French President Emmanuel Macron on Sunday defeated his rival Marine Le Pen in presidential elections, projections showed, prompting a wave of relief in Europe that the far-right had been prevented from taking power. Centrist Macron was set to win 57.0-58.5 per cent of the vote compared with Le Pen on 41.5-43.0 percent, according to […]
French voters began casting their ballots Sunday for the presidential run-off between centrist incumbent Emmanuel Macron and his challenger Marine Le Pen, after a fractious campaign that has seen the far-right come its closest yet to winning power. Macron went into the election with a stable lead in opinion polls, an advantage he consolidated […]
Guinea’s ousted president Alpha Conde is “finally free” and can receive visitors, the junta who overthrew him has said. Conde became Guinea’s first democratically elected president in 2010, but the 84-year-old was deposed by army officers last year and replaced by Colonel Mamady Doumbouya. He was allowed to go to the United Arab Emirates […]
As part of strengthening and enhancing security in the West African sub-region, the Nigerian Army has deployed 173 officers and soldiers to Guinea Bissau on an ECOWAS peacekeeping Operation. The Chief of Operations, Army Headquarters, Major General Oluwafemi Akinjobi, announced this on Thursday at the graduation and pre-deployment training of the troops from the […]
South Africa’s former president Jacob Zuma will miss the resumption on Monday of his trial for alleged corruption on the grounds of ill health, his lawyer said. “There was a medical emergency which took place in the past few hours,” his lawyer Dali Mpofu announced in court, giving no further details. Zuma, who turns […]
Shehbaz Sharif, expected to become Pakistan’s new Prime Minister Monday after leading the opposition alliance that ousted Imran Khan, is a tough administrator with a penchant for quoting revolutionary poetry. Sharif is the younger brother of three-time prime minister Nawaz Sharif, who was dismissed then jailed on corruption charges in 2017 and is currently […]
The Ghanaian government has banned spending and transacting businesses in foreign currencies in the country. The Central Bank of Ghana disclosed this in a statement issued on Thursday, warning citizens and companies to stop transacting business, pricing goods and services and advertising in foreign currencies. According to the country’s apex bank, it is illegal […]
The United States says it will impose a fresh round of sanctions on Russia over its invasion of Ukraine. US President Joe Biden announced the sanctions in a speech on Wednesday. He said the sanctions would be introduced in close coordination with partners in Europe and the other states of the G7 group. The […]
Spain has criminalised the harassment or intimidation of women going for an abortion under new legislation approved on Wednesday by the Senate. The measure, AFP reports, was proposed by Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez’s Socialist party and will come into effect after being published in the official state bulletin in coming days. The move involved […]
A military tribunal on Wednesday ruled that Burkina Faso’s former president Blaise Compaore be sentenced to life imprisonment for complicity in the 1987 murder of his predecessor Thomas Sankara in a coup. The charismatic Marxist revolutionary Sankara was gunned down in the West African nation’s capital Ouagadougou at the age of 37, four years […]
