By the AFREEQUE newsroom, based on Le Monde
Israeli President Isaac Herzog could seek to bring the parties closer to form a unity government after elections produced no Knesset majority. The option recalls the role played by his father, Chaim Herzog, in a similar situation 42 years earlier, according to Le Monde.
Benjamin Netanyahu refuses to form an Israeli government dependent on Arab parties, after elections failed to produce a parliamentary majority. His bloc is projected to have 53 seats against 48 for Gadi Eisenkot’s, while Arab parties hold 19, according to exit polls cited by the Zambian Observer.
🇮🇱 Israel · Source: Zambian Observer ·
Benyamin Netanyahu has baselessly accused electoral fraud of contributing to the historic gains made by Arab parties in Israel’s election, an allegation rejected by their leaders. Authorities are investigating but do not believe the vote’s integrity was systematically compromised, while the results produce no clear majority. Business Day, Sowetan, TimesLIVE and Caasimada Online, citing Reuters or the AP, report that Arab parties could play a decisive role in forming the next government.
🇮🇱 Israel · Source: Business Day (South Africa) ·
South African local elections could weaken the ANC in Johannesburg, where polls put it below 30%, and keep the Democratic Alliance in power in Cape Town. Coalition negotiations could prove decisive after the vote, according to analysts cited by the Mail & Guardian.
🇿🇦 South Africa · Source: Mail & Guardian ·
European Council President Antonio Costa condemned Russian strikes that killed at least 20 people in Dnipro, Chernihiv, Kremenchuk and Zaporizhia Oblast. The European Union is calling on its partners to increase pressure on Moscow after the attacks on a railway station and residential neighbourhoods, according to Le Monde.
🇺🇦 Ukraine · Source: Le Monde ·
Trump administration revokes legal status of 2.2 million people in USThe administration of Donald Trump has revoked the legal status of 2.2 million people without residence permits, according to US Citizenship and Immigration Services. Homeland Security Secretary Markwayne Mullin presented the figure on 29 October as part of the immigration enforcement campaign, conducted alongside deportations and visa cancellations.
Zimbabwean supervisor jailed for $16,241 fraudMichellene Muzenda, a supervisor in Mutare, has been sentenced to two years in prison for falsifying sales records and embezzling US$16,241.05. The fraud, committed over four months, was uncovered by reconciling records with ATM statements, according to Zimbabwe’s National Prosecuting Authority.The week in Africa
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