Rwandan President Paul Kagame and his Congolese counterpart Felix Tshisekedi joined a summit in Tanzania on Saturday where regional leaders called for an “immediate ceasefire” in the Democratic Republic of Congo. The Rwanda-backed M23 armed group has rapidly seized swathes of territory in the mineral-rich eastern DRC in an offensive that has left thousands dead and displaced vast numbers. The group took the strategic city of Goma, capital of North Kivu province, last week and is pushing into neighbouring South Kivu in the latest episode of decades-long turmoil in the region. Kagame took part in person at the summit…
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President Donald Trump on Friday said USAID should “close,” in an escalation of his already unprecedented campaign to dismantle the massive government aid agency. “THE CORRUPTION IS AT LEVELS RARELY SEEN BEFORE. CLOSE IT DOWN!” Trump wrote in a trademark all-caps statement on his Truth Social app. Trump, who began his second term last month, has launched a crusade led by his top donor and world’s richest man Elon Musk to downsize or dismantle swaths of the US government. The most concentrated fire has been on the United States Agency for International Development, the primary organization for distributing…
2 days ago The Trade Union Congress of Nigeria (TUC) has rejected the proposed 65 per cent increase in electricity tariffs. TUC position is contained in a communique issued at the end of its first quarter of 2025 National Administrative Council (NAC) meeting held on Thursday in Abuja. Addressing newsmen after the meeting, Mr. Festus Osifo, President of… 2 days ago Onyekachukwu John Mba, the Nigerian sensation better known by his stage name Don Lamba as his fans affectionately call him, is preparing to unleash a musical masterpiece that promises to redefine the Afropop landscape in 2025. His upcoming album,…
2 days ago The Trade Union Congress of Nigeria (TUC) has rejected the proposed 65 per cent increase in electricity tariffs. TUC position is contained in a communique issued at the end of its first quarter of 2025 National Administrative Council (NAC) meeting held on Thursday in Abuja. Addressing newsmen after the meeting, Mr. Festus Osifo, President of… 2 days ago Onyekachukwu John Mba, the Nigerian sensation better known by his stage name Don Lamba as his fans affectionately call him, is preparing to unleash a musical masterpiece that promises to redefine the Afropop landscape in 2025. His upcoming album,…
Panama on Thursday rejected the United States’ claim that it had secured free passage for government vessels through the Panama Canal while bowing to US pressure to quit a key Chinese project. Panamanian President Jose Raul Mulino told reporters the US assertion about the waterway was “intolerable, simply and plainly intolerable,” adding that he rejected “bilateral relations based on lies and falsehoods.” Since winning the US election in November, US President Donald Trump has refused to rule out the use of force to seize the canal built by Washington over a century ago and later handed over to Panama.…
The Bank of England on Thursday halved its forecast for UK economic growth this year, blaming global risks amid US tariff threats and deteriorating business confidence in the UK. The sharp downgrade, which estimates gross domestic product at 0.75 percent in 2025 compared with a forecast of 1.5 percent in November, came alongside a BoE cut to its key interest rate. In an expected decision, the central bank trimmed borrowing costs by a quarter point to 4.5 percent at a regular policy meeting, with weak growth concerns offsetting worries about above-target UK inflation. The British pound slid against the…
Croatia’s former premier Ivo Sanader was acquitted of war profiteering by taking a bribe from an Austrian bank during the country’s 1990s war, a court said on Thursday. Sanader, who led Croatia into NATO and to the doorstep of the European Union in the 2000s, is currently in jail serving an 18-year sentence for corruption. In a 2022 re-trial, a Zagreb court found Sanader not guilty of war profiteering for accepting nearly 500,000 euros ($518,000) in bribes from Austria’s Hypo Group Alpe Adria bank. At the time, during the country’s independence war in mid-1990s, he was deputy foreign minister.…
US President Donald Trump announced Thursday the creation of a task force to “eradicate anti-Christian bias” in government, intensifying a right-wing crackdown since returning to power. The Republican billionaire said he was putting new Attorney General Pam Bondi at the head of the force to end “persecution” of the majority religion of the United States. Trump said its mission would be to “immediately halt all forms of anti-Christian targeting and discrimination” in the Department of Justice, the Internal Revenue Service, the FBI and other government agencies. He also said it would prosecute “anti-Christian violence and vandalism in our society.”…
The Africa Business Leadership and Investment Summit (ABLIS), a premier platform for fostering economic growth and sustainable investments across the continent, has announced the postponement and relocation of its 2025 edition due to escalating security concerns in East Africa. Originally set to be held in Rwanda, the summit will now take place from April 21st – 25th, 2025, in Accra, Ghana. This decision follows increased unrest in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) and rising tensions in neighboring regions, prompting ABLIS organizers to prioritize the safety of all participants. READ MORE: DR Congo’s occupied city plunged into uncertainty “This…
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