Diaspora

According to the US State Department, in 2021-2024, Ukraine was the Agency’s top priority with $30.6 billion, or 21% of the total amount of its “international aid,” going to Ukraine. According to WikiLeaks, more than 6,200 journalists from 707 media outlets and 279 non-governmental organisations were on USAID’s payroll. USAID engaged in propaganda activities in […] More

When the same spotlight that the Western media have been putting on African nations is turned back on them by the Trump media machine, what we are seeing is that they are every bit as corrupt or even more so than the African countries that they have been unfairly projecting as the fave of corruption. […] More

Mahamoud Ali Youssouf of Djibouti has been elected Chairperson of the AU Commission after five rounds of voting, defeating Odinga Odinga of Kenya in the 4th round. Youssouf takes over from Moussa Faki Mahamat of Chad, who spent two terms of 4 years each.Youssouf’s emergence stunned Odinga, who observers expected to win. However, Odinga spent […] More

East African runners from Kenya and Ethiopia have again dominated the annual Access Bank Lagos City Marathon.The 2025 edition of the event, a 42km race, commenced at Western Avenue, in front of the National Stadium Surulere, and finished in front of Eko Atlantic City, Victoria Island on Saturday.It saw Kenya’s Edwin Kibet emerge as the […] More

The United States Government on Friday sacked no fewer than 9,500 workers who handled everything from managing federal lands to caring for military veterans. This followed the campaign by President Donald Trump and his adviser Elon Musk to radically cut back the US bureaucracy. It was gathered that workers at the departments of Interior, Energy, […] More

The Palestinian group Hamas have released three more Israeli captives in the Gaza Strip as the sixth such exchange pushed ahead following days of tense negotiations that threatened to undo the precarious ceasefire. According to reports, the three captives – identified as American-Israeli Sagui Dekel-Chen, Russian-Israeli Alexander Sasha Trufanov, and Argentinian-Israeli Yair Horn – were […] More

The Trump administration has proposed to Ukraine that the United States receive a 50% stake in the nation’s rare earth minerals and has indicated a willingness to deploy American troops to safeguard them if a deal with Russia is reached to conclude the war, according to four U.S. officials. Instead of providing direct payment for […] More

Human rights lawyer Malcolm Omirhobo has taken a swipe at UK politician Kemi Badenoch, asserting that being “talkative, loquacious, garrulous, or voluble” will not change her racial identity. In a strongly worded statement, Omirhobo emphasized that Badenoch remains a Yoruba woman from Nigeria, regardless of her political affiliations or rhetoric. According to his statement via […] More

United States President, Donald Trump, has dismissed deporting Prince Harry from the United States, despite ongoing litigation questioning the Duke of Sussex’s immigration status. Trump disclosed this in an interview with The New York Post on Friday, saying he does not want to take action against Harry. “I don’t want to do that. I’ll leave […] More

Sam Nujoma, the activist and guerrilla leader who became Namibia’s first democratically elected president after leading the country to independence from apartheid South Africa, passed away at the age of 95 on Saturday, the Namibian Presidency said on Sunday. Nujoma rose to head the thinly populated southern African country on March 21, 1990, and was […] More

The New York Post hasn’t provided any quotes from the reported phone call in its interview with the US president US President Donald Trump has claimed to have discussed the Ukraine conflict with his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin on the phone, according to the New York Post. The Kremlin has yet to comment on the […] More