South African President Ramaphosa defends ANC’s 30 years in power in speech to Parliament
South Africa’s struggling economy has also been seriously hampered by an electricity crisis, with rolling blackouts across the country proving disastrous for businesses.
Glimmer of hope for Republicans as Trump ballot disqualification gets sceptical US Supreme Court reception
Conservative Chief Justice John Roberts told Jason Murray, representing four Republican voters and two unaffiliated voters who sued to keep Trump off the Colorado ballot, that if the Colorado decision is upheld, other states will proceed with disqualification proceedings of their own for either Democratic or Republican candidates.
White House: No redactions in special counsel report on classified documents handling by Biden
The yearlong investigation centered on the improper retention of classified documents by Biden from his time as a senator and as vice president. Sensitive records were found in 2022 and 2023 at his Delaware home and at a private office that he used in between his service in the Obama administration and becoming president.
South African opposition party boycott president’s State of the Nation Address to Parliament
The leftist EFF party was formed in 2013 and won just over 10 per cent of the national vote in the last general election in 2019, but it was the only one of the three largest parties to increase its share of the vote.
Withdrawal of membership by four West African states makes ECOWAS bloc a house of cards
The juntas appear to be donning the mantle of Thomas Sankara. The revered former president of Burkina Faso, who seized power himself, is seen as a hero for his opposition to corrupt elites and French influence, his modesty and principles, and his concern for the ordinary Burkinabe.
Revenge: US border crisis gives Russia fodder to push Texas ‘Civil War’ narrative with echoes of USSR breakup loud
Last week, the Russian Telegram channels and state media also began to boost the ‘Take Our Border Back’ convoy led by far-right extremists, sovereign citizens, QAnon adherents, and anti-vaccine conspiracists who travelled from Virginia to the border in Texas in support of Abbott. “Fears of FBI Spying on ‘Take Our Border Back’ Convoy Show US Democracy Dying,” one Sputnik headline read last week.
Residents of eastern DR Congo flee fearing M23 rebels are on verge of taking control of Goma
Carrying bedrolls, babies and other belongings, hundreds of people marched in the heat along a narrow roadway clogged with banged-up trucks and vans, in flight once again from the unrest that has gripped eastern Congo for decades.
Humbling run for Republican candidate Nikki Haley after losing primary to ‘None of These Candidates’ in Nevada
US President Joe Biden easily won Nevada’s Democratic presidential primary after dominating his party’s first nominating contest in South Carolina on Saturday.
Ethiopia PM Ahmed rules out war with Somalia over port access deal with breakaway Somaliland
The nave base deal has rattled Somalia, which asserts that Somaliland is part of Somalia. Somalia’s president has suggested he is ready to go to war with Ethiopia to prevent it from building a port there. But addressing lawmakers on Tuesday, Abiy said he had “no intention” of going to war with Somalia.
West African economic bloc wants Senegal’s President Sall to restore elections calendar
Senegal’s presidential election has never been postponed. The constitution does empower the Constitutional Council, the highest election authority, to reschedule the vote in certain circumstances including “the death, permanent incapacity or withdrawal” of candidates.
