By Barbara Plett Usher, BBC Africa correspondent, Nairobi In Kenya, the youth protests against planned tax increases have served as a wake-up call for the Church. They’ve shaken up a powerful institution, in a country where more than 80% of the population, including the president, are Christian. The young demonstrators accused the Church of siding with the…
By Sarah Smith, North America Editor The extraordinary images of a defiant Donald Trump pumping his fist in the air, with blood on his face, being rushed off the stage by the Secret Service are not just history-making – they may well alter the course of November’s presidential election. This shocking act of political violence will inevitably…
President William Ruto should constitute a new cabinet without further delay, after he dissolved it on Thursday.. Following weeks of protests against his administration, the President grabbed the accountability bull by the horns and sacked all his Cabinet Secretaries, save for one, Prime Cabinet Secretary and Foreign Affairs CS Musalia Mudavadi. In a 12-minute speech, the…
By Matt Murphy, BBC NewsShare Five people linked to one of Ecuador’s biggest criminal gangs have been jailed for the murder of presidential candidate Fernando Villavicencio last year. Mr Villavicencio, a member of the country’s national assembly and an ex-journalist, was shot dead as he left a campaign rally in the capital, Quito, last August. Carlos Angulo,…
By Christal Hayes, Holly Honderich & Rachel Looker, BBC News Knives are out for Joe Biden after his poorly received performance in the first 2024 presidential debate against Donald Trump. With November’s election bearing down, a growing number of Democrats are calling on the president to step aside due to concerns about his mental fitness. Around a dozen…
Kenya’s under-fire President William Ruto has dismissed with “immediate effect” all his ministers and the attorney-general, following the recent deadly protests that led to the withdrawal of an unpopular tax bill. The president said the move came after “reflection, listening to Kenyans, and after holistic appraisal of my cabinet”. He has said he will now…
The Mountain Journal The rift between the deputy president Rigathi Gachagua and Mathira MP Erick Wamumbi has continued to widen, with claims of a plot to exit from the government. Wamumbi said his differences with Rigathi are based on opinions with no personal interest based on a move to walk out from the government to…
By Anthony Zurcher, @awzurcher, North America correspondent The most devastating argument against Joe Biden’s re-election bid may have come not from a politician or a pundit, but from a film star. But George Clooney, with his stinging New York Times opinion piece, isn’t the only one speaking out. A growing chorus from Democrats is sinking the president’s hopes…
By AFP | 10h ago Donald Trump unleashed a torrent of invective against President Joe Biden on Tuesday, mercilessly assailing the embattled Democrat as he faces down calls to end his reelection bid after a disastrous debate performance. Trump’s speech in Florida was his first public appearance since the clamor for Biden’s withdrawal began gaining…
By Wedaeli Chibelushi, BBC News Rwanda has said it is not required to refund the UK after a multi-million pound migrant deal between the two countries was scrapped. New UK Prime Minister and Labour Party leader Keir Starmer announced at the weekend that the plan to deport some asylum seekers to Rwanda was “dead and buried”. The…
