Kenya’s top court ruled Thursday that President Uhuru Kenyatta’s bid to change the constitution was illegal, dealing a blow to him and his allies ahead of key elections in August. “The president cannot initiate constitutional amendments or changes through a popular initiative under article 257 of the constitution,” six of the seven judges overseeing […]
Russian oligarch Roman Abramovich and Ukrainian negotiators were targets of a suspected poison attack, potentially by Moscow hardliners seeking to sabotage peace talks, the Wall Street Journal reported Monday, citing people familiar with the matter. The billionaire businessman, recently slapped with sanctions by Western nations seeking to pressure Russian President Vladimir Putin over his […]
Jeff Fortenberry, US congressman from Nebraska, has resigned from office after being found guilty by a California jury of lying about an illegal campaign donation from a foreign national. It is illegal in the US for foreign nationals to make contributions to campaigns. Fortenberry was convicted in October of lying to FBI agents on […]
The Ghanaian government has announced a 30 percent salary cut for its appointees. This is one of the measures introduced by the government to mitigate economic hardship in the country. The presidency disclosed this on Twitter on Wednesday, adding that all measures have been approved by Ghanaian President Nana Akufo-Addo. Other measures include the […]
A black box has been recovered from the crashed Chinese passenger jet carrying 132 people, an aviation official said Wednesday. A flight recorder “from China Eastern MU5735 was found on March 23,” Liu Lusong, a spokesman for China’s aviation authority, told reporters. Details later… AFP
A war is practically brewing between the Drunkards Association of Ghana which claims it has 6.6 million members and the Managing Director of a distillery company producing some drinks over what the association described as an insult on its members by the managing director. The Drunkards Association also said it had decided to boycott […]
A China Eastern Boeing 737 with 132 onboard was hit by an accident and caused a mountain fire in South China’s Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, the number of casualties is not clear yet, CCTV reported on Monday afternoon. The plane, MU 5735 took off from Kunming Changshui airport in Southwest China’s Yunnan Province at […]
The Economic Community of West African States said it donated one million dollars to assist vulnerable families in the country in 2021. In a joint statement by the Ministry of Humanitarian Affairs, Disaster Management and Social Development, and the ECOWAS, made available to newsmen in Abuja on Friday, it revealed the relief package was […]
Saudi Arabia said Saturday it executed a record 81 people in one day for a variety of terrorism-related offences, exceeding the total number it sentenced to death in total last year. All had been “found guilty of committing multiple heinous crimes”, the official Saudi Press Agency (SPA) reported, saying they included convicts linked to […]
Zambia’s former president Rupiah Banda died on Friday at the age of 85 after a long battle with colon cancer, his son Andrew told AFP. “He is gone”, Andrew Banda told an AFP correspondent in Lusaka. The southern African country’s fourth leader since independence from Britain served for three years from 2008 — a […]
