Cote d’Ivoire President Alassane Ouattara has secured a fourth term in an election which two of his biggest challengers were barred from, provisional results show. Ouattara, 83, won 89.8% of the vote, the electoral commission said on Monday, and businessman Jeal-Louis Billon came a distant second with only 3.09%. The landslide victory is not a […]
Former French President Nicolas Sarkozy will have two police officers stationed in nearby cells while he is in prison to ensure he comes to no harm, France’s interior minister has said. Sarkozy began a five-year sentence after being convicted of conspiring to raise campaign funds from Libya, arriving at La Sante prison in Paris — […]
Former Madagascan President Andry Rajoelina, who was ousted in a coup last week, has been stripped of his citizenship by the new regime. The order, signed by new Prime Minister Herintsalama Rajaonarivelo, cited local laws stipulating that people who acquired foreign citizenship should lose their Malagasy nationality. Rajoelina, 51, obtained French citizenship a decade ago, […]
With no heavyweightopposition candidates cleared to compete in Wednesday’s election, many Tanzanians feel the vote is less like a contest and more like a coronation for President Samia Suluhu Hassan, as she faces her first presidential election. The 65-year-old became the East African nation’s first female head of state after the death in 2021 of […]
Ivory Coast President Alassane Ouattara has called on the country’s youth to vote in large numbers in the upcoming presidential election, touting himself as the candidate most committed to their welfare. Voters in the nation of 32 million, one of West Africa’s economic powerhouses, are due to cast their ballot on Saturday, with 83-year-old Ouattara […]
The high-level meeting taking place on Wednesday is expected to enhance political and economic collaboration between the European Union and Egypt. Egyptian President Abdelfattah el-Sisi has arrived in Brussels for the inaugural EU-Egypt Summit, which took place on Wednesday. The core agenda of the summit centers on bolstering bilateral ties and promoting stability, peace, and […]
At least 40 migrants, including children, have died after their boat sank off the coast of Tunisia, in one of the deadliest maritime disasters in the region this year, authorities say. The boat sank off the Mediterranean port of Mahdia in central Tunisia while carrying about 70 migrants, an official said. All the people on […]
Ghana has commenced high-level discussions with the United States and Canadian governments to facilitate visa arrangements for football fans following the Black Stars’ qualification to the 2026 FIFA World Cup,Minister for Foreign Affairs and Regional Integration, Mr Samuel Okudzeto Ablakwa, has announced. In a Facebook post on Wednesday, October 22, 2025, Mr Ablakwa said he […]
President Donald Trump said Tuesday his plan for a swift meeting with Russian leader Vladimir Putin was on hold because he didn’t want it to be a “waste of time.” It was the latest twist in Trump’s stop-and-go effort to resolve the war in Ukraine. The decision to hold off on the meeting in Budapest, […]
This policy brief by IPPG argues that Ghana’s escalating illegal small-scale mining crisis, popularly known as galamsey, has become a defining measure of President John Dramani Mahama’s determination to uphold environmental governance, institutional accountability, and political integrity. Having campaigned on strong anti-galamsey promises, the administration now faces the urgent challenge of transforming public expectations into visible […]
