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.
Biden or Trump: To the Chinese, an American cat whether black or white is a bad cat
In China’s social media, many commentators appear to be favouring Trump, whom they see not only as a businessman up for a deal but also a disruptive force that undermines American democracy and US global leadership to the benefit of Beijing. Trump’s policies and remarks as president earned him the nickname of Chuan Jianguo or “Trump, the (Chinese) nation builder,” an implication that he was helping Beijing.
Court jails Pakistani cricket legend and former PM Imran Khan for 10 years ahead of elections
In May last year, the first time Khan was arrested, his supporters were accused of rioting and ransacking military installations, including a high ranking general’s home. Khan denies his supporters were part of the mobs. He called on his supporters to make sure they came out in numbers to vote for candidates backed by him.
NRM and Museveni regime neoliberalising everything in Uganda: Case of green landgrab
However, under the neoliberal processes and a spate of green landgrabs many of these resources are under constant threat of being grabbed by people in power or those connected to power. Maruzi Ranch, for example, was invaded by people with long-horned cattle. Some people said they came from Tanzania from where they were kicked out by former President Jakaya Kikwete.
GOP primaries frontrunner Donald Trump still in a rut as Supreme Court is urged to rule him ineligible to run
Lawyers called for a decision that makes clear that what happened on January 6 was an insurrection, for which Trump bears responsibility. The president is covered by the constitutional provision at issue and Congress doesn’t need to take action before states can apply it, the lawyers wrote.
