Kylian Mbappe has embarked on a spectacular rant at current club Paris Saint-Germain after he was left unimpressed by using him as their poster boy for season tickets ahead of next summer’s new campaign. The French forward displayed his vehement anger towards his employers after using an image of himself to get fans onboard with […]
Economies in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) are expected to grow at a slower pace in 2023, as double-digit food inflation adds pressure on poorer households and the impact of food insecurity can span generations, according to the World Bank’s latest economic update. Titled “Altered Destinies: The Long-Term Effects of Rising Prices and […]
Five months before elections, the parliament in Gabon on Thursday voted to reduce the president’s term from seven to five years. The vote amends the Constitution and also turns the presidential election into a single round. Sections of the opposition criticised the changes, in particular the end of two rounds of voting, as a means […]
Italian former prime minister Silvio Berlusconi, dubbed “the immortal” for his longevity in politics, was “stable” Thursday after a night in intensive care but has reportedly been diagnosed with leukaemia. The 86-year-old media mogul and senator, who has been in and out of hospital in recent years, was admitted Wednesday to the cardiac unit at […]
Frank Lampard is set to return for a second spell in charge of Chelsea on an interim basis until the end of the season, according to reports on Wednesday. Lampard, who was sacked earlier this season by Everton, was dismissed by Chelsea in 2021 after 18 months in charge. Sky Sports and The Athletic reported […]
Lawyers acting for a university student who died in the custody of Cameroon’s military intelligence are calling for the government to create an independent commission to investigate the death. The body of Ngule Linus was taken by plainclothes officers to a hospital in Buea, Southwest Cameroon, hours after he and a friend were arrested, the […]
Cameroon says fighting between troops and rebels is slowing reconstruction of homes, schools, hospitals, and other public buildings in its troubled western regions. Authorities say in the three years since the launch of a reconstruction plan for thousands of homes and hundreds of public buildings damaged in the seven-year separatist conflict, less than 100 have […]
Cameroon’s reconstruction plan for the troubled English-speaking regions is working despite ongoing violence, according Archbishop Andrew Nkea Fuanya of Bamenda. The plan was established on April 3, 2020, to rebuild infrastructure that have been shattered by a separatist war in the African country’s North West and South West regions. Cameroon’s two English-speaking regions which constitute […]
As expected, the former US president has entered a “not guilty” plea, Reuters reports. Wearing a dark blue suit and red tie, Trump, 76, pleaded not guilty to 34 felony counts of falsifying business records. Trump has entered the courtroom on the 15th floor of the Manhattan Criminal Courts building, where his arraignment will begin […]
Donald Trump will make an unprecedented appearance before a New York judge Tuesday to answer criminal charges that threaten to throw the 2024 White House race into turmoil. Trump is the first sitting or former American president to be criminally indicted — a historic development that has propelled the United States into uncharted political waters. […]
