Tanzanian girls need support, not threats, to avoid pregnancy: Arresting pregnant teenagers won't curb pregnancy rates. Shutterstock Teenage girls in Tanzania are routinely excluded from school if they become pregnant and are prevented from returning to complete their education. Yet a recent case in the Rukwa Region involving over 200 pregnant girls dropping out of …
Football referees: death threats, physical violence and verbal abuse are all part of the job: Match officials play an integral role in the beautiful game we call football. But what is not so beautiful about this game is the abuse that referees receive when officiating. Atletico Madrid striker Diego Costa, for example, was recently banned …
Stop VOIP Threats Before They Start With A Licensed, Local VOIP Operator: To any regular consumer of media content, the following has become a familiar story. A web user trawling the bowels of the Internet discovers a database containing gigabytes of call logs, messaging data and internal system credentials. The exposed Cloud-hosted database most often …
Don’t believe the hype about post-Brexit security threats – on either side: A no-deal Brexit would leave both the EU and UK “at greater risk of terror attacks”, security minister Ben Wallace has warned in a speech in London. He went on to add that threats that “begin in Europe” can “quickly reach the shores …
Threats to media freedom in Africa: some old methods and some new: The push to tax social media users is gaining momentum across Africa. Shutterstock The government of Benin has cancelled a recent decree that imposed a tax on users of platforms such as Twitter, Facebook and WhatsApp. Known as “over-the-top” platforms, they can deliver …
Scott Pruitt’s EPA Can’t Seem to Decide If He Received Death Threats or Not: BuzzFeed's senior investigative reporter Jason Leopold filed a Freedom of Information Act to the EPA requesting information on the death threats Pruitt reportedly received while in office, the journalist wrote in a message posted to Twitter on Saturday. In his tweet, …
When the threats get weird, the security solutions get weirder: I told you last week that some of the biggest companies in technology have been caught deliberately introducing potential vulnerabilities into mobile operating systems and making no effort to inform users. One of those was introduced into Android by Google. : Weird News Ed Sheeran’s …
South Africa in the news: Two SA passengers held at OR Tambo due to bomb threats: Cape Town – There is no such thing as an idle threat when you’ve passing through an airport, with South Africa’s busiest International hub OR Tambo seeing not one, but two alleged bomb threats in one day. Two passengers …
Growing herdsmen militancy is adding to West Africa’s security threats: Leader of Fulani herdsmen Haruna Usman pictured by Reuters in 2014 Reuters/Afolabi Sotunde The people of Agatu, a farming community in Benue State in central Nigeria won’t forget February 2016 in a hurry. One afternoon, late that month, their villages were attacked by Fulani herdsmen. …
South Africa in the news: Police protection for ANC MP who joined Zuma bashing after death threats: 47-year-old Makhosi Khoza, joined a growing list of ANC officials who are calling for the embattled president of South Africa and ANC leader to step down even before December this year when his successor is to be elected. …
South Africa in the news: South Africa: There Are Real Cyber Threats – Mahlobo On Regulating Social Media: State Security Agency minister David Mahlobo says his department’s intentions in potentially regulating social media is to isolate the “real threats” posed by cybercrime. In a Parliamentary reply released on Friday, Mahlobo said the threats could …: …
Suspect accused of setting church on fire, stabbing informants makes bizarre threats in court: Authorities say 27-year-old Anthony Boisvert is accused of three counts of arson and two counts of first-degree assault. Court documents claim that Boisvert admitted to breaking into the First Baptist Church, committing a lewd act in the nursery and then setting …
Lions are better protected, but loopholes mean threats remain: The Parties to CITES (CoP17), rejected a proposal from nine African nations to upgrade the status of lions. Shutterstock Stronger measures to protect lions in Africa from commercial trade failed to pass at the recent meeting of the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species (CITES) …
Tennessee grandma stands up to armed man making threats over crying baby at pizza joint: A man in his 50s allegedly threatened a Murfreesboro grandmother with a beer mug and his holstered gun at a pizza restaurant on Tuesday because her grandson wouldn't stop crying. According to the incident report taken by Murfreesboro Police, the …
Weird 32 mins ago 10:12 a.m.Spurned Georgia man pleads guilty to Florida bomb threats: A Georgia man spurned by a co-worker has pleaded guilty to making hoax bomb threats against an airport and schools in Florida while using her boyfriend's name. According to court documents, 25-year-old Preston McWaters of Athens, Georgia, created false email and …
Terror threats and turmoil: a bad time for US-South Africa relations: The US embassy in South Africa has warned of terror threats to the country's upmarket malls. Reuters/Mike Hutchings On Saturday June 4 2016 the United States embassy in Pretoria issued a warning to its citizens in South Africa that there was a heightened threat …