The suspension of Ghana’s Chief Justice, Gertrude Torkornoo has sparked political controversy particularly from opposition MPs who accuse President John Mahama of trying to “pack the courts” with justices who are sympathetic to the governing party.
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Mayor of London Sadiq Khan has been knighted in the New Year’s Honours list, following a record-breaking third term election win.
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Australia’s parliament is the first to pass a law that will aim to do what many parents struggled with -curb children’s use of social media. The new law was drafted in response to what the Labour prime minister, Anthony Albanese, says is a “clear, causal link between the rise of social media and the harm [to] the mental health of young Australians.”
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Former Manchester City FC player, Mikheil Kavelashvili has been picked by the Georgia Dream Party as its presidential candidate following its controversial election victory that has sparked protests and led to the opposition parties’ boycott of the parliament.
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A Florida based cruise Villa Vie Residences has announced cruise packages to set sail around the world on the Villa Vie Odyssey for as many as four years.
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Liberia’s former justice minister and chief justice Gloria Maya Musu-Scott sentenced for life last year for the murder of her niece, has been acquitted and released after serving more than eight months in prison.
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The first African-born member of parliament in Germany says he will not stand in the next federal election in 2025 after 11 years in Bundestag.
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South Africa’s highest court ruled on Monday that ex-president Jacob Zuma, who stepped down in 2018 amid a swirl of corruption allegations, is ineligible to contest a National Assembly seat in the vote next week.
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Senegal and Africa’s youngest elected president on his inauguration on Tuesday has appointed his mentor Ousmane Sonko as the prime Minister in the new formed government.
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It was an unlikely climb to the top for an unlikely national figurehead. Bassirou Diomaye Faye was a tax inspector before he became his party’s secretary general and a trusted lieutenant of opposition leader, Ousmane Sonko.
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