fredag 14 augusti 2026
Elections in Zambia
Zambia halts vote counting – citing violence
Zambia has halted vote counting after Thursday's election, AFP reports. The electoral authority states that election workers were attacked and ballot papers were stolen.
The incumbent president Hakainde Hichilema has previously described the election as peaceful, something he said was due to his reforms as president.
The vote counting will be paused for 24 hours and the electoral authority will then assess the situation. A final election result was initially expected on Monday.
President: The election is going smoothly – thanks to me
The vote counting is still underway after Wednesday's presidential election in Zambia, Channel Africa reports. A final election result is not expected until Monday.
According to the incumbent president Hakainde Hichilema, who is seeking a new mandate, everything has gone smoothly thanks to his reforms.
– The last election, in 2021, was chaotic. It was loud, it was bloody, it was really scary, but we created peace in the country, he says.
Middle East Crisis West Bank
Army forces Palestinians to leave besieged homes
The Israeli army has forced Palestinian families in the village of Qusra in the occupied West Bank to leave their homes, reports the BBC.
The village has been under what is described as a full-scale siege by Israeli settlers for almost a week.
According to the military, it was necessary for the residents to leave their homes so that the settlers could be expelled.
– I was sleeping in the morning with my brother. They came into the house, slammed the door and shouted “open, open the door”. I still can’t understand what I saw, says one of the residents.
The Palestinian villagers were reportedly allowed to return to their homes after a couple of hours.
According to the Times of Israel, the settlers are still at the scene.
Settlements divert water from Palestinian fields – to their pool
Israeli settlers in the West Bank have diverted a water pipeline that was previously used to feed a Palestinian field and used the water to build a swimming pool. This is reported by Reuters.
– They have robbed us of the water we depended on for our homes, our livelihoods and our agriculture, farmer Saad Nemer told the news agency.
According to the UN, Israeli settlers have attacked the Palestinian population’s water supply in the West Bank on at least 160 occasions in the past year.
The pool in Fasayil is now to be developed into a commercial swimming pool for Jewish visitors. Israel’s far-right Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich has promised that the facility will receive state support.
Vance: We are fighting for low oil prices
The US's main goal with the Iran war is now to keep oil and gas prices down, claims Vice President JD Vance.
- I note that the price of oil is falling today and that it has fallen significantly since the peaks at the beginning of the conflict, says Vance in an interview with Fox News.
- That is goal number one: keeping oil and gas cheap for Americans throughout our country.
In second place in the US's order of priority in the war is to ensure that Iran never acquires nuclear weapons, claims Vance.
President Donald Trump has given various reasons why he, together with Israel, started the war against Iran in February that quickly spread in the Middle East and has caused oil and gas prices to skyrocket.
He has often referred specifically to the nuclear weapons issue, despite claiming that Iran's nuclear energy program has already been "wiped out" in previous attacks in 2025.
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