Senegal ruling party wins parliamentary majority in election

Post Views: 35 Senegal’s ruling party won over three-quarters of parliamentary seats in weekend elections, according to national provisional results announced on Thursday (November 21, 2024), potentially handing them the means to deliver their ambitious reform agenda. President Bassirou Diomaye Faye’s Pastef party secured 130 seats in the west African country’s 165-seat national assembly, according … Read more

Mali’s ruling junta appoints Abdoulaye Maiga as PM

Post Views: 44 Mali’s ruling junta on Thursday (November 21, 2024) appointed its spokesperson, Abdoulaye Maiga, as Prime Minister a day after firing Choguel Maiga who had criticised the administration, state television ORTM reported. Choguel Maiga was quoted over the weekend condemning the junta’s failure to organise elections within a promised 24-month transition back to … Read more

Trump’s incoming chief of staff is a former lobbyist; she’ll face a raft of special interests

Post Views: 48 As incoming White House chief of staff, one of Susie Wiles’ vexing challenges will be policing the buffet line of powerful interests who want something from Donald Trump. It’s a world she knows well. During Trump’s first presidency, she lobbied for many of them. Mr. Trump was first elected on a pledge … Read more

John Prescott: All about UK Deputy PM who died aged 86

Post Views: 66 Former Britain’s Deputy Prime Minister John Prescott. File | Photo Credit: REUTERS John Prescott was a merchant seaman who dropped out of school but thrived in politics by bringing working-class credibility to the modernising Government of former British Prime Minister Tony Blair as his Deputy. Mr. Prescott, who died on Wednesday (November … Read more

Brazilian police indict Bolsonaro for alleged attempted coup, threatening his political career

Post Views: 43 Brazil’s former President Jair Bolsonaro | Photo Credit: AP Police indicted Brazil’s former president Jair Bolsonaro and 36 others for allegedly attempting a coup to keep the right-wing leader in office after his defeat in the 2022 election. Already barred from running again in 2026 for a different case, he could now … Read more

Iran to launch ‘advanced centrifuges’ in response to IAEA censure

Post Views: 37 This photo released on Tuesday, Nov. 5, 2019, by the Atomic Energy Organization of Iran shows centrifuge machines in Natanz uranium enrichment facility in central Iran. Iran announced on Monday that had started gas injection into a 30-machine cascade of advanced IR-6 centrifuges in Natanz complex. File | Photo Credit: AP Iran … Read more

Gautam Adani indictment in US: In-depth coverage

Post Views: 48 Indian billionaire Gautam Adani. | Photo Credit: Reuters A U.S. court indicted billionaire Gautam Adani and seven others including his nephew Sagar and three other executives on charges of fraud and bribery. The case pertained to a deal between Adani Green Energy and a U.S. seller for 12 gigawatts of solar power to be sold to … Read more

Netanyahu says ICC warrant against him won’t stop Israel from defending itself

Post Views: 49 Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and former Defence Minister Yoav Gallant during a press conference in the Kirya military base in Tel Aviv, Israel. | Photo Credit: Reuters Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Thursday (November 21, 2024) that an arrest warrant issued against him by the International Criminal Court over his conduct … Read more