emirate and to

By Zamira Rahim and Stephanie Halasz, CNN Algerian authorities have seized half a ton of cocaine floating off the country’s coast, after fishermen in the area raised the alarm. The fishermen spotted and reported suspicious bags floating in the water near Oran, a port city, on Saturday night, according to a press release from Algeria’s

By Zamira Rahim and Stephanie Halasz, CNN Algerian authorities have seized half a ton of cocaine floating off the country’s coast, after fishermen in the area raised the alarm. The fishermen spotted and reported suspicious bags floating in the water near Oran, a port city, on Saturday night, according to a press release from Algeria’s

By David McKenzie, Amy Cassidy and Rob Picheta, CNN South Africa’s highest court found former President Jacob Zuma guilty of contempt of court and sentenced him to 15 months in prison on Tuesday, a landmark move in the country’s long-running corruption saga. The Constitutional Court of South Africa ordered that Zuma present himself at a

By Nimi Princewill, CNN As Victoria Chiamaka Udeh strutted confidently down the runway during a beauty pageant in Russia, brandishing her country’s red-stained flag, she thought only of one thing — the young people who lost their lives during the #EndSars protests in Nigeria last year. The Nigerian student and model was intent on using

By Zahra Ullah and Anna Chernova, CNN If you ask the Kremlin whether Covid-19 vaccination in Russia is voluntary, its officials will tell you it is. Yet authorities in Moscow have put together a policy that essentially gives people in public-facing roles little choice but to get their shots. Faced with stubbornly low vaccination rates,

By Zahra Ullah and Anna Chernova, CNN If you ask the Kremlin whether Covid-19 vaccination in Russia is voluntary, its officials will tell you it is. Yet authorities in Moscow have put together a policy that essentially gives people in public-facing roles little choice but to get their shots. Faced with stubbornly low vaccination rates,

By Gianluca Mezzofiore, Katie Polglase, Nima Elbagir and Barbara Arvanitidis, CNN A few scattered human bones lay on the rocky ground, along with a broken skull and several half-burned identification cards. That is all the villagers could find, six months after Ethiopian troops rounded up their loved ones and shot them at point-blank range, throwing

By Tomas Etzler and Mitchell McCluskey, CNN Czech President Milos Zeman called transgender people “disgusting” in an interview on CNN affiliate CNN Prima News on Sunday, during a discussion of a controversial new law in Hungary. The Hungarian law bans all educational materials and programs for children that are considered to promote homosexuality, gender reassignment

By Zamira Rahim, CNN South Africa’s government is considering allowing women to have multiple husbands, a possibility that has thrown the country’s conservatives into uproar. The proposal to allow polyandry was included in a green paper from South Africa’s Department of Home Affairs, which hopes to make marriage more inclusive. The option is just one