Beyond the Headlines
The International Monetary Fund (IMF) and Ghana have reached a staff-level agreement for a three-year loan package of $3 billion. The development means that the agreement still requires the approval of the IMF management and executive board as well as receipt of the necessary financing assurances by Ghana’s partners and creditors. According to a […]
Hundreds protested in Tunisia Saturday against President Kais Saied ahead of parliamentary elections that represented the latest consolidation of a power grab he began in July 2021. The protests were organised by political parties that had been ‘marginalised’ by Saied – first by him firing the government and suspending parliament last year, then by […]
Peru’s leftist leader Pedro Castillo was impeached and replaced as president on Wednesday in a dizzying series of events in the country that has long been prone to political upheaval. Dina Boluarte, a 60-year-old lawyer, was sworn in as Peru’s first female president just hours after Castillo tried to wrest control of the legislature […]
At least 21 persons have been confirmed dead after a bus fell into a canal in northern Egypt on Saturday. According to Al Jazeera, Sherif Makeen, an official of the ministry of health in Egypt, said three children were among the fatalities. A total of 35 persons were said to be on board the […]
From the first openly lesbian governor to the first Generation Z member-elect of Congress, early results in the US midterms heralded diversity. In Massachusetts, voters elected Democrat Maura Healey as America’s first out lesbian governor, TV networks projected. The 51-year-old defeated Geoff Diehl, endorsed by ex-president Donald Trump, to flip the office from the […]
Donald Trump’s former White House spokesperson Sarah Huckabee Sanders won Tuesday’s gubernatorial race in heavily Republican Arkansas, US media projected. She had been favored to beat Democrat Chris Jones in the southern state that her father, who ran twice for the Republican presidential nomination, governed from 1996 to 2007. Sanders, 40, ran a campaign […]
Kenya Airways flights were disrupted Saturday as a strike by its pilots demanding better working conditions grounded over a dozen planes, affecting thousands of passengers, the country’s transport minister said. The airline, part-owned by the government and Air France-KLM, is one of the biggest in Africa, connecting multiple countries to Europe and Asia, but […]
France’s National Assembly voted Friday to sanction a far-right MP with a rare 15-day suspension and pay cut after he yelled “back to Africa” at a black colleague, a clash that drew outrage across the political spectrum. Gregoire de Fournas, a newly elected member of the National Rally, has denied any personal racist attack […]
Cameroon’s 89-year-old president, Paul Biya, on Sunday marks the 40th anniversary of his rise to power amid splashy ceremonies where the word on everyone’s mind — succession — will almost certainly be absent. The Cameroon People’s Democratic Movement (RDPC), which Biya founded in 1985, says it will hold “a big party” up and down […]
Nana Akufo-Addo, President of Ghana, says the country’s inflation has increased by five-fold since 2019. The president said this while speaking on the country’s economy recently. Nana Akufo-Addo said the whole world has been taken aback by the speed with which inflation has eroded people’s incomes. Comparing Ghana’s inflationary surge with other countries, he […]
