India marks 1-billion vaccination milestone, local government election campaigning in full swing, military veterans protest, flags fly at half-mast in the US after Colin Powell dies, and more
— Members of France’s Algerian community march through Paris on Sunday to mark the 60th anniversary of a crackdown on protesters in the city. President Emmanuel Macron said the 1961 march, a protest against a curfew imposed on Algerians in and around Paris, was repressed ‘brutally, violently and in blood’.— Military veterans protest during the court appearance of some of their members at Kgosi Mampuru Correctional Services Prison Court in Pretoria.
the first black US secretary of state and top military officer whose legacy was blighted by inaccurate intelligence used to justify the invasion of Iraq,— New Joburg mayor Mpho Moerane visits the substation in Robertsham after a fire broke out on Monday night, plunging 16 suburbs into darkness. The mayor promised to restore power as quickly as possible.— Posters jostle for space on flagpoles in Hatfield, Pretoria, ahead of the local government elections.