On Tuesday 16th October 2018, Ethiopia’s Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed named a 20 member cabinet with women taking up an equal number of slots with their male colleagues. (The Star, 16/10/2018).

The U.N.'s humanitarian chief warned last week that 14 million people in Yemen — or half of the country's population — need aid to survive amid fears of an "imminent and great big famine."

Far right anti-Islam British activist Tommy Robinson has been invited to address the US Congress in November, reports the Independent newspaper. He is currently awaiting trial for repeatedly reporting on an ongoing trial of a group of Asian men accused of rape, attempting to accuse them of being motivated by Islam, despite the convicted leader of the gang being Sikh, not Muslim.

On 25 September, RIA Novosti reported: “Terrorist threats in Central Asia and the CIS as a whole are taking a long-term character,” said Deputy Prime Minister of Kyrgyzstan Zhenish Razakov on Tuesday. “Unfortunately, we have to admit that the terrorist threat to our country emanating from Afghanistan is increasing.