BRITAIN has imposed a travel ban and an asset freeze on Angolan billionaire Isabel dos Santos under its global anti-corruption sanctions regime, the British government said on Thursday. Dos Santos, whose father Jose Eduardo dos Santos ruled Angola for 38…
THE court had sought the arrests of Benjamin Netanyahu and the former Israeli defense minister, Yoav Gallant, over war crimes in Gaza. It also issued a warrant for Hamas’s military chief.
INDIA’s top court has dismissed a petition seeking to suspend military exports from India following a plea from human rights activists and scholars to minimise India’s complicity in potential Israeli war crimes in Gaza. In its ruling on Monday, India’s…
THE United States on Wednesday vetoed a UN Security Council draft resolution that demanded an immediate and unconditional ceasefire in the Gaza Strip. In spite of having secured 14 votes in favour, the draft resolution put forward by the 10…
KIZZA Besigye, the prominent Ugandan opposition leader, has allegedly been kidnapped and is now being held in a military prison in Kampala, according to his wife, Winnie Byanyima. Byanyima took to X (formerly Twitter) on Tuesday, revealing that Besigye had…
Tanzania has surged to the fourth position in the latest Standard Bank Africa Trade Barometer (ATB), reflecting the country’s growing appeal for trade in Africa. The Standard Bank ATB, a leading trade index, tracks key data on trade openness, finance access,…
THE Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) has launched an investigation following reports of vandalism at the Kinshasa mausoleum of independence hero Patrice Lumumba. The vandalism, discovered on Monday evening, involved damage to the coffin that housed a tooth believed to…
SOUTH Africa has assumed the presidency of the G20, becoming the first African nation to lead the influential bloc of the world’s largest economies. The handover ceremony took place yesterday during the G20 summit in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, reports…
A small village on the Italian island of Sardinia, Ollolai, is extending an invitation to Americans unsettled by the outcome of the recent US presidential election which saw Donald Trump re-elected. The village, which has been battling decades of depopulation,…
THE United States has closed its embassy in Kiev amid concerns over a potential Russian attack. The embassy said in a post on Wednesday it “has received specific information of a potential significant air attack on November 20.” “Out of…
