A top aide to DR Congo President Felix Tshisekedi was handed 20 years hard labour for corruption on Saturday in a case that has tested the government’s anti-graft credentials. Vital Kamerhe, 61, who served as the president’s chief of staff, was convicted of diverting more than $50 million of public funds, the court in Kinshasa […]

A US judge refused Saturday to block the release of a tell-all book in which President Donald Trump’s former national security advisor, John Bolton, describes him as corrupt and incompetent. With John Bolton’s book already widely shipped to stores for sale next week, Judge Royce Lamberth wrote that it is too late for a restraining […]

US Protesters have toppled Washington DC’s only statue of a Confederate general and set it on fire, according to US media, an act labeled a “disgrace” by President Donald Trump. The images, broadcast on ABC7 News late Friday, showed the figure of Albert Pike being pulled down by rope before dozens of demonstrators started chanting […]

Nobel Prize-winning activist Malala Yousafzai, who moved to Britain after being shot for campaigning for girls’ education in Pakistan, described her joy Friday at graduating from Oxford University. Almost eight years after she was attacked by the Taliban on her school bus in the Swat Valley, the Malala, 22-year-old, posted her photos on Twitter of […]

Kenya was elected to the UN Security Council on Thursday after defeating Djibouti in a run-off vote. The East African nation will replace South Africa in the non-permanent seat. It received 129 votes against Djibouti’s 62. Niger and Tunisia are the other representatives of the African continent. Kenya’s President Uhuru Kenyatta said the win was […]