An investigation by @AJIunit has identified more than 40 Politically Exposed Persons - PEP’s - officials considered “vulnerable to corruption” who have bought a Cypriot citizenship, and reveal the legal loophole allowing them to keep their passports | #CyprusPapers
@AJIunit An investigation by @AJIunit has found that Cyprus allowed dozens of people to buy citizenship even though their political connections make them a high risk for corruption.
@AJIunit Explore leaked Cyprus government data from the #CyprusPapers investigation. @AJIunit has published 100 profiles of people who paid to become EU citizens, including criminals, fugitives and high-level officials who pose a risk for political corruption 👇 aje.io/72yc3
@AJIunit Over 40% of the people who paid to become EU citizens in the #CyprusPapers are Russian.
Many of them made their money through political & economic relationships with their own government.
The Australian government has imposed financial sanctions and travel bans on seven Israeli settlers and a youth group for violence against Palestinians in the occupied West Bank.
Save the Children reports that thousands of missing Palestinian children are trapped under rubble, buried in unmarked graves, harmed by explosives, detained by Israeli forces, or lost in the chaos of the war on Gaza.
Israel’s top court has ordered the government to provide information about conditions inside the military facility Sde Teiman, where Palestinians from Gaza are detained.
Malnourished Palestinian children are being treated at Nasser Hospital in Khan Younis, in the southern Gaza Strip, as Israel continues to restrict aid to the besieged enclave.
The UN is adding Israel to its 'blacklist' of countries that have committed abuses against children in armed conflict, as more than 15,500 Palestinian children have been killed in Israeli attacks on Gaza since October 7.
An Israeli air attack on a home in the Sheikh Radwan neighbourhood in northern Gaza has killed at least four Palestinians and injured 14 more, the Wafa news agency reports.
Two Palestinian men have been shot during an Israeli raid in the Aqabat Jabr camp in the occupied West Bank city of Jericho, the Wafa news agency reports.
Qatar, Egypt and the US urge Israel and Hamas to conclude a ceasefire agreement that embodies the principles outlined by US President Biden, amid Israel's continuing bombardment of besieged Gaza.
Alexandra Saieh, head of humanitarian policy and advocacy at Save the Children, has told Al Jazeera that “Gaza is witnessing the worst levels of malnutrition, of child malnutrition especially, worldwide right now.”
Israeli opposition leader Yair Lapid has denounced far-right ministers Itamar Ben Gvir and Bezalel Smotrich for threatening to dissolve Benjamin Netanyahu’s government if he were to accept President Biden’s new ceasefire deal.
On May 29, South Africans will head to the polls to vote in national and provincial elections to elect a new National Assembly, which will choose the president for the next 5 years.
Here’s a guide to the elections and major political parties ⤵️
South Africa follows a proportional voting system where parties and candidates compete for 400 seats in the National Assembly.
For the first time, independent candidates will compete in the elections with voters given three ballots instead of two.
Who is in South Africa’s current National Assembly?
South Africa’s lower house of parliament currently includes 14 political parties represented by 400 members, allocated proportionally based on the votes each party received in the 2019 elections.