Tunisian police on Thursday arrested former prime minister Hamadi Jebali, who is also a former senior member in the Ennahda party, on suspicion of money laundering, his lawyer told Reuters. Police in the city of Sousse seized Jebali’s phone and his wife’s phone and took him to an unknown location, according to a statement by his family on…
The Prince of Wales is expected to tell Commonwealth leaders their diversity is a “strength” at the opening of a global summit in Rwanda. The Commonwealth Head of Government Meeting begins in Kigali later, with Prince Charles representing the Queen. He will tell leaders their differences are a positive they can use to “speak up…
A considerable part of the Mozambique population relies on charcoal. And while the world’s largest economies distrubute it on an industrial scale, there it is done by bycicle. Vendors have to cover several hundred kilometres a week and the distance is increasing. _”There are no trees around here anymore. That’s why people are going far away, to cut…
Rwandan president Paul Kagame and BioNtech’s CEO Ugur Sahin launched on Thursday, the construction of a messenger RNA vaccine factory in Kigali. It is Africa’s first of three planned projects on the continent and aims to produce treatments against Covid-19 and other diseases by early 2024. “BioNTech is researching and developing vaccines and medicines to prevent…
Vital Kamerhe, DRC’s president Tshisekedi’s former chief of staff has won his battle. Sentenced to 20 years in prison in 2020 for embezzling around 50 million dollars, the politician was totally cleared on appeal on Thursday. His co-accused, Lebanese businessman Sanoh Jammal was also acquitted. The Kinshasa-Gombe Court of Appeal said lack of evidence was the reason…
Some countries in Asia, Africa and the Middle East have refused to isolate Russia, despite the EU’s lobbying efforts. By Priyanka Shankar Brussels, Belgium – European Union officials are preparing to meet in Brussels on Thursday, where they are expected to grant EU candidacy status to Ukraine in a gesture of solidarity amid the conflict with Russia. At the…
Ghana’s lawmakers have approved a plan to open an investigation into the use of $1.5 billion (£1.2 billion) of Covid-19 funds in the country. It follows alleged discrepancies in receipts and payments presented to the parliament by Finance Minister Ken Ofori-Atta. Opposition MPs said the minister had failed to give a convincing explanation when he…
The final part of a mammoth report into alleged corruption in South Africa under the former president, Jacob Zuma, has been handed to his successor Cyril Ramaphosa. The report by Judge Raymond Zondo is more than 5,000 pages long. It paints a picture of a country whose coffers were looted by its former president and…
The British prime minister, Boris Johnson, has accused critics of his government’s policy to send asylum seekers to Rwanda as having a condescending attitude towards the country. He made the comments before embarking for Kigali, where he’s due to attend a meeting of the Commonwealth’s heads of government. Mr Johnson said his trip was an…
As the UK presses on with its plan to send asylum seekers to Rwanda, the BBC has heard evidence that, as recently as 2017, refugees despatched there by Israel were rapidly deported and are now in Europe. Bahabelom Mengesha, a 36-year-old Eritrean man, knows what it’s like to be sent to Rwanda by another country.…