SOUTH AFRICA WORLD CUP SQUAD DELAYED AFTER VISA ISSUES, SET TO DEPART MONDAY AHEAD OF OPENING MATCH IN MEXICO CITY . (PHOTO).

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 South Africa World Cup squad delayed after visa issues, set to depart Monday ahead of opening match in Mexico City  South Africa’s World Cup squad has delayed its departure after visa issues disrupted travel plans, with the team now set to leave Monday following last-minute efforts to resolve the problem. The national soccer body confirmed the change after the squad was originally scheduled to depart Sunday but was unable to do so because some players and support staff had not yet secured U.S. visas. South Africa will open its World Cup campaign on June 11 against co-host Mexico in Mexico City and is also set to play a group-stage match in the United States. Sports officials said the visa delay stemmed from an administrative error involving team management. Sports Minister Gayton McKenzie publicly criticized the situation, calling it embarrassing and demanding a formal report from the South African Football Association. He said the situation was making the country “look like ...
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MASSIVE VOTER TURNOUT MARKS ETHIOPIA’S GENERAL ELECTIONS. (PHOTO).

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 Massive voter turnout marks Ethiopia’s general elections


Ethiopians rushed to the polls on Monday, with the Prosperity Party (PP) of incumbent Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed predicted to win a landslide victory, analysts say, AFP reported.


Abiy has ruled the Horn of Africa nation of 130 million people since 2018. In 2019, he won the Nobel Peace Prize for mending relations with neighbouring Eritrea.


Abiy's PP won 96 percent of the seats in the last election in 2021.


The opposition is running with scant financial resources and is divided across more than 40 parties. In dozens of constituencies, the ruling party is running unopposed.


"Many challengers to the ruling PP will not contest the elections," Chatham House noted. "Some are in exile, some are banned, some are imprisoned, and many may see little incentive to abandon their armed struggle against the government."


Polling stations opened at 6:00 am (0300 GMT) and are due to close at 6:00 pm, with more than 50 million people eligible to vote across 48,000 polling stations in the vast territory.


No election is taking place in the northern region of Tigray, due to ongoing tensions between regional and federal authorities. More than a million people remain displaced from the brutal civil war of 2020-2022.


Conflicts in the two most populous states, Oromia and Amhara, show little sign of slowing.


In Amhara, with a population around 20 million, Fano nationalist militias have threatened to disrupt the electoral process, though the National Election Board has cancelled voting in only eight of its 137 constituencies.


The Board insists polling stations will open throughout the vast Oromia region, covering one third of the country, where Oromia Liberation Army rebels have been operating since 2018.


Observers from the African Union, headquartered in Addis Ababa, as well as the East African regional bloc IGAD, are monitoring Monday's poll.


Ethiopia did not accept a proposal from the European Union to send observers, according to an EU source.

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