US appeals court decline Trump’s immunity claim but could pardon himself he wins presidency
The judges concluded there was no “functional justification” for giving former presidents full protection from federal prosecution even over actions related to their formal responsibilities.
Regimes teeming with freeloaders like Uganda’s often birth morally and culturally ‘unidentified flying objects’
In Uganda we the elderly are watching as false economic schemes such as Myooga and Parish Development Model, based on giving “money bonanzas” to a few individuals in our communities in the hope that if they become rich their richness and prosperity will flow downward to us to benefit the rest of the community.
Senegal’s image as beacon of democracy in Africa dented after MPs delay polls by 11 months
Political tensions have run high in Senegal for at least a year. Authorities also cut internet access from cellphones in June 2023 when supporters of opposition leader Ousmane Sonko clashed with security forces. Sonko is one of two opposition leaders whom election authorities disqualified from the final list of presidential candidates this month.
Namibia president and anti-apartheid activist Hage Geingob dies, succeeded by deputy Nangolo Mbumba
Hage Geingob leaves behind a middle-income country fighting to push economic growth above three per cent following a pandemic-era slowdown and reverse racial inequalities left over from colonialism and annexation by South Africa’s former white minority government.
Senegalese President Sall calls off vote three weeks to poll citing unspecified ‘electoral issues’
Ndiack Fall, law professor at Dakar’s Cheikh Anta Diop University, noted that, according to the constitution, Sall’s mandate ends on April 2 after which the president of parliament should be in charge if the election has still not been held.
Whether Trump will be on the ballot is the Supreme Court’s toughest election test since Bush v Gore
A case with the potential to disrupt Donald Trump’s drive to return to the White House is putting the Supreme Court uncomfortably at the centre of the 2024 presidential campaign. In arguments on Thursday, the justices will, for the first time, wrestle with a constitutional provision that was adopted after...
Have Ugandans resigned to being sitting ducks, surrendered sovereignty and resolved to belong nowhere?
Have Ugandans as a totality agreed to belong nowhere in the 21st century? Already, Ugandans have been dispossessed and displaced from their ancestral lands by people who originally belonged to arid and semi-arid areas and who are attached more to grass and cow than the land.
US conspiracy theories industry: America has a history of leveraging celebrities, cultural icons for political ends
In 2020, journalist Patrick Radden Keefe investigated the possibility that the CIA had a hand in writing Wind of Change, an enormously popular song by a West German band called the Scorpions that became an anthem for independence movements in the USSR. The Scorpions deny the theory.
US presidential election fever in overdrive as ‘Blank Space’ singer Taylor Swift conspiracy theorists get psyops all wrong
If there is a psyop going on, it’s being run by those crying wolf. Black propaganda can be effective, but it is notoriously hard to do right, Linebarger writes, as it “needs to be written so as to fit in with what the enemy is reading, listening to, or talking about in his home country.”
Family behind bars: Party says Pakistan ex-PM Imran Khan’s wife jailed for 14 years in graft case
Wednesday’s verdict was linked to the same matter, but followed an investigation by the country’s top anti-graft body, the National Accountability Bureau (NAB), which had also charged his wife in the case.
