Tanzania Minister of Agriculture, Daniel Chongolo, on Tuesday told the parliament that the country has attained a 130 per cent food self-sufficiency rate following increased agricultural production in the 2024/2025 farming season.Mr Chongolo said this while presenting the ministry’s budget proposals for the 2026/2027 financial year in Dodoma, Tanzania. He said that the total food crop production rose to…
Germany’s birth rate has fallen to its lowest level since 1946, official data showed Tuesday, as the country struggles with the challenges of an ageing population. There were around 654,300 births in 2025, statistics agency Destatis said, compared with 677,117 the previous year—a drop of around 3.4 percent. It was the fourth year in a row that the number…
The UN Secretary-General, António Guterres, has urged South Africa to end xenophobic attacks and the intimidation of foreign nationals in the country. Guterres, in a statement issued by his spokesperson, Mr Stéphane Dujarric, expressed deep concern over the situation and strongly condemned criminal acts and incitement to violence against migrants in parts of KwaZulu-Natal and the Eastern Cape Province….
Britain’s King Charles III met Donald Trump at the White House on Monday, kicking off a high-stakes state visit shadowed by transatlantic tensions and a fresh alleged attempt to assassinate the US president. Behind the warm welcome for Charles and Queen Camilla in front of the cameras lay a deepening rift in the “special relationship” between Washington and London…
Elon Musk’s courtroom showdown with Sam Altman got underway here Monday with the start of jury selection in a trial over the billionaire’s accusation that his OpenAI co-founders betrayed a non-profit mission to build artificial intelligence for the good of humanity and not for the money. The legal clash in a courtroom across the bay from San Francisco pits…
The death toll in a Colombian highway bombing blamed on cocaine-trafficking rebels has risen to 21, the government said Monday, in the country’s worst attack on civilians in decades and just ahead of elections. Saturday’s bombing in the southwestern Cauca department which the government blamed on guerrillas opposed to a decade-old peace process, comes one month before Colombia holds…
