The U.S. is trying to wreck Russia’s planned summit with African countries as part of efforts to isolate Moscow, Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said in an interview published on Tuesday. Lavrov told the news site Argumenty i Fakty that Moscow was different from Western countries in its relations with Africa in that “we never tell […]
Donald Trump has said the US is “going to hell” in a defiant address after pleading not guilty to falsifying business records to hide damaging information ahead of the 2016 election. The former president was charged with 34 felony counts in a Manhattan court on Tuesday. These relate to a hush money payment to porn […]
Kenya opposition leader Raila Odinga on Tuesday called for parties outside parliament to be involved in talks on electoral reform and the high cost of living, at odds with President William Ruto’s plan for negotiations to be held only within parliament. Odinga warned of fresh protests if the government did not take demands of the […]
President Paul Kagame of Rwanda has said he is looking forward to retiring and handing over power after 22 years in office. Speaking at a joint press briefing with his Kenyan counterpart, William Ruto in the Rwandan capital, Kigali, Kagame said a succession plan is being actively discussed by the ruling party terming his retirement […]
Britain’s interior minister, Suella Braverman, says she is convinced Rwanda is a safe country for the resettlement of asylum seekers, but she has declined to set any deadline for the first deportations there. The British government is hoping to send thousands of asylum seekers more than 6,500km (4,000 miles) away to the East African country […]
Burkina Faso has expelled two French journalists working for newspapers Le Monde and Liberation, the two newspapers said on Sunday, accusing the authorities of seeking to stifle freedom of speech with an escalating crackdown on foreign media. Liberation said its correspondent Agnès Faivre and Le Monde’s Sophie Douce arrived in Paris early on Sunday after […]
The International Monetary Fund said on Tuesday it has reached a staff-level agreement with Rwanda on policies needed to complete the first reviews of Rwanda’s $319 million loan arrangement under the IMF’s new Resilience and Sustainability Facility. The agreement is subject to review and approval by IMF management and the Fund’s executive board, tentatively scheduled […]
In her 15 years of working in Ethiopian media, Melkamsew Solomon says she still doesn’t see enough women in senior roles. Often, she says, women are assigned to soft news stories, then overlooked for more prominent positions. Melkamsew has managed to buck that trend and is pushing back boundaries with her radio program Yimechish, which […]
Former U.S. President Donald Trump pleaded not guilty Tuesday in a New York state court to a 34-count indictment accusing him of falsifying business records in furtherance of an unspecified crime – described by prosecutors as a bid to hide a hush money payment to a porn actress to help him win the presidency in […]
Sugandh Rajaram, the Indian High Commissioner to Ghana, on Saturday graduated with a Master of Philosophy (Geography and Regional Planning) degree at the University of Cape Coast (UCC). He graduated as one of the two students, who specialised in that field. The High Commissioner was among 1,430 postgraduate students who graduated at the fifth session […]
