According to the BBC Uzbek report on YouTube, the Uzbek security department accused several prisoners, who are still in prison, of trying to seize power from prison, and their case was brought to justice.

On Tuesday 16th October 2018, Ethiopia’s Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed named a 20 member cabinet with women taking up an equal number of slots with their male colleagues. (The Star, 16/10/2018).

The U.N.'s humanitarian chief warned last week that 14 million people in Yemen — or half of the country's population — need aid to survive amid fears of an "imminent and great big famine."

Far right anti-Islam British activist Tommy Robinson has been invited to address the US Congress in November, reports the Independent newspaper. He is currently awaiting trial for repeatedly reporting on an ongoing trial of a group of Asian men accused of rape, attempting to accuse them of being motivated by Islam, despite the convicted leader of the gang being Sikh, not Muslim.