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Former U.S. President Bill Clinton and former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton have called for their upcoming congressional testimony regarding their past connections to convicted sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein to be held in public, arguing that closed-door proceedings risk politicizing the...
Pakistan on Saturday began burying the victims of a deadly suicide bombing at a Shi’ite Muslim mosque in Islamabad, as thousands of mourners gathered under heavy security and authorities warned that further militant attacks could not be ruled out. At least 31 people were killed and more than 170...
President Donald Trump on Friday removed a controversial social media post that included racist imagery depicting former President Barack Obama and former First Lady Michelle Obama as cartoon apes, but said he would not apologize for sharing the content, even as the episode sparked swift...
The White House is preparing to host the inaugural leaders’ meeting of President Donald Trump’s “Board of Peace” on February 19, 2026, in Washington, officials and diplomats told Axios in reporting that signals a U.S.-led effort to steer Gaza reconstruction and broader conflict resolution...
Nigeria’s lead female presidential Obiageli Ezekwesili has withdrawn from the race with just 22 days left to the much hyped polls.
In a statement released Thursday (24 January) she said she was stepping aside from “to help build a coalition to defeat” the two main contenders –...
Oliver Mtukudzi is no more. For decades he was not only a household name in Africa, but across the globe and appealed to a diverse audiences. However, as we reported in the archive piece below when Ish Mafundikwa caught up with him back in 2012, there was much much more to the affable Tuku,...
Perhaps for the first time since the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989, the annual gathering of the world’s richest nations (and a fair sprinkling of those on the other side of the divide) for the World Economic Forum summit at Davos, Switzerland, will show more fissures than the proverbial Swiss...
The election of Dr. Abiy Ahmed as Ethiopia’s new Prime Minister could well prove to be a pivotal moment in the country’s history. Suddenly, everything is possible. By Mimi Alemayehou
Certain years in the life of a nation can be so pivotal that they represent a rebirth. Think of 1865,...
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Established by the Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC) of the United Nations (UN) in 1958 as one of the UN’s five regional commissions, ECA’s mandate is...