FOREIGN NEWS

Mali’s interim President Bah Ndaw and Prime Minister Moctar Ouane tendered resignation. Agence France-Presse reported this on Wednesday, citing military and diplomatic sources. Late on Monday, a source told Sputnik that Malian military arrested the interim president and the prime minister and transported them to an army base near the capital of Bamako. Mali’s interim

A British court on Wednesday upheld Meghan Markle’s copyright claim against Associated Newspapers, the publisher of the Mail on Sunday and MailOnline, over its publication of a letter to her father. The ruling by judge Mark Warby means the Duchess of Sussex, as Markle is formally known, has now won every part of her legal

Former Minneapolis police officer, Derek Chauvin, has been convicted on all three charges bordering on the murder of George Floyd. Chauvin had kneeled on Floyd, an African-American man, leading to his death during an encounter on May 25, 2020, an incident that sparked worldwide protests against racism. A jury on Tuesday, April 20, 2021 found

Earlier today, the Chadian military had announced the son of the deceased Chadian leader, Deby, General Mahamat Kaka as the new interim head of state. The army spokesman said the country’s President, Idriss Deby, died from gunshot wounds by rebels. Furthermore, the army dissolved its Government pending when another election is conducted The military council

Chad’s newly re-elected President Idriss Deby Itno has died of injuries while fighting rebels in the north of the Sahel country. The shocking announcement came only the day after the 68-year-old was proclaimed the winner of a presidential election that had given him a sixth term in office. The army said Deby had been commanding

Chad’s long-ruling President Idriss Deby Itno was re-elected to a sixth term with 79.32 percent of the votes cast in April 11’s election, according to provisional results from the electoral commission on Monday. Former prime minister Albert Pahimi Padacke came in second with just 10.32 percent in the presidential vote, while turnout was 64.81 percent,

A suburb of Minneapolis was under curfew early Monday after US police fatally shot a young Black man, sparking protests not far from where a former police officer was on trial for the murder of George Floyd. Hundreds of people gathered outside the police station in Brooklyn Center, northwest of Minneapolis, with police later firing teargas and flash

THE United States Senate has confirmed the nomination of a Nigerian-American Wally Adeyemo as deputy secretary of Treasury. Adeyemo, who was nominated by President Joe Biden in December 2020, was confirmed on Thursday after a unanimous vote. The 39-year-old has struck a hardline tone on China, vowing to fight what he called Beijing’s ‘unfair economic

Ugandan opposition leader Bobi Wine has been arrested, his office said in a statement. ‘Bobi Wine arrested as he led MPs and other leaders in a peaceful protest against the abduction, torture and murder of his supporters,” an official statement on Twitter said on Monday morning. “The protest was taking place at City Square, Kampala.”

Susanna Reid has addressed co-host, Piers Morgan’s departure from the Good Morning Britain Show.  Recall it was reported that Piers left the ITV show on Tuesday March 9, following 41,000 Ofcom complaints about his comments that he ‘didn’t believe’ Meghan Markle was suicidal. Returning to the show today March 10 alongside Ranvir Singh, Reid addressed her co-star’s departure.

Pope Francis landed in northern Iraq on Sunday to cap his historic tour to the country with a visit to Christian communities that endured the brutality of a jihadist “caliphate”. The heaviest deployment of security forces yet has been mobilised to protect the 84-year-old on what is perhaps his riskiest day in Iraq. Francis landed

Ugandan opposition leader Robert Kyagulanyi, better known as Bobi Wine, said on Monday he was withdrawing his case over election fraud from the country’s highest court, the media reported. The singer-turned-politician ran against longtime incumbent President Yoweri Museveni in the January election. The country’s electoral commission declared Museveni won a sixth term with over 58

The former jewel in the crown of Donald Trump’s bankrupted Atlantic City casino empire was demolished Wednesday with 3,000 sticks of dynamite. The detonator button was pressed shortly after 9:00 am (1400 GMT), reducing the Trump Plaza Hotel and Casino to a pile of rubble in just a few seconds. Closed since 2014, the casino

An international fraudster, Obinwanne Okeke better known as Invictus, who was once listed on the Forbes Africa 30 Under 30 will on Tuesday (today) be sentenced by a Virginia Court in the United States. Okeke, who was on August 6, 2019 arrested by the Federal Bureau of Investigation, later pleaded guilty to two charges of

Turkmenistan President Gurbanguly Berdymukhamedov has named his 39-year-old son, Serdar, as deputy head of government. Mr. Berdymukhamedov created the new office for his son in a decree published in the Neutralny Turkmenistan newspaper on Friday. The younger Berdymukhammedov is seen as the likely successor to his father who is 63. His job will be to

Former US President Donald Trump’s Twitter ban will remain forever, even if he runs for president again in 2024, a top company official said on Wednesday February 10. During an interview on CNBC’s “Squawk Box,” Twitter’s chief financial officer, Ned Segal, was asked if the platform would restore Trump’s account if he ran again and

President Joe Biden has issued a presidential memorandum aimed at expanding protection of the rights of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer and intersex (LGBTQI) people worldwide, including potentially through the use of financial sanctions. Nigeria’s anti-gay laws have been increasingly criticised by global rights groups, which have categorised the country as overtly homophobic. President

Lawyers for Ugandan opposition leader Bobi Wine filed a challenge in the Supreme Court on Monday against President Yoweri Museveni’s victory in last month’s election, claiming the poll was rigged. “We want nullification of the election. We do not want (Museveni) participating in any future election,” said Medard Sseggona, one of Wine’s lawyers, at the

A Dutch Court of Appeal sitting in the Hague has ordered the Nigerian subsidiary of Shell to pay compensation in a case brought by four Nigerian farmers who alleged widespread pollution in Niger Delta. The legal tussle, which has lingered since 2008, was brought by four Nigerian farmers alleging widespread pollution on their land by