Lake Victoria, Tanzania ferry disaster death toll doubles
At least 86 people have known to have died after a ferry carrying hundreds of people capsized on Lake Victoria, Tanzania, officials say.
It is feared that more than 200 people may have drowned. Recovery efforts have resumed after being halted overnight.
The MV Nyerere ferry overturned near the shore between the islands of Ukara and Bugolora.
It is thought the overloaded vessel tipped over when crowds on board moved to one side as it docked.
Local media say the ferry's official capacity was 100 people but officials say the vessel was carrying more than 400 passengers when it capsized.
Young Africa: new wave of politicians challenges old guard
Bobi Wine’s return to Uganda highlights potential leaders testing ageing, entrenched power across the continent
A wave of young politicians and activists are challenging ageing leaders across much of Africa, reflecting seismic shifts on the continent that are poised to dramatically change the lives of hundreds of millions of people.
The new generation of politicians are in their mid-30s and can barely remember the cold war or the conflicts that brought many autocrats or ruling parties to power. Often educated and urban, they are at the intersection of massive changes that experts say may dramatically strengthen democracy in Africa in decades to come.
William Gumede, an analyst in Johannesburg, South Africa, said: “It is something to be wildly optimistic about … The big question is: how do we harness this, how do we support these younger leaders?”
Turkey pushes ahead with plans for ‘world’s biggest airport’ despite arrests of workers protesting ‘prison’ conditions
‘The workers are working under military oppression,’ says one union leader
Borzou Daragahi Istanbul
Turkish authorities are moving forward with plans to open what has been described as the world’s biggest airport late next month – after quelling days of labour unrest that led to at least 400 detentions.
But labour leaders in Turkey say hard feelings and anger among the tens of thousands of workers building Istanbul’s massive new airport persist, and few of the conditions that led to the outbreak of anger among rank-and-file workers have been resolved. A heavy presence of security forces at the airport has added to frustrations.
“The construction site is a kind of prison now,” Ozgur Karabulut, president of Turkey’s Progressive Union of Construction Workers, told The Independent in an interview. “Since Monday the workers have started to work again, but they are frustrated. The gendarmerie and police are watching over them.”
Mother of 7-year-old rape victim in India says attacker should be hanged
After raping the 7-year-old girl with a water hose in New Delhi, the attacker handed her 10 rupees and a piece of chocolate in exchange for her silence, according to her mother. He then left her -- a towel around her waist and bleeding -- near her home.
The 26-year-old mother scooped up the frightened child and asked her to point out the man, she told CNN Thursday.
"She was holding her stomach and she was bleeding," said the mother, whose name is being withheld because rape victims and their families cannot be identified under Indian law. "When I saw her blood, there was no strength left in my body."
Shin Ji-ye and her aim to challenge sexism in Korean politics
Al Jazeera speaks to 28-year-old Shin, who ran for Seoul mayor in June, about sexism and obstacles in politics.
by Faras Ghani
When South Koreans went to polls for location elections in June this year, out of the 71 candidates vying for 17 local government positions, only six of them were women.
Two of the female candidates were from Green Party Korea which was launched in 2012 and has no members in the National Assembly.
Shin Ji-ye, another of the female candidates, ran for mayor of Seoul, one of the most important political positions in the country.
China distances children from families to subdue Muslim west
By YANAN WANG and DAKE KANG
Every morning, Meripet wakes up to her nightmare: The Chinese government has turned four of her children into orphans, even though she and their father are alive.
Meripet and her husband left the kids with their grandmother at home in China when they went to nurse Meripet's sick father in Turkey. But after Chinese authorities started locking up thousands of their fellow ethnic Uighurs for alleged subversive crimes such as travel abroad, a visit became exile.
Then, her mother-in-law was also taken prisoner, and Meripet learned from a friend that her 3- to 8-year-olds had been placed in a de facto orphanage in the Xinjiang region, under the care of the state that broke up her family.
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