The decision to postpone this month’s presidential election in Senegal was against the constitution, the country’s top court has ruled. The Constitutional Council annulled both President Macky Sall’s decree and a contentious bill passed by parliament moving the vote to December. Widespread protests have gripped the West African country, once considered a bastion of stability in the region. A leading opposition figure hailed the ruling as “a great day for democracy”. “We’ve been so ashamed by all this violation of the law and the constitution,” Aminata Touré, a former prime minister and now opposition figure, told the BBC’s Newsday programme.…
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Former US President garners over 51 per cent in first Republican party caucus as biotech entrepreneur Vivek Ramaswamy, who came in fourth announces he will end his presidential quest and endorse Trump By TASS News Agency Former US President Donald Trump secured a landslide victory in the Republican caucuses (gatherings of party activists) in the key Midwestern farm state of Iowa, according to results published on the Iowa Republican Party’s website. With all ballots counted, Trump scored 51 per cent of the vote. Florida Governor Ron DeSantis came in second with 21.2 per cent, while former South Carolina Governor and…
By TASS News Agency Argentine’s Lionel Messi was found the best men’s player of 2023, according to the International Association Football Federation (FIFA). The awarding ceremony takes place in London. Other contenders included Norway’s Erling Haaland and France’s Kylian Mbappe. In December 2022, Messi became the world champion, playing in the Argentine national team. He scored seven goals in seven matches and was found the best player of the tournament. He spent the last season in PSG, becoming the Champion of France. In summer of 2023, Messi joined Inter Miami, where he won the Leagues Cup. This has become his…
The new prime minister Gabriel Attal has earned a reputation of a man of action, a competent and ambitious politician. Education Minister Gabriel Attal, 34, has been named France’s new prime minister, replacing Elisabeth Borne who was dismissed by President Emmanuel Macron on January 9, according to the BFMTV television channel. Attal will replace Borne, who had served as France’s Prime Minister since May 2022, after she was dismissed by President Emmanuel Macron on January 9. He becomes France’s youngest prime minister ever, a mark previously held by Laurent Fabius, who was appointed French prime minister at the age of…
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As many as 208 lawmakers voted for the bill and two abstained. The initiative was backed by the ruling party and the leading opposition party.
The Conversation China has a gender crisis. The country has a huge surplus of men – around 722 million compared to 690 million women in 2022. This is largely because of sex-selective abortions linked to China’s one-child policy, which ended in 2015. Though popular belief is that the policy was strictly enforced, many Chinese couples managed to have more than one child by paying fines, accepting benefit deprivations, or proclaiming their membership of a minority ethnic group. Often, they chose to do so because their first child was a girl. The one-child policy lasted three and a half decades, replaced by the two-child policy in 2016 and…
Zimbabwe has limited admission of foreign envoys attending President Emmerson Mnangagwa’s inauguration to those accompanying their respective Heads of State. The country’s Secretary for Foreign Affairs Ambassador James Manzou advised diplomats whose Heads of State will not be traveling for the event to keep off. “Please be advised that only heads of mission whose heads of states or government are attending the inauguration ceremony will be allowed to come,” he said in a note sent to all missions represented in Harare. Kenya dispatched Prime Cabinet Secretary Musalia Mudavadi to represent President William Ruto at the second-term inauguration of President Mnangagwa…
The Conversation Global fertiliser suppliers have made incredibly high profits in 2022/23 on the back of price spikes attributed to the Russia-Ukraine war. The profits of the world’s top nine producers trebled in 2022 from two years previously. The margins and impacts have been even greater on fertiliser supplies to African farmers. Moreover, the super-high profit margins are being sustained in 2023 in many African countries even while international prices have come down (see figure 1). The harvest season has recently come to an end in most countries in southern Africa with farmer margins and production being squeezed by high input costs.…
By Agence France-Presse (AFP) China’s top diplomat Wang Yi during a visit to Kenya on Saturday praised the two countries’ economic partnership as a “win-win”, according to a statement from the Chinese authorities. Kenya and China have “become good friends with mutual trust in politics and good partners with win-win economic cooperation”, according to the statement from the Chinese embassy in Kenya. With the most dynamic economy in East Africa, Kenya is considered by the international community as a stable democracy in a troubled region. China is the second-largest donor to Kenya after the World Bank. In Mombasa, on the…
