President John Mahama of Ghana will on January 7 hand over the reins of power to Nana Akufo-Addo, who was elected last December. Many African leaders, including President Muhammadu Buhari of Nigeria will be attending the inauguration. Mr. Buhari will leave Abuja for Accra on Saturday morning. The Nigerian leader will join other Heads of State and Government to…
Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo Addo, President-Elect of the Republic of Ghana on Friday assured the nation that he would be a leader for all Ghanaians irrespective of their political leanings, creed or ethnicity. “Fellow Ghanaians you have not elected me to serve one party but to serve the entire nation. The president of Ghana is the president for every…
NAIROBI, Kenya — Did a group of bishops just disarm one of the most explosive political problems in Africa? Shortly before midnight on New Year’s Eve, with crowds waiting anxiously in the streets of Kinshasa, the capital of the Democratic Republic of Congo, Catholic bishops announced a deal that could calm a very turbulent nation. Congo’s president, Joseph Kabila,…
PARIS — Since 2011, when investigators first impounded luxury cars held by the family of Equatorial Guinea’s president, anticorruption groups hoped that France would deal a mortal blow to the injustice they believe has enriched the country’s elites while many of its citizens languish in poverty. On Wednesday, a judge decided they would have to wait a bit longer….
As boy bands go, it was an unlikely crew. In a five-minute video posted online this week, a band of seven aging Nigerian leaders — all but one of them retired — sang a New Year’s hymn of peace for their country. Gowon, Obasanjo, Shonekan, Ekwueme, Osinbajo form choir, sing for greater Nigeria Video by Oak TV But the…
German prosecutors have added six counts of murder and war crimes to the charges against an imprisoned Islamic State member from Germany who attracted global attention after claiming disillusionment and disgust with the terrorist group. The new accusations, announced by the prosecutors on Tuesday, were brought three months after a video surfaced suggesting that the recruit, Harry Sarfo, 28,…
Messaging app becomes vital tool for diplomats to talk tactics, arrange huddles, tweak policy – and send Vladimir Putin emojis When the world’s nations sit down to talk nowadays, there is a distinct difference to the way diplomacy is done. Influence is no longer defined only by special relationships and old alliances, but which WhatsApp group you are invited…
Police have detained two Moroccans who tried to smuggle migrants into Spain’s North African enclave of Ceuta – two hidden in a car and one in a suitcase. When police checked a car on Monday one person was found hidden in the dashboard and another in the hollowed-out back seat. The man and woman, thought to be Guineans, received…
The Gambia’s Independent Electoral Commission (IEC) chief has gone into hiding, his family has told the BBC. There are unconfirmed reports that Alieu Momar Njai, who announced Yahya Jammeh’s defeat in the polls last month, has fled the country. President Jammeh initially accepted defeat, but then changed his mind and is now refusing to step down. Security forces took…
A strategy that went from a “good war” to the shorthand“Afghan good enough” reflects the president’s comingto terms with what was possible in Afghanistan. WASHINGTON — President Obama’s advisers wrestled with an intractable problem in the spring and summer of 2015: How could they stabilize Afghanistan while preserving Mr. Obama’s longtime goal of pulling out the last American troops…
