A few days ago, Zanzibar Electoral Commission (ZEC) declared that on the 20th March 2016 will be the day for the Election Re-Run that was previously held on 28th October 2015. In the said election the party of Civic United Front (CUF) released statistics of their Presidential Candidate that he won the position.
On the 21st of January 2016 the BBC reported that the government of Tajikistan has escalated its ban which started from the year 2015 on ‘non-Tajik’ clothing by forcibly removing women’s Hijabs. This is in addition to shaving the beards of men.
On 19th January 2016 Oxfam published a report titled “Wealth: Having it all and wanting more” showing worsening health inequality around the world. It showed that the world’s richest 1% owned 48% of the world’s wealth.
After the bombing of Paris in November last year that killed more than 100 people, the world was once again rocked by attacks in Thamrin, Jakarta, on Thursday, January 14, 2016 which killed seven, including the five attackers. Sure enough, as soon as the bomb exploded, the Western media was quick to accuse the attacks as an act of "Muslim terrorists".
‘If we want Germans to accept Arabs, Arabs must also learn to accept them’ was the title of a newspaper article that highlighted the cultural lessons being run for new refugees who arrived in Germany.