•President Faye and wives Bassirou Diomaye Faye was inaugurated as the fifth Senegal President yesterday, Tuesday, April 2, 2024, flaunting his two wives – Marie Khone and Absa. Faye was sworn in, in Diamniadio near Dakar, the capital, having defeated main rival and ruling party coalition candidate Amadou Ba and winning the delayed election wi...
•President Bassirou Diomaye Faye Left-wing pan-Africanist Bassirou Diomaye Faye on Tuesday became Senegal’s youngest president, pledging systemic change after years of deadly turmoil and announcing his mentor, opposition figure Ousmane Sonko, as prime minister. Faye, 44, has never previously held an elected office. He swept to a first-round vi...
•Taiwan earthquake At least seven people were killed and more than 700 injured today by a powerful earthquake in Taiwan that damaged dozens of buildings and prompted tsunami warnings that extended to Japan and the Philippines before being lifted. Officials said the quake was the strongest to shake the island in decades, and warned of […...
•A Ugandan wearing a mask with a rainbow sticker takes part in the Gay Pride parade. Uganda’s Constitutional Court has today rejected a bid to overturn a controversial anti-gay law that is considered one of the toughest in the world. “We decline to nullify the Anti-Homosexuality Act 2023 in its entirety, neither will we grant […]
•Donald Trump Democrats blitzed target states today with a campaign to mobilize voters on reproductive rights ahead of November’s election, highlighting efforts by Donald Trump and the Republicans to curb abortion access. House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries headlined a “field hearing” in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, a day after a ruling by the ...
•Jacob Zuma South Africa’s former president Jacob Zuma today filed an appeal against a decision by electoral officials barring him from running in elections as tensions mount ahead of the May polls. The electoral commission last week excluded the 81-year-old politician, who is campaigning for a new opposition party, over a 2021 contempt of cou...
•Kenyatta National Hospital Kenya’s largest referral hospital today said it would dispose of more than 500 bodies, most of them children, that lay unclaimed. Families have up to seven days to identify and collect the 541 bodies at the Kenyatta National Hospital mortuary, it said in a notice on its website. “Failure to which the […]...
Bassirou Diomaye Faye (L) being sworn in as president Bassirou Diomaye Faye, a left-wing pan-Africanist, was sworn in today as Senegal’s youngest president after sweeping to a first-round victory on a pledge of radical reform 10 days after he was released from prison. The 44-year-old has never before held an elected office but several African ...
•Sisi Egypt’s President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi was sworn in today before parliament for his third term in office as leader of the Arab world’s most populous country. In power for the past decade, Sisi is set to remain president until 2030, after winning a December election with 89.6 percent of the vote against three relative […]
•Finnish school At least three students were injured after a child opened fire at a primary school in Vantaa outside the Finnish capital today. The attacker has been taken into custody, reports AFP. A police statement said: “All those involved in the shooting incident are minors. According to the police’s current information, there are three [...
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