FOREIGN NEWS

Nigeria has again been confirmed as the topmost indebted country to foreign airlines globally in far away Geneva, Switzerland. The Regional Vice President for Africa and the Middle East (AME) for IATA, Kamil Al-Awadhi, revealed this during an interactive session with journalists across Africa at the two days Global Media Day held in Geneva Thursday. […]

US Senator Tim Scott announced Sunday that he is withdrawing from the US presidential race, saying voters had given him a clear message of “not now.” The South Carolina lawmaker, who was running to become the first Black Republican president, had been struggling to rise above the pack in the party’s crowded field. Polling in […]

British leader Rishi Sunak on Monday sacked controversial interior minister Suella Braverman as he reshuffles his top team ahead of a general election expected next year. Sunak had come under growing pressure to axe Braverman, an outspoken right-winger, after critics accused her of heightening tensions during weeks of contentious pro-Palestinian demonstrations and counter-protests in Britain. […]

Former UK prime minister David Cameron made a surprise return to frontline politics Monday after British leader Rishi Sunak appointed him foreign secretary in a government reshuffle. Cameron, who was Britain’s leader from 2010 to 2016 before quitting after losing the Brexit referendum, replaces James Cleverly — who was appointed interior minister — in an […]

The European Union on Monday took a legal step towards imposing sanctions on the military junta that took power in a coup in July. The 27-nation bloc has condemned the ouster of Niger’s democratically elected President Mohamed Bazoum that toppled a key Western partner in the jihadist-hit region. The EU announced it had adopted a […]

The wife of Gabon’s ousted president Ali Bongo Ondimba has been charged with “money laundering” and other offences, the public prosecutor said Friday, a month after a coup toppled her husband. Sylvia Bongo Ondimba Valentin was charged by an investigating judge on Thursday and Andre Patrick Roponat announced on state TV channel on Friday. She […]

U.S. President Joe Biden has appointed two Nigerian-Americans as advisers. The appointees – Osagie Imasogie and Chiney Ogwumike – are part of the 12 members of the President’s Advisory Council on African Diaspora Engagement in the United States. Congratulating the duo on the appointment, the Chairperson of the Nigerians in Diaspora Commission (NIDCOM), Abike Dabiri-Erewa, […]

Rwandan President Paul Kagame has said for the first time that he plans to run for a fourth term in elections due to be held next year. “Yes, I am indeed a candidate,” Kagame, who has ruled over the country with an iron fist for decades, told Jeune Afrique, a French-language news magazine, in an […]

Gabon’s former president Ali Bongo, who was ousted in a putsch, is free to leave the country and travel abroad, the leader of the coup that toppled him said on Wednesday. “He has freedom of movement… and can travel abroad if he wishes,” General Brice Oligui Nguema said in a statement.  Bongo, in power for […]

US Secretary of State Antony Blinken announced $1 billion of aid during a surprise visit Wednesday to Ukraine, which suffered a Russian strike that killed at least 17 people at a market. The attack, which President Volodymyr Zelensky described as deliberate and “heinous”, drew international condemnation from the West, including accusations of war crimes. Projectiles […]