Pot ‘crackers’ in US celebrate reclassification of marijuana but move won’t get drug pushers out of jail
Biden, a Democrat, supports legalising medical marijuana for use “where appropriate, consistent with medical and scientific evidence,” White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre said on April 25, 2024. “That is why it is important for this independent review to go through.”
Wary of disruptive Umkhonto Wesizwe’s influence, South Africa’s ruling ANC is investigating ex-president Zuma’s party for forgery
The new investigation into the MK Party came after a national newspaper reported on Sunday that a former party official has told police there was an elaborate scheme to forge some of the 15,000 signatures required for parties to register for the elections.
How toothless, rudderless opposition is helping President Museveni build dynastic rule in Uganda
The politicians in NRM and in the parties are silent. None of them is questioning how a person born outside Uganda by parents born outside Uganda can be more patriotic than those who were born in Uganda and belong to the indigenous groups in the country.
Biden’s lead over Trump narrows to one per cent in opinion polls six months to US election
Some 28 per cent of registered voters in the poll said they had not picked a candidate, were leaning toward third-party options or might not vote at all. The poll found 8 per cent of respondents would pick Robert Kennedy Jr, an anti-vaccine activist running as an independent, if he were on the ballot with Trump and Biden.
Republican candidate Trump fined $8,000 for violating gag order in New York hush money trial
Trump, the Republican candidate in the 2024 presidential election, is charged with falsifying business records to conceal a $130,000 payment to porn star Stormy Daniels in exchange for her silence about a sexual encounter she said she had with Trump in 2006.
Deportations: Ethiopian diplomats, officials to pay for travel visas as EU tightens requirements
Ethiopia is mired in conflict and a humanitarian crisis. The two-year conflict in the northern Tigray region, which ended with a peace deal in November 2022, left most of the region’s population of 6 million relying on international help.
Chad and Niger question US counterterrorism role in Africa as Washington influence recedes
Called status-of-forces agreements, these deals allow the US to conduct critical counterterrorism operations within both countries’ borders and have supported military partner training. The reversals have prompted concern that US influence in Africa is losing ground to overtures from Russia and China.
Haiti interim government sworn in as gangs hold capital ‘hostage’ and Kenya promises ‘rapid deployment’
Armed gangs, equipped with weapons trafficked largely from the United States, have for years tightened their grip on the capital and sought to topple Henry. Since he pledged to resign last month, they have called for a broader “revolution”.
As US Supreme Court starts hearing Trump’s insurrection case judges seem to lean towards immunity
Trump has pleaded not guilty in this case and in three other criminal cases he faces, including an ongoing trial on New York state charges related to hush money paid to a porn star shortly before the 2016 US election that put him in the White House. Trump did not attend the Supreme Court arguments because he was in a Manhattan courtroom in that case.
Human Rights Watch report accuses Burkina Faso army of killing 223 civilians, including babies
The once-peaceful nation has been ravaged by violence that has pitted jihadis linked to al-Qaeda and the Islamic State group against state-backed forces. Both sides have targeted civilians caught in the middle, displacing more than two million people, of which over half are children. Most attacks go unpunished and unreported in a nation run by a repressive leadership that silences perceived dissidents.
