Colombia’s Ingrid Betancourt announces presidential run
Colombian politician Ingrid Betancourt, who was held as a hostage for six years by the country’s largest guerrilla group, said on Tuesday that she will...
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Ousted Guinean leader Conde leaves country for medical check
Former Guinean President Alpha Conde, ousted in a coup in September, boarded a plane on Monday to go abroad for a medical check-up, two sources...
Malians demonstrate against regional sanctions
Thousands of people demonstrated in the Malian capital Bamako on Friday against sanctions imposed by neighbouring countries on the transitional military government for trying to...
Mali’s ousted president Keita dies at 76
Former Malian president Ibrahim Boubacar Keita, who was ousted by the military in 2020 after a turbulent seven-year rule, has died, officials said on Sunday....
S.Africa’s last apartheid president FW de Klerk dies
FW de Klerk, South Africa’s last white president, who freed anti-apartheid icon Nelson Mandela from jail, died on Thursday aged 85, his foundation announced. De Klerk...
Some Ghanaians hate him, some love him: the mixed legacy of Jerry John Rawlings
Ghana’s Third Republic lasted for just two years – from September 24, 1979 to December 31, 1981. Jerry Rawlings book-ended these two events. In 1979...
Arizona “audit” finds Biden won (by more votes) and no evidence of fraud
After months of work and some $6 million spent, a so-called audit that Trump supporters claimed would show that the election had been stolen from...
Zambian ex-president Kaunda’s burial begins despite court challenge
The burial of Zambia’s founding president, Kenneth Kaunda, started on Wednesday despite a court challenge by one of his sons against his burial site. Kaunda...
Ex-Mali coup leader won’t stand trial for 2012 killings
The man who overthrew Mali’s president in 2012, former Gen. Amadou Haya Sanogo, will no longer stand trial on charges he had 21 soldiers killed...
Samia Suluhu Hassan becomes Tanzania’s first woman president
Samia Suluhu Hassan, 61, made history Friday when she was sworn in as Tanzania’s first female president at State House, the government offices in Dar...