President Joe Biden will honor his commitment to make an African-American woman his first nomination to the Supreme Court, the White House says. She would replace the liberal justice, Stephen Breyer, who is expected to retire at the end of the current Supreme Court term in June. His retirement plans are yet to be officially […]

US President Joe Biden has called for a historic change to Senate rules as he seeks to overhaul the country’s election laws. In an impassioned speech, he said he supported changes that would allow his voting reforms to be passed without the support of opposition Republicans. Misgivings from two senators in his party are hampering […]

Former FLOTUS Michelle Obama is on a mission to get the masses out to vote ahead of the mid-term elections. In a published letter titled “Fight For Our Vote”, she shared on her Twitter feed, she announced that she would be forming a coalition with her organisation, When We All Vote, to get people to […]

The US State Department said on Thursday that eight more Cuban officials, whose identities were not revealed, will face visa restrictions as a result of the arrest and prosecution of persons who took part in the July 11 protests. Secretary of State Antony Blinken noted in a statement that “the State Department took measures today […]

Joe Biden launched his most visceral attack yet on Donald Trump on the first anniversary of the US Capitol riot, accusing his predecessor of holding a “dagger to the throat of America.” Mr Biden called Mr Trump a “defeated president” to whom his own “bruised ego” was more important than democracy and the constitution. The […]

President Muhammadu Buhari has said that despite the myriad of challenges facing the country, his administration will continue to be resolute in its determination to overcome the challenges. President Buhari also said that the issue of security has remained at the front burner of priority areas that his administration has given utmost attention to and […]

The funeral mass for South African anti-apartheid campaigner Archbishop Desmond Tutu is taking place at a cathedral in Cape Town. Tutu, a Nobel Peace Prize winner who helped end the racist regime in South Africa, died last Sunday aged 90. His death prompted an outpouring of grief among South Africans. Thousands have paid their respects […]

Letters between Boris Johnson and his independent standards adviser on who paid for the refurbishment of his Downing Street flat will be published next month, the BBC has been told. The Financial Times has reported that the prime minister will be cleared of breaking the ministerial code and misleading adviser Lord Geidt. Labour said Mr. […]

Former US Senate majority leader Harry Reid, a Nevada Democrat who rose from humble beginnings to lead the upper chamber during the presidencies of George W. Bush and Barack Obama, died Tuesday. He was 82. “I am heartbroken to announce the passing of my husband,” his wife, Landra, said in a statement released to US […]

The South African President Cyril Ramaphosa has returned to work after spending a week in isolation following a positive Covid test, his office confirmed Monday. Ramaphosa, who is fully vaccinated, felt unwell after leaving a state memorial service for former president FW de Klerk in Cape Town on December 12. Ramaphosa self-isolated in Cape Town […]

The president of Kenya spoke to Parliament praising the country’s response to the pandemic. In his State of the Nation speech, President Uhuru Kenyatta downplayed the impact of Covid-19 on the economy. “Today I am happy to go on record in this august house as having succeeded in the choices that our administration made. Because […]

MPs voted again to elect Swedish Social Democratic Party leader Magdalena Andersson on Monday Sweden’s first female prime minister has been reappointed to the top job after political turmoil forced her to resign within hours of taking the post last week. MPs backed Social Democratic Party leader Magdalena Andersson by a narrow margin in a […]

The three-day triennial Forum on China-Africa Cooperation (Focac) conference has officially opened in Senegal’s capital, Dakar. Delegates from the continent and China are in attendance as well as hundreds of participants. The gathering comes amid biting economic and social challenges on the continent fuelled by the Covid pandemic and climate change. Ministers and representatives of […]

Sweden’s first female Prime Minister, Magdalena Andersson, has resigned from office only hours after being voted in, Sweden’s official Twitter account announced. The dramatic move came before Andersson was fully in office as she had not yet had counsel with the King, a spokesperson said. Her resignation follows a budget defeat in Parliament Wednesday, Sweden’s […]

Kenyan President Uhuru Kenyatta has been welcomed by President Cyril Ramaphosa to start a two-day state visit to South Africa. Ramaphosa met with Kenyatta at his offices in the Union Buildings Tuesday where the two leaders held a press conference. While in South Africa Kenyatta is to visit the Aspen Pharmacare factory in Gqeberha (formerly […]

US Vice President Kamala Harris will become the first woman to hold presidential powers in the history of the country. White House press secretary Jen Psaki announced on Friday. President Joe Biden will temporarily transfer powers to his VP to go for a routine colonoscopy at Reed Media Center. The medical procedure will require the […]

