Abuja, Nigeria | AFP | Nigeria has struck off 50,000 “ghost workers” from the state payrolls this year, saving nearly 630 million euros, the presidency said Tuesday. The office of President Muhammadu Buhari, who was voted into power last year vowing to stamp out endemic graft in Africa’s most populous …
Read More »VIDEO: Year 2016 – The defiance campaign
VIDEO: Even before the Electoral Commission declared NRM’s Yoweri Museveni the winner of the 2016 presidential poll, Rtd Col Dr Kizza Besigye already predicted what was forth coming and announced he would still end up in state house through what he called defiance. At the time of his announcement last year, people …
Read More »Year 2016: Corruption was king…..Panama Papers to impeachments
2016 rocked by corruption scandals Panama City, Panama | AFP | From the Panama Papers to the impeachments of the presidents of Brazil and South Korea, 2016 was a year marked by corruption scandals, and by rising public outrage over graft. The question is, will that translate into a lasting …
Read More »Christmas brings some relief for Kabila and DRC
DR Congo crisis talks suspended, hopes for deal by year end Kinshasa, DR Congo | AFP | Talks to end DR Congo’s dangerous political crisis were suspended on Saturday until after Christmas after a fruitless 48 hours of negotiations over President Joseph Kabila’s refusal to quit power. Kabila’s second and …
Read More »PUTIN: Nobody believed that Trump would win except us
Putin warms to Trump, flexes muscles on Syria Moscow, Russia | AFP | Russian President Vladimir Putin on Friday appeared to cosy up to US President-elect Donald Trump while asserting his authority as the key powerbroker in Syria. At his annual end-of-year press conference, the confident Kremlin strongman praised Trump …
Read More »Israel rejects UN settler vote, lashes out at Obama
Jerusalem, Undefined | AFP | Israel lashed out at US President Barack Obama over a UN Security Council resolution passed Friday demanding it halt settlements in Palestinian territory, while vowing it would not abide by it. “Israel rejects this shameful anti-Israel resolution at the UN and will not abide by …
Read More »Next on Trump’s radar is the UN
After Israel vote, Trump promises change at UN Palm Beach, United States | AFP | US President-elect Donald Trump on Friday vowed that the country’s policies at the United Nations will change after he takes office. “As to the UN, things will be different after Jan 20th,” he said on …
Read More »Golf’s Tiger Woods hits the links with Donald Trump
Miami, United States | AFP | Tiger Woods, who played golf three years ago with Barack Obama, teed off Friday with White House successor Donald Trump at the real estate mogul’s swank Trump International Golf Club in Palm Beach, Florida. Woods, who will celebrate his 41st birthday on December 30, …
Read More »Reports says Snowden a ‘fabricator’ in contact with Russian intel
Washington, United States | AFP | A scathing US Congressional report released Thursday branded intelligence leaker Edward Snowden a “serial exaggerator and fabricator” and said he has had continual contact with Russian intelligence services. The partially redacted report, released by the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence, portrays Snowden as …
Read More »Grace Mugabe told to return property in diamond ring spat
Harare, Zimbabwe | AFP | A Zimbabwean court has ordered President Robert Mugabe’s wife to return three properties she seized from a local businessman in a messy dispute over a $1.35-million diamond ring, a lawyer said Thursday. Grace Mugabe was taken to court by Jamal Ahmed after she took over …
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