Category : POLITICS

By Kelly O’Donnell President Joe Biden plans to sign restrictions Monday on travel to the United States to mitigate Covid-19 transmission, two White House officials confirmed Sunday. The...

Chief Justice Roberts, Vice-President Harris, Speaker Pelosi, Leader Schumer, Leader McConnell, Vice-President Pence, distinguished guests and my fellow Americans. This is America’s day. This is...

Joe Biden will be sworn in as the 46th president of the United States on Wednesday. While many of the traditional inauguration festivities have been...

President Muhammadu Buhari on his arrival at the airport in Abuja yesterday revealed that he is in good health. The President’s aircraft touched down at...

The United States Government has pledged to support Nigeria in ensuring a transparent, credible and peaceful general election next year. The United States Consular, John...

  Presidential hopeful Dr Edward Mahama has said he is embarking on a crusade to turn Ghana around. The five-time flagbearer of the People’s National...

Bernard Katompa, President of the Génération Déterminée Movement in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), provides his take on what’s at stake in the DRC...

Thousands of Besigye’s supporters escort their candidate to Nakivubo Stadium from Mandela National StadiumDr. Kizza Besigye will vie for next year’s presidential election alongside seven...

UNICEF Good Will Ambassador, Harry Belafonte, addresses event “Confronting Silence Perspectives and Dialogue on Structural Racism against people of African Descent Worldwide,”  Debunking the myth...

Simmering disputes between rival factions have exploded after one part of Nidaa Tounes accused the president of a plotting a dynasty of power Deputies of...

TANZANIA, where ruling party candidate John Magufuli was on Thursday declared the winner of a hotly contested presidential vote, has a history of troubled elections...

Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s first meeting on Wednesday will be at 9 am with Mr Mugabe. NEW DELHI:  Prime Minister Narendra Modi will have bilateral...

A group of Arab, Islamic and Western countries, including Qatar, urged all Libyan parties to approve the political agreement brokered by the UN Special Representative...

Ex-Seleka and anti-balaka combatants have been marching on the capital Bangui, aiming at direct confrontation. The prospect of presidential elections, planned for December, is fuelling tensions further. After the...

   Egypt’s PM Sherif Ismael (Al-Ahram) Egypt’s cabinet gave state employees a half-day off on Monday, the second day of voting in the first stage...

Beards without moustaches, the trademark of ultraconservative Islamists, were all the rage at this campaign rally, among both speakers and the men in the audience,...