•Speaker Nosiviwe Mapisa-Nqakula South Africa’s parliament speaker resigned yesterday, weeks after her home was raided in a graft probe likely to hurt the ruling African National Congress heading into May elections. In a resignation letter seen by AFP, Nosiviwe Mapisa-Nqakula said she decided to step down with immediate effect to uphold the in...
•Speaker of South Africa’s Parliament, Nosiviwe Mapisa-Nqakula Investigators raided the house of South Africa’s National Assembly speaker today as part of a corruption probe, prosecutors and parliament said, prompting opposition calls for her to resign. Coming just over two months before national elections, the raid adds to the woes of the rul...
•Theresa May Former UK Prime Minister, Theresa May, today announced that she will stand down as a member of parliament at the next general election, due to take place later this year. May, 67, is the most senior member of Prime Minister Rishi Sunak’s Conservative party to announce they will not seek re-election, reports AFP. […]
•UK Parliament Pro-Palestinian protesters and politicians responded in outrage yesterday when a United Kingdom parliamentary debate and vote on a Scottish National Party motion calling for a ceasefire in Gaza ended with the adoption of a Labour Party amendment. The SNP had put forward a call “for an immediate ceasefire in Gaza and Israel,” con...
•South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol and first lady Kim Keon Hee posing with puppies South Korea’s parliament is expected to vote today to ban eating dog meat and its trade, a traditional practice that activists have long called an international embarrassment for the country. Dog meat has long been a part of South Korean […]
•President Umaro Sissoco Embalo The president of Guinea-Bissau issued a decree today dissolving the parliament after an attempted coup in the West African nation. “The date of forthcoming legislative elections will be set at the opportune moment, in line with the constitution,” President Umaro Sissoco Embalo said in a communique.