Sadok Belaid, head of the constitutional project drawn up by President Kais Saied rejects the president’s plan, saying it is dangerous for the country. Belaid, who oversaw Tunisia’s draft new constitution, said some chapters could pave the way for dictatorial rule. Tasked by President Kais Saied with overhauling Tunisia’s constitution, …
Read More »Economy: Central African Republic launches its Bitcoin hub
The Central African Republic government is launching its cryptocurrency hub it named Sango, nearly three months after adopting Bitcoin as one of its official currencies. President Faustin Archange Touadéra launched the hub on Sunday in a live announcement on social networks. The name “Sango” is in one of the country’s …
Read More »USA: Ketanji Brown Jackson sworn in as first African-American Supreme Court justice
Progressive Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson became the first black judge to be sworn in to the Supreme Court on Thursday, a historic entry with no immediate effect on the entire right turn of the American temple of law. Ketanji Brown Jackson replaces progressive magistrate Stephen Breyer, 83, who is retiring. …
Read More »Russia: MPs pass law facilitating foreign media ban
Russian MPs on Thursday passed a law allowing media in countries designated as “unfriendly” to be closed and Russian media accused of disseminating information deemed untrue about the conflict in Ukraine to be suspended. The text gives the prosecution right to “prohibit or limit the activities in Russia” of media …
Read More »Tunisia: President Saied unveils new constitutional project
Tunisian President Kais Saied released details of the new constitutional draft that would significantly expand his powers, local media reported. Written by a commission whose members he himself appointed, the draft Constitution is cut, unsurprisingly, for Kaïs Saïed. Under the proposals, most political power would be exercised by the president. …
Read More »Spain: PM Sanchez clarifies migrant deaths comments – reports
Spanish Prime Minister, Pedro Sanchez, tempered comments he made last week following the deaths of at least 23 migrants on the border between Morocco and the Spanish enclave of Melilla, the BBC reported. He told a Spanish online newspaper (La Sexta) that he had not seen pictures of corpses at …
Read More »Cameroon: adoption of the bill on medically assisted procreation
Cameroonian MPs on Wednesday adopted bill on medically assisted procreation (PMA), a set of clinical practices to help people who have difficulty having a child. The clinical process already practiced for several years in Cameroon, but until now there was no legal framework in this area, reports RFI. The project …
Read More »Uganda: President Museveni bans his son Muhoozi from social social for surprising reason
Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni banned top military commanders, including his son and Commander of the Land Forces (CLF), Lt. Gen. Muhoozi Kainerugaba, from commenting on security and foreign policy issues on social media platforms, reported Daily Monitor. The decision follows a meeting the Commander-in-Chief held with service chiefs last weekend, …
Read More »Ukraine ‘ready’ to resume grain exports to Africa
Ukraine is willing to resume grain exports to Africa and other parts of the world if Russia ends the naval blockade in the Black Sea, the country’s Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba said in an interview with Tanzania’s privately owned The Citizen newspaper. According to Minister Dmytro Kuleba, although many African …
Read More »Sudanese killed in anti-military protests
A protester was killed during anti-military protests in Khartoum on Wednesday after security forces used excessive force, the Central Committee of Sudanese Doctors (CCSD) said. “A martyr, who was not identified, has died after he was shot in the chest by the forces of darkness”, the doctors committee said in …
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