I Return Home With Uneasiness
Ghana’s High Commissioner to Namibia and Botswana, Harruna Attah has said he is returning home with some uneasiness since his critics see his service to the nation as a crime. “As I head home...
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World May Be In For Rocky Road During My Tenure
The political tumult that rocked the world in 2016 might be an appetizer for 2017. Crucial elections loom this year in France and Germany, where the same anti-establishment backlash that produced...
Mali Sends Back France Deportees
Mali has sent back two people who were deported from France on the same planes they arrived on, questioning whether they were even Malian citizens. The pair were flown to Bamako using European travel...
Fethullah Gulen Condemns Assassination of Russian Ambassador To Turkey
Fethullah Gülen, a renowned Turkish Islamic scholar, preacher and social advocate, has condemned the assassination of Russia’s Ambassador to Turkey, Andrey Karlov, in Ankara. The gunman – an...
Ethiopia Says Oromo Leader Detained For Meeting Terrorist Group In Brussels
Ethiopian authorities have clarified that leading opposition figure and Chairman of the Oromo Federalist Congress (OFC), Dr Merera Gudina is in detention for flouting state of emergency rules. The...
AU and UN Laud Firm Stance of ECOWAS, 11 Envoys Desert Jammeh
The African Union (AU) and the United Nations (UN) have issued statements lauding the firm stance taken by the West African regional bloc, Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS). ECOWAS...
‘Surreal’ Is Named 2016 ‘Word of the Year’
Donald Trump's upset win in the US presidential election astonished people so much that they rushed to the dictionary to look up the word everyone was using to describe the event: surreal. Indeed,...
Greece Approves Christmas Bonus As France Challenges German Veto
Greece defied its creditors and approved plans on Thursday to give its battered pensioners a one-off Christmas bonus after France’s president said it was wrong to prevent the country from taking...
EU Extends Russia Sanctions Over Ukraine
EU leaders have agreed to extend economic sanctions against Russia for six more months. Earlier, France and Germany complained that the Minsk peace deal for Ukraine was still not being fulfilled....
Belgian Porn Photos Prompt Suspension of Government Worker
The woman was said to have posed naked on the fifth floor of the interior ministry A woman working for the Belgian interior ministry has been suspended because of pornographic pictures of her taken...
Lawyer of Gabon’s Opposition Leader Reported Missing
A lawyer for the Gabon opposition leader Jean Ping, who is still disputing the re-election of President Ali Bongo, has been missing for three days, according to Ping’s team. Eric Iga Iga, one of...
Exhibition In Leopold Museum
Few readers would know that the late Rudolf Leopold (1925-2010), founder of the Leopold Museum in Vienna, had an interest in African and Oceanian arts and even those aware of this, would hardly know...
EU Negotiator Says ‘time’s Short’ For Reaching Deal
The UK will have to reach a Brexit deal by October 2018, according to the EU's chief negotiator for Brexit. Michel Barnier told reporters that "time will be short" for negotiations because the...
Greece Needs Reforms, Not Debt Relief
Structural reforms rather than debt relief will help Greece to achieve sustainable growth and stay in the euro zone because rates and repayment are putting hardly any burden on its budget, Gerany's...
Top Ethiopian Opposition Leader Arrested
A prominent opposition leader in Ethiopia has been detained after he returned from Europe. Merera Gudina had violated Ethiopia's state of emergency by having contact with "terrorist" and "anti-peace"...
Erdogan Says Turkey Can Spurn EU and Join Shanghai Pact
President Recep Tayyip Erdogan says Turkey should not be "fixated" on joining the EU and has reiterated the idea of joining Russia and China in a Eurasian security group, local media reported Sunday....
Paris Bomber’s Mobile Found Under Papers
A Paris suicide bomber's mobile phone has been found underneath a pile of paperwork in a Belgian police station, many months after it went missing. The phone belonging to Brahim Abdeslam, whose...
Nov. 15 World News Summary At 0045 GMT
BRUSSELS — The European Union (EU)’s foreign and defence ministers on Monday agreed on a new plan on security and defense, EU foreign affairs chief Federica Mogherini said. Mogherini has proposed...
Eurozone Lifts Growth View For 2016 But Cuts 2017’s
The European Union yesterday edged up its eurozone growth forecast for this year but trimmed it for 2017, warning that the economy faced new challenges due to Brexit and rising inequality. Brussels...
EU Commissioner Apologizes For Remarks On China
European Commissioner Guenther Oettinger issued a formal apology on Thursday for remarks that China took offence to but which the German conservative politician had declined to withdraw for several...