FOREIGN NEWS

South African President Cyril Ramaphosa is embroiled in a scandal over an alleged cover-up that has imperilled his political future. A complaint filed in June accused Ramaphosa of having attempted to conceal the theft of a cash haul at his farm. It alleged he arranged for the burglars to be kidnapped and bribed into silence […]

US consumer inflation eased in November, bringing some relief to policymakers, according to government data released Tuesday, but the figure is still about three times the pre-pandemic pace. The consumer price index (CPI), a closely-watched measure of inflation, jumped 7.1 percent from a year ago, down from 7.7 percent in October, according to figures released […]

Most people don’t have to worry if their signature is sloppy — but if it’s your name on the US dollar bill, it’s best to practice, says US Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen. In addition to the first female Treasury secretary’s name appearing on them, the new notes unveiled Thursday will also be historic for including […]

The United Kingdom-based African Leadership Magazine (ALM) has named the Director-General of the World Trade Organisation (WTO), Dr Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala as “African Female Leader of the Year”. According to a statement by ALM, the category was part of the “11th African leadership persons of the year award – 2022”. Also, the President of Sierra Leone, […]

Dina Boluarte was sworn in on Wednesday at Congress as the first female President of Peru and the sixth one in five years. Boluarte, Peruvian former vice president succeeded her former principal, Pedro Castillo who was impeached and arrested for scheming to dissolve parliament. Castillo was impeached by a majority of 101 members in the […]

US President Joe Biden celebrated the strengthening of his party’s majority in the Senate on Tuesday after Democrat Raphael Warnock was declared the winner of a runoff election in Georgia. The incumbent senator defeated Republican Herschel Walker, a former football star and protege of former president Donald Trump, according to projections by television networks. Warnock’s […]

Indonesia’s parliament approved legislation on Tuesday that would outlaw sex outside marriage in a move critics said was a huge setback to rights in the world’s most populous Muslim country. After the new criminal code was endorsed by all nine parties in a sweeping overhaul of the legal code, deputy house speaker Sufmi Dasco Ahmad […]

Austin Walsh, a 23-year-old Florida deputy was Saturday morning ‘jokingly’ shot dead by his ‘best friend’ in his Palm Bay residence in Florida.   According to Brevard County Sheriff Wayne Ivey in a video statement shared on the County’s Facebook page, his best friend, Andrew Lawson who also happens to be his roommate jokingly pointed […]

Six civilians, four of them teachers, were killed in a suspected jihadist attack in southern Burkina Faso close to the border with Ghana, security officials and local sources said on Monday. Gunmen “opened fire on a group” in the town of Bittou on Sunday, a security source said, adding that the attackers had fled to […]

When Ghana face Uruguay on Friday in their decisive final World Cup group match, one name that will be on the minds of many from the West African country is Luis Suarez. The Uruguay striker broke Ghanaian hearts at the 2010 World Cup when his deliberate handball stopped a certain goal in the dying stages […]