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Hangzhou, China | AFP |  This year’s most exclusive and closely-watched diplomatic party –- the G20 summit –- saw presidents and prime ministers from countries representing 85 percent of the global economy gather in the Chinese city of Hangzhou. How did the first China-hosted G20 go? While analysts correctly foresaw …

Vienna, Austria | AFP | Alternative for Germany is not the only populist party enjoying electoral success. Across Europe, these are fertile times for protest movements tapping into unease about immigration to attack a long-cosy political establishment. The anti-immigration AfD scored a major symbolic victory on Sunday by relegating German …

Luanda, Angola | AFP |  Angolan President Jose Eduardo dos Santos on Monday sacked his finance minister Armando Manuel, the presidency announced, as the country battles an economic crisis caused by sinking oil prices. No reason was given for the dismissal of the 44-year-old London-educated minister who has held the …

New York, United States | AFP | Hillary Clinton embarks Monday on a campaign swing across battleground states, bringing traveling press aboard her plane for the first time as she seeks to regain momentum against her White House rival Donald Trump. Clinton, the Democratic nominee, will attend events with working …

 Danger of expecting leaders of poor African countries to govern like the rich Imagine a romantic relationship between a poor young guy and a demanding girlfriend. They live in a community with former school and classmates all of whom are rich kids living in posh neighborhoods, driving fancy cars, wearing …

Zimbabwe’s President Robert Mugabe joked Saturday that he had been resurrected as he returned from a foreign trip, mocking rumours that he had died or is critically ill. “Yes, I was dead. It’s true I was dead. I resurrected as I always do once I get back to my country. …

Seoul, South Korea | AFP |  North Korea has executed a vice premier for showing disrespect during a meeting presided over by leader Kim Jong-Un, and banished two other officials for re-education, South Korea said Wednesday. Since taking power after his father’s death in late 2011, Kim is believed to …

Women activists under their umbrella body the Uganda Women Network (UWONET) have demanded the resignation of State Minister for Water Ronald Kibuule for allegedly assaulting a bank female security officer who attempted to search him. Ronald Kibuule has denied the allegations, saying that all he did was caution the guard. He …

VIDEO; The proposed political dialogue between the opposition and the ruling national resistance movement continues to generate heated debate. A section of Ugandans think the Forum for Democratic Change (FDC) only intends to hold the country at ransom. Whereas the FDC maintains that the proposed talks must fall in the …

Khartoum, Sudan | AFP |  South Sudan’s former rebel leader Riek Machar has been discharged from hospital in Khartoum after being treated for a swollen leg, his aides told AFP on Friday. Machar was replaced by Taban Deng Gai as South Sudan’s first vice president after hundreds of people died …