Moegammad Fasiegh Petersen, Author at Voice of the Cape

Tunisia’s President Saied to strengthen diplomatic ties with Syria

Tunisia and Syria will be strengthening their diplomatic ties, President Kais Saied announced on Thursday. Tunisia cut off diplomatic relations with Syria about a decade ago, in protest against President Bashar al-Assad's suppression of the 2011 popular uprising that sought to remove him from power. Tunisia returned a limited diplomatic mission to Syria in 2017. At a meeting in Carthage Palace on Thursday, Saied and Nabil Ammar, the new minister of foreign affairs, […]

10 February 2023

International

Saudi Arabia increases US citizen’s sentence to 19 years over tweets

An appeals court in Saudi Arabia has increased the prison sentence of US citizen Saad Al-Madi over a series of political tweets from 16 years to 19 years, his son Ibrahim has revealed. According to the New York Post, a State Department official informed Ibrahim of the decision after the White House publicly condemned his father's detention after he was jailed in October 2022 over allegedly criticising the government in 14 tweets, the […]

10 February 2023

Local

Appointing minister of electricity is a bad idea, Business Unity SA

Business Unity South Africa (Busa) says the appointment of a minister for electricity in the office of the president is a bad idea. Busa was reacting to the state of the nation address (Sona) delivered by President Cyril Ramaphosa on Thursday evening. “It must be seen as a low point in the life of our society that mismanagement and lack of governance has created circumstances in which a state of […]

10 February 2023

Local

Declaring energy crisis a national state of disaster is ill-considered: DA

Democratic Alliance (DA) Leader, John Steenhuisen, says it was ill considered for President Cyril Ramaphosa to declare the electricity crisis a National State of Disaster. Steenhuisen was reacting to Ramaphosa’s announcement that Co-operative Governance Minister, Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma, has already gazetted the state of disaster. “Well, I think the big concern for us is the National State of Disaster. We believe that it is ill-considered. We saw the looting and maladministration that […]

10 February 2023

International

Main goal is to deny Iran nuclear weapons, says Germany

Germany, on Wednesday, reiterated that the main objective is to prevent Iran from acquiring nuclear weapons, as talks over reviving the 2015 nuclear deal remain stalled, Anadolu News Agency reports. "Our goal in the entire game … is, and remains, to prevent Iran from being nuclear-armed, and we do not want a nuclear weapons race in the Near and Middle East," Foreign Ministry spokeswoman, Andrea Sasse, told reporters in Berlin. "It's a very serious […]

9 February 2023

Local

Smart Supplier Programme, applications open

The City is launching the Smart Supplier Program application process to City-registered businesses this week. The seventh year of the program will be made possible by Smart Procurement World. “Platforms such as this are crucial to small businesses because they provide knowledge and an understanding of the skills necessary to deal with challenges that can stifle growth. The first phase of the Smart Supplier Programme kicks off with 150 vendors […]

9 February 2023

International

Turkey earthquake: Aid not reaching northwest Syria as border guards affected

UN aid is not reaching opposition-held territory in northwest Syria due to customs officials at the Turkish border being personally impacted by Monday’s earthquake, officials and humanitarian workers have told MEE. More than 11,000 people have died after a 7.8-magnitude quake struck the southeastern Turkish city of Gaziantep on Monday morning. A second, 7.5-magnitude earthquake hit Turkey's Kahramanmaras province shortly after. The death toll was at least 8,579 in Turkey and 2,530 in Syria, as […]

9 February 2023

Local

IFP seeks clarity from Police Minister over assassination claims

The Inkatha Freedom Party (IFP) has sought clarity from Police Minister Bheki Cele and the State Security Agency regarding the assassination allegations that have been levelled against the party. On Tuesday, the Economic freedom Fighters (EFF) released a statement in which it claimed that police had tipped it off that senior IFP leaders were plotting to assassinate its secretary-general, Marshall Dlamini. The accusations follow a fallout between the two parties in KwaZulu-Natal last week […]

9 February 2023

International

Palestine’s Haniyeh in Egypt for talks

The head of Hamas' political bureau Ismail Haniyeh arrived in Cairo yesterday evening heading a delegation of the movement's senior leaders to hold talks with Egyptian officials on recent developments in Palestine. The delegation's talks with the Egyptian leadership are expected to cover the dangerous measures taken by the Israeli occupation authorities in Jerusalem and Al-Aqsa Mosque, the escalation of Israeli aggression against the Palestinian people, assassinations targeting Palestinians and […]

9 February 2023

Moegammad Fasiegh

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