Rwandan elections body says incumbet Kagame is on course to retaining seat with 99 per cent vote
Paul Kagame has led the East African country since he seized power as the head of rebels who took control of the government and ended the genocide in 1994. He was vice president and de facto leader from 1994 to 2000, when he became president.
Republicans and Democrats bat conspiracies on Trump assassination attempt as FBI investigate motive
In conspiracy channels online, many Trump supporters pointed to an interview with a witness who saw the gunman climbing onto the roof with a rifle and told police about it minutes before the shooting. Law enforcement’s failure to act, posters claimed, is a sign that the apparent assassination attempt was coordinated by the “deep state.”
Far-right extremists in America call for violence and war after Trump attempted assassination
Calls for violence and civil war from far-right communities is nothing new. In the wake of the FBI’s search of Mar-a-Lago in 2022, Trump supporters immediately called for an armed uprising. Earlier this year, similar calls were made when Trump was found guilty on 34 felony charges. While these calls for violence do not always result in real-world action, there are numerous examples where online rhetoric has led to offline violence, most notably the Capitol riot.
Republicans pin rising political violence on Democrats, but data show Trump’s speeches are violent
The US is embroiled in the most sustained spate of political violence since a decade of upheaval that began in the late 1960s, Reuters found in that report published last year. That violence has come from across the ideological spectrum, and includes extensive attacks on property during left-wing political demonstrations. But attacks on people – from beatings to killings – were perpetrated mostly by suspects acting in service of right-wing political beliefs and ideology.
Trump aborted assassination: Biden says ‘everybody must condemn’ attack on ex-president and Republican candidate
President Joe Biden delivered remarks from the White House’s emergency briefing room in Rehoboth Beach, Delaware, which is set up whenever the president travels to allow him to deliver remarks to the country in a matter of minutes. He was spending the weekend at his beach home and was at a nearby church for mass when the shooting occurred.
FBI terms Trump rally shooting ‘assassination’ attempt as security reports kiling gunman
Donald Trump, who served as president from 2017-2021, easily bested his rivals for the Republican nomination early in the campaign and has largely unified around him the party that had briefly wavered in support after his supporters attacked the US Capitol on January 6, 2021, attempting to overturn his 2020 election defeat.
While lies pave path to power Uganda’s President Museveni has turned it into the art and science that delivers Hell
President Tibuhaburwa Museveni is highly gifted in the art and science of deception. Although this is a requirement if one wants to be a successful politician, the president excels in its deliberate use to subdue detection that he deliberately uses untruth to rule. Nobody or institution has not tasted his deceptions or untruths. Individuals and institutions have been promised Heaven on Earth, and some have waited for decades for the President to honour his promises.
For Gambian MPs, repealing female genital mutilation ban guarantees them re-election
Rights advocates also worry Gambia’s bill could inspire similar legislation in other African countries with FGM bans. Kenya’s high court rejected a petition to reverse its ban in 2021. Gambia’s President Adama Barrow, whose election in 2016 ended more than two decades of oppressive rule under Jammeh, said his government would continue enforcing the ban while the bill works its way through parliament.
Why ‘Project 2025’ is linked to Trump and is source of political and economic ripples in US presidential campaign
At its heart, Project 2025 is a series of detailed policy proposals put together by hundreds of high-profile conservatives that the project’s participants hope Trump adopts if elected. Those proposals are laid out in a roughly 900-page book.
‘You ain’t seen nothin’ yet, revolutionary Gen-Z are ready to storm State House and uproot Kenya’s corrupt president’
The opposition, meanwhile, has been surprised by its newfound irrelevance. Like the 19th century French politician Alexandre Ledru-Rollin, who during the French revolution is said to have declared, “There go the people. I must follow them, for I am their leader”, opposition leaders are belatedly rushing to hitch their wagon to the movement. How far their light has dimmed is illustrated by contrasting today’s movement with their attempt last year to capitalise on popular discontent over tax hikes, which failed to generate much lasting political pressure.
