A US jury has ruled that French bank BNP Paribas aided the government of former Sudanese president Omar al-Bashir in committing crimes against humanity, including genocide, by providing financial services that helped it evade sanctions, Reuters reported. A federal jury in Manhattan ordered BNP Paribas to pay a totalContinue Reading
Ghana’s Foreign Minister Samuel Okudzeto Ablakwa delivers a speech at the 2025 MOBEX Africa Tech Expo and Innovation Conference in Accra, Minister Samuel Okudzeto Ablakwa on Tuesday announced that the country will roll out electronic visas by 2026 to simplify the visa process and promote trade, diplomacy, and investment.Continue Reading
As China’s CR450 bullet train sets a new world record in speed, its designer told the Global Times that the train can brake from 400 kilometers per hour to a complete stop within just 6,500 meters — the same as trains operating at 350 km/h — achieving higher operationalContinue Reading
France’s ex-president Nicolas Sarkozy left home on Tuesday to head to jail after being found guilty of seeking to acquire Libyan funding for his 2007 presidential run, AFP reporters saw. He walked out of his home hand-in-hand with his singer wife, Carla Bruni, and left in a car escorted byContinue Reading
By Lawal Sale There is no gainsaying the fact that the Taiwan question has remained a subject of debate among skeptics for a long time. What is, nonetheless, obvious on the world stage is that Taiwan is not recognized as a sovereign state with a permanent seat at theContinue Reading
By our Correspondent The Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC) has said inadequate capacity across the networks to support heavy usage in high-density urban areas is the reason for the poor quality of telecom service being experienced in Lagos, Abuja and other major cities in Nigeria The Commission stated this in aContinue Reading
The great economic achievements during the 14th Five-Year Plan period (2021-25) have secured China a solid foundation for the coming journey of the 15th Five-Year Plan period (2026-30), the country’s National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) said on Monday. The remarks were made by a spokesperson of NBS when releasingContinue Reading
By Lawal Sale Chinese leaders will gather for a major Party meeting from Monday to Thursday to discuss the country’s next five-year plan, a policy roadmap shaping key areas of national development, with ripple effects far beyond China’s borders. The meeting, known as a plenary session of the 20th CentralContinue Reading
Xi Jinping, general secretary of the Communist Party of China Central Committee, on Sunday congratulated Cheng Li-wun on being elected chairperson of the Chinese Kuomintang (KMT) party. Cheng won the election in Taiwan on Saturday with 50.15 percent of the vote. Xi expressed his expectations for the two political partiesContinue Reading
Western elites, through their intelligence agencies, are attempting to obstruct the formation of a new architecture of international relations and are creating zones of instability around the world, including in Africa. This was stated by Director of Russia’s Federal Security Service (FSB) Alexander Bortnikov at a meeting of theContinue Reading
