As reported in The News (29-Dec-16), Former Chief of Army Staff, General (retd) Raheel Sharif is expected to be appointed defence advisor of Saudi Arabia-led military alliance of 39 Muslim countries to fight terrorism.

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On 28 December, 2016, district council elections were held in Bangladesh. 61 districts were scheduled to go to polls which were boycotted by major opposition political parties. Candidates were from ruling party Awami League only, even though contestants of 2 districts had been elected unopposed,

Cabinet Secretary for Education Dr. Fred Matiang'i officially announced the results for Kenya National Exams for Secondary schools (KSCE) for the year 2016. Only 141 candidates scored the mark of ‘A’ compared to 2,636 candidates of the previous year 2015 who scored the same mark!