NewsOn the 7th of September 2015, the meeting of Women Parliamentarians for ASEAN Inter-Parliamentary Assembly (WAIPA) has been held at Dewan Sarawak Hotel Shangri-La, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. The acknowledgment of gender equality in the agenda of the post development 2015 are among the three resolutions achieved. The two remaining resolutions are encouraging the culture of respecting women and girls rights towards inclusiveness and also increasing the legal framework regarding violence…

Tens of thousands of Malaysians protested over the weekend in the capital Kuala Lumpur and elsewhere, calling for Prime Minister Najib Razak to step down over a financial scandal. The protesters are angered by a $700m (£455m) payment made to his bank account from unnamed foreign donors.

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The Citizen Newspaper on 13th August 2015 reported that, a senior Security Manager at Julius Nyerere International Airport (JNIA) and two members of Tanzania Peoples Defence Force (TPDF) have been implicated in the $413,000 (over Tsh826 million) ivory haul seized in Switzerland last month. The value of 262 kg of ivory was intercepted at Zurich Airport after being smuggled out through from Dar es Salaam.