US President Joe Biden got a clean bill of health from the White House doctor after undergoing an extensive, routine check-up during which his powers were briefly transferred to Vice President Kamala Harris. “The President remains a healthy, vigorous, 78-year-old male, who is fit to successfully execute the duties of the Presidency, to include those […]

President Muhammadu Buhari has received the US Secretary of State, Antony Blinken at the State House in Abuja. Blinken arrived at the presidential complex in a motorcade on Thursday and is expected to have a meeting with Buhari in his office. The Nigerian leader and US top diplomat are also expected to discuss security issues […]

Ann Kananu Mwenda is the new Governor of Nairobi County. Kananu took an oath of office on Tuesday at a ceremony attended by top dignitaries, among them Nairobi Metropolitan Services Director General Mohamed Badi. She was sworn in by Justice Lilian Mutende effectively kicking off her tenure for the next 10 months before the August […]

The US Secretary of State, Anthony Blinken, is in Kenya for talks later on Wednesday with President Uhuru Kenyatta. The talks involve regional security issues including the conflict in Ethiopia, combating Islamist terrorism in Somalia, and reviving Sudan’s transition to a civilian government. The US sees Kenya as a key partner and important influence in […]

The son and one-time heir apparent of late Libyan dictator Moammar Gadhafi on Sunday announced his candidacy for the country’s presidential election next month, Libya’s election agency said. The agency said in a statement that Seif al-Islam submitted his candidacy papers in the southern town of Sabah. Gadhafi’s son was captured by fighters late in […]

The US Secretary of State Antony Blinken will make his first official trip to Africa next week, visiting Kenya, Nigeria, and Senegal. The State Department said Mr. Blinken would meet the presidents of all three countries, and deliver a speech on US-Africa policy. On the first leg of his visit – to Kenya – he’s […]

FW de Klerk, South Africa’s last white president, has died aged 85, his foundation announced on Thursday. “It is with the deepest sadness that the FW de Klerk Foundation must announce that former President FW de Klerk died peacefully at his home in Fresnaye earlier this morning following his struggle again,” the statement said.

Here are some facts on FW de Klerk, South Africa’s last white president: Head of state between September 1989 and May 1994 Unbanned African National Congress and other anti-apartheid organisations in February 1990 Released Nelson Mandela and other political prisoners around the same time Won the Nobel Peace Prize with Mr Mandela in 1993 for […]

Eswatini’s King Mswati III and the South African president have agreed to work closely to establish a national dialogue forum to resolve the intensifying protests in Eswatini. It comes after the king met President Cyril Ramaphosa, who currently chairs the security organ of the Southern African Development Committee (SADC), to discuss the political and security […]

The billionaire announced the funding, paid as part of the Bezos Earth Fund, at a Cop26 event with Prime Minister Boris Johnson as he said his flight to space in July had made him realize how fragile the planet was. Mr. Bezos had previously indicated the investment would be 1 billion dollars (£732 million) at […]

American billionaire and founder of Amazon, Jeff Bezos, has heaped praises on the President, Major General Muhammadu Buhari (retd.), for his leadership role in restoring degraded lands in the country. This is as he described the commitment to restore 4 million hectares as exemplary. Bezos said this in Glasgow, Scotland, when he joined Buhari, French […]

Zimbabwe’s President Emmerson Mnangagwa has arrived in the UK for the COP26 summit. This is the first time in 25 years that a Zimbabwean leader has set foot in the UK. Relations between Zimbabwe and the UK became strained during the rule of Mr. Mnangagwa’s predecessor, Robert Mugabe, following the take-over of white-owned farms and […]

Climate change and the relaunch of the global economy will top the G20 agenda as leaders of the world’s most advanced nations meet Saturday, the first in-person gathering since the pandemic. Looming over the two-day talks in Rome is pressure to make headway on tackling global warming, ahead of the key COP26 summit kicking off […]

Arnold Schwarzenegger says leaders who claim combating climate change hurts the economy are “stupid or liars”. Ahead of the COP26 climate summit, the former governor of California told the BBC that cutting carbon emissions will benefit global economies. The Terminator actor said reducing meat intake does not have to mean sacrificing something – instead cutting […]

A memorial service for Colin Powell will be held at the Washington National Cathedral on Nov. 5, a spokeswoman for the retired U.S. Army general said. The soldier and diplomat died Oct. 18 at age 84 from complications of COVID-19 after suffering from several illnesses in recent years including multiple myeloma, blood cancer, and Parkinson’s […]

President Uhuru Kenyatta has lifted the dusk-to-dawn curfew that has been in effect since March last year. The curfew was initially imposed as part of measures to curb the spread of Covid-19 in the country. “I hereby order and direct the nationwide dusk-dawn curfew to be vacated with immediate effect,” he said as crowds responded […]

