Politics

A 78-year-old American, a permanent resident of Hong Kong, has been sentenced in China to life in prison for “espionage”, a local court announced on Monday. John Shing-wan Leung, also known as Liang Chengyun, “was guilty of espionage and was sentenced to life imprisonment as well as lifetime deprivation of …

Former Ghanaian President John Mahama has been elected as the flag bearer of the National Democratic Congress (NDC), the country’s largest opposition party, for next year’s elections. The former president was declared the winner on Sunday after securing 98.9% of the total valid votes in the party’s primaries held on …

The East African Community (EAC) has urged Democratic Republic of Congo’s leader to respect regional states’ move to deploy forces in an attempt to stabilise eastern parts of his country, the BBC reported. President Félix Tshisekedi on Tuesday accused the East African force of not doing its job, warning if …

The US ambassador to Pretoria has made a damning accusation against the South African government – and it seems to have caught South African officials off-guard. Ambassador Reuben Brigety says that the US has reliable intelligence that South Africa supplied arms and ammunition to a Russian ship which had docked, …

A New York court on Tuesday found former US President Donald Trump responsible for sexual assault, for acts dating back to 1996 on a former journalist. He will have to pay 5 million dollars in compensation for sexual assault and defamation. Deliberations by the nine-member jury began after Judge Lewis …

The European Union has proposed imposing sanctions on Chinese companies accused of selling material that could be used for weapons to help the Russian war effort, the Financial Times reported on Sunday, which said it had able to consult a document. According to the newspaper, several Chinese companies are targeted …

This Monday, May 8, the day of celebration of the victory of the Allies over Nazi Germany and the end of the Second World War, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky affirmed that Russia will be defeated “in the same way” as Nazism l was in 1945. “All the old evil that …

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky called for the creation of a special tribunal for the crime of aggression, during a speech of about twenty minutes given this Thursday during an unannounced visit to the International Criminal Court (ICC). “We all want to see another Vladimir here in The Hague,” he said, …

Some South Africans are calling for Britain to return the world’s largest diamond, known as the Star of Africa, which is set in the royal sceptre that King Charles III will hold at his coronation on Saturday. The diamond, which weighs 530 carats, was discovered in South Africa in 1905 …

The U.N. World Food Programme suspends food distribution in Ethiopia’s war-ravaged Tigray region in response to reports that significant amounts of aid were being diverted, the agency said. The announcement follows a similar one by the U.S. Agency for International Development, which said on Wednesday it had discovered that food …