Category: Africa and the rest of the world

New Prime Minister of the United Kingdom Rishi Sunak addresses the media at Downing Street as he wins the Conservative Party leadership race, London, 25 October 2022. (Photo by Alexander Mak/NurPhoto) (Photo by Alexander Mak / NurPhoto / NurPhoto via AFP) Truss departs with a rare record of serving two monarchs in 44 days Former […]

Rishi Sunak on Tuesday became Britain’s third prime minister this year and the first person of colour to hold the top job, receiving a flurry of welcome messages from around the world. Here is a selection of top reactions from global leaders: – Nigeria welcomes ‘milestones’ – Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari said that with Sunak […]

Outgoing British Prime Minister, Liz Truss, has promised to support her incoming successor, Rishi Sunak, after he won the contest to become the leader of Britain’s Conservatives. Sunak, 42, became PM after his rival, Penny Mordaunt, failed to get enough backing from MPs in the Tory leadership contest. Taking to Twitter, Truss congratulated the first […]

Britain’s King Charles III on Tuesday appointed new Conservative leader Rishi Sunak as the second prime minister of his reign, shortly after accepting the resignation of Liz Truss. Rishi Sunak on Tuesday became Britain’s third prime minister this year and the first person of colour to lead the former imperial power, vowing to mend its […]

Rishi Sunak was announced the leader of Britain’s Conservative Party Monday afternoon following Liz Truss’s resignation on Thursday after a turbulent 44-day tenure in office as British Prime Minister. The 1922 Committee chairman, Sir Graham Brady, announced that Sunak was the only nomination received by the committee after Penny Mordaunt withdrew from the Tory’s leadership […]

After spending six weeks in office, one of the shortest spells in British political history, British Prime Minister Liz Truss has announced she is resigning from her post. This followed her admission that she could not “deliver the mandate on which I was elected.” She is standing down as Conservative leader immediately but will remain prime […]

By Agency Report In this file photo taken on October 2, 2022 Britain’s Chancellor of the Exchequer Kwasi Kwarteng (L) and Britain’s Prime Minister Liz Truss (R) attend the opening day of the annual Conservative Party Conference in Birmingham, central England. – Kwarteng has been sacked, the BBC and Sky News reported on October 14, […]

Photo by STR / AFP Myanmar’s junta sentenced ousted leader Aung San Suu Kyi on Wednesday to another six years in prison for corruption, a source with knowledge of the case said, taking the Nobel laureate’s total jail time to 26 years. Suu Kyi, 77, has been detained since the generals toppled her government in […]

Just a week ago, 34-year-old Ibrahim Traore was an unknown, even in his native Burkina Faso. But in the space of a weekend, he catapulted himself from army captain to the world’s youngest leader – an ascent that has stoked hopes but also fears for a poor and chronically troubled country. Traore, at the head […]

Wads of British Pound Sterling banknotes are stacked in piles at the Money Service Austria company’s headquarters in Vienna, Austria, November 16, 2017. Reuters/Leonhard Foeger The pound hit a record low against the dollar Monday on surging fears about the UK economy after the government unveiled a huge tax-cutting budget. The selloff came as equity […]