Colin Powell, the first Black US secretary of state whose leadership in several Republican administrations helped shape American foreign policy in the last years of the 20th century and the early years of the 21st, has died from complications from Covid-19, his family said on Facebook. He was 84. “General Colin L. Powell, former U.S. […]

Makerere University has said it is designing a 1,500 postgraduate students’ hall of residence within its campus to be named after Tanzania’s founding president and alumnus, Mwalimu Julius Nyerere. Speaking at the 22nd commemoration anniversary of Nyerere’s death yesterday, Prof Josephine Nabukenya, the deputy vice chancellor finance and administration, said the university council passed a […]

Former U.S President Bill Clinton is recovering after two days of treatment for an infection in a California hospital, his doctors said. The 75-year-old was admitted to the University of California Irvine Medical Center on Tuesday evening “for a non-COVID-19 infection,” Clinton spokesman Angel Urena said on Twitter. “He is on the mend, in good […]

President Joe Biden met in the Oval Office with Kenya’s President Uhuru Kenyatta and pledged the U.S. will donate 17 million additional doses of Johnson & Johnson COVID-19 vaccine to the African Union. Speaking to reporters alongside Kenyatta shortly before their meeting was to begin, Biden said the two would also discuss “transparency” in international […]

Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro said he decided not to get a Covid-19 vaccine, in an on-air interview with Jovem Pan Radio on Tuesday night. Previously, Bolsonaro — who has been eligible to get vaccinated since April — has said he would take the vaccine after the last Brazilian was immunized. “I decided not to take […]

US President Joe Biden is slated to meet Thursday with his Kenyan counterpart Uhuru Kenyatta, the first African leader invited to the White House under the current administration. The two leaders will discuss “the strong US-Kenyan bilateral relationship and the need to bring transparency and accountability to domestic and international financial systems,” the White House […]

Several world leaders have denied wrongdoing after featuring in a huge leak of financial documents from offshore companies. Dubbed the Pandora Papers, the 12 million files constitute the biggest such leak in history. Russian President Vladimir Putin and Jordan’s King Abdullah II bin Al-Hussein are among some 35 current and former leaders linked to the […]

President Emmanuel Macron will host a conference on Africa on Friday billed as a summit but with no other leaders attending, as he aims to readjust France’s relationship with the continent. Instead of other heads of state and premiers, Macron is inviting hundreds of young businesspeople, artists and sporting figures to the southern city of […]

World Bank Chief David Malpass, in Sudan on Thursday for the first visit in nearly 40 years by a head of the development body, praised the country’s reforms but cautioned against “political slippage”. A transitional government and a civilian-military Sovereign Council have been running the African nation since 2019 after the ouster of long-time autocrat […]

President Muhammadu Buhari has ordered that a ban on the services of social media app, Twitter, be lifted in Nigeria. Mr President said in his Independence Day speech on Friday, October 1, 2021 that the ban is conditional on ensuring Nigerians use the platform for business and positive engagements. The Federal Government had controversially banned […]

A French court Thursday imposed a one-year sentence on former president Nicolas Sarkozy after finding him guilty of illegal campaign financing for massive overspending on his 2012 re-election campaign. The verdict came six months after he was found guilty of corruption in a separate trial. The court will allow the ex-president to serve the sentence […]

Theoneste Bagosora was nicknamed the “Himmler of Rwanda” or the “Colonel of the Apocalypse”. After reaching the highest circles of power thanks to a brilliant military career, he became the “mastermind” of the 1994 genocide in Rwanda. This colonel of the Rwandan army died Saturday, at the age of 80, in Mali where he was […]

The Obamas are set to attend the groundbreaking of Barack’s Presidential Center on Tuesday in Chicago. The 44th President and former First Lady Michelle Obama will be part of a virtual event celebrating the building of the Obama Presidential Center. “Michelle and I could not be more excited to break ground on the Obama Presidential […]

Brazil’s health regulator Anvisa recommended that the entire presidential delegation to the U.N. General Assembly remain in isolation and undergo more tests. Bolsonaro’s only appointment on Wednesday was changed to a remote meeting. Health Minister Marcelo Queiroga tested positive hours after accompanying Bolsonaro to give the first speech from a head of state at the […]

Amazon founder Jeff Bezos sat down with UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson in New York on Monday, after Johnson flew to the city for the UN General Assembly. Bezos posted a photo of the meeting on his Instagram account. His girlfriend Lauren Sanchez also attended. Bezos said he and Johnson discussed climate change. “Good exchange […]

President Muhammadu Buhari has arrived in New York for the high-level meetings of the 76th Session of the United Nations General Assembly. The New York Correspondent of the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that Buhari arrived at the JF Kennedy International Airport in New York at about 4 p.m. local time. The President was […]