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Former South African president Jacob Zuma on Monday appeared before a state commission investigating serious allegations of corruption during his tenure as head of state between 2009 and 2018. It was the first time Zuma had appeared before the judicial inquiry since he abandoned his testimony at the hearing more than a year ago. The commission has no powers to… Read More

President Donald Trump on Sunday appeared to acknowledge for the first time that Joe Biden won the White House, but made clear he would not concede and would keep trying to overturn the election result. Trump’s statements came in tweets that included several baseless claims about the Nov. 3 vote, which state and federal officials say was safe and secure.… Read More

The Nobel peace prize is a rare honor. But many receipients of the prestigious award have gone on to undermine, shoot, even bomb away the very peace they were recognized for facilitating or fighting for. Abiy Ahmed, Prime Minister of Ethiopia (2019) For Ethiopian prime minister Abiy Ahmed, the award came after his bold reforms soon after coming to power… Read More

Battles are raging in Ethiopia’s northern Tigray state. The Ethiopian government has called it a law enforcement operation against a rebellious region. The Tigray regional leadership has called the federal army operations …an invasion. The region’s leader has urged his people to defend themselves against the national army. Debretsion Gebremicheal has since been removed by the federal parliament. The clashes… Read More

After a lively weekend raised fears of escalating violence in the northern Tigray region, various mediation efforts tried to silence weapons in a crisis that now heightens fears of a regional conflict in the Horn of Africa. On Monday, Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni reportedly met Ethiopian Deputy Prime Minister, Demeke Mekonnen. The two men called for negotiations to end clashes… Read More

US biotech firm Moderna on Monday announced its experimental vaccine against Covid-19 was almost 95 percent effective, marking a major breakthrough in the quest to end the pandemic. Moderna released early results from a clinical trial with more than 30,000 participants, after American pharmaceutical company Pfizer and its German partner BioNTech last week said their vaccine was 90 percent effective.… Read More

A week before the presidential amd legistlative election, the head of Burkina Faso‘s opposition and presidential candidate Zephirin Diabre holds a rally attended by thousands in a stadium in the capital he criticized the governance of President Roch Kabore. _”Fight against insecurity: zero out of twenty. National reconciliation: zero out of twenty. Promotion of women: zero out of twenty. Fight… Read More

Tunisia’s President Kais Saied and Qatar seek to promote dialogue between Muslims and the West to prevent anti-Muslim backlashes following extremist attacks, he said during a visit to Doha on Sunday. The initiatve appeared to be partly in response to the French president’s s remarks that Islam is in crisis following several Jihadist attacks in the country. Last month, President… Read More

A leader of the Polisario Front said on Sunday that the independence movement was mobilizing “thousands of volunteers” to join the Saharawi armed forces on the third day of the crisis between it and Morocco in the disputed territory of Western Sahara. “Thousands of volunteers are joining the military regions among those who have finished their education,” Mohamed Salem Ould… Read More

Participants of the the UN-brokered Libyan Political Dialogue Forum failed to reach a full agreement in discussions over the future of Libya and potential resolutions to the country’s ongoing civil war. Despite a week of meetings in Tunisia having already taken place, Deputy Special Representative of the United Nations Support Mission in Libya Stephanie Williams told journalists in Tunis on… Read More