KISUMU, Kenya — The sun had barely risen, but protesters were already bracing for another wave of confrontations with the police in the city of Kisumu on Saturday after an election disputed by supporters of Kenya’s opposition party. As the smell of tear gas and smoke from burning debris clung to the morning mist, residents began assessing the damage…
On the 60th day of his presidency came the hardest truth for Donald Trump. He was wrong. James B. Comey — the FBI director whom Trump celebrated on the campaign trail as a gutsy and honorable “Crooked Hillary” truth-teller — testified under oath Monday what many Americans had already assumed: Trump had falsely accused his predecessor of wiretapping his…
President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo on Saturday laid a wreath to mark the 52 anniversary of the death of Dr JB Danquah at a ceremony at the Presbyterian Church Cemetery at Kyebi in the Eastern Region. An emotional President Akufo-Addo who joined family, friends and well-wishers at the ceremony, eulogised the Statesman, Pan-Africanist, Lawyer and Historian, saying: “We came…
WASHINGTON — President Trump fired his acting attorney general on Monday night, removing her as the nation’s top law enforcement officer after she defiantly refused to defend his executive order closing the nation’s borders to refugees and people from predominantly Muslim countries. In an escalating crisis for his 10-day-old administration, the president declared in a statement that Sally Q….
Criticism of President Trump’s immigration orders continued on Jan. 30, as former president Barack Obama issued a statement urging demonstrations to continue and Democrats rallied in protest. Trump hit back by firing the acting attorney general Sally Yates, who instructed Justice Department lawyers not to defend the order. (Video: Reuters / Photo: Michael Robinson Chavez/The Washington Post) On Jan….
Accra – Ghana’s central bank is likely to cut its benchmark interest rate for a second straight meeting after consumer prices rose at the slowest pace since July 2014. Governor Abdul Nashiru Issahaku has enough room to reduce the West African nation’s main rate by as much as 150 basis points from 25.5 percent, according to John Ashbourne, an…
WASHINGTON — Donald John Trump was inaugurated as the 45th president of the United States on Friday, ushering in a new and more unpredictable era in which he vowed to shatter the established order and restore American greatness. From the West Front of the Capitol, overlooking a crowd of hundreds of thousands as rain began to fall, Mr. Trump…
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President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo has appealed to Ghanaians living in and outside the country to rally behind his administration, as he seeks to return the country onto the path of progress and prosperity. Addressing a gathering of Ghanaians resident in Bamako, Mali, on Friday, January 13, 2017 after his arrival in that country for the Africa-France Summit, President…
The National Democratic Congress (NDC) has accused the governing New Patriotic Party (NPP) administration of attempting to divert attention from President Akufo-Addo’s plagiarised inaugural speech. According to the party, the leaking of former President John Mahama’s request letter for the bungalow as his retirement home and portraying him as refusing to move out from his official residence were all diversionary…
