By Mike Wendling & Grace Tsoi, BBC News An exiled Chinese billionaire has now been been found guilty of multiple charges, including fraud and money laundering. Here’s a look into how Guo Wengui, who built up a real estate empire in China, went on to run a billion dollar scam in the US. In early June 2020,…
KIGALI, RWANDA — Rwandan President Paul Kagame has won the country’s presidential election with 99% of the vote, according to preliminary election results released. Kagame had won 99% of the 79% of ballots counted so far, the country’s electoral body said. The president, who has been in power in various roles since 1994, won by…
By Bernd Debusmann Jr & Nadine Yousif, BBC News New Jersey Senator Bob Menendez has been found guilty on 16 counts tied to a scheme where he accepted bribes, including gold bars and a Mercedes-Benz, in exchange for helping foreign governments. A jury convicted Menendez of all charges after more than 12 hours of deliberation over three…
By Sam Francis, Political reporter, David Sam Francis • Henry Zeffman, Chief political correspondent, The deputy prime minister has dismissed comments by Donald Trump’s running mate for US vice president that UK under Labour might be the first “truly Islamist” country with nuclear weapons. JD Vance, the Ohio senator chosen as Mr Trump’s vice presidential candidate on Monday night, made the…
The Mountain Journal A television journalist became the latest victim of police brutality after she was shot and injured by police in Nakuru. Catherine Wanjeri was covering the generation z protests along the busy Kenyatta Avenue. The colleagues and public present said Wanjeri was shot by police when she was scampering for her safety, when…
Police were out in force in the centre of Kenya’s capital on Tuesday after calls for more demonstrations against the embattled government of President William Ruto. Activists led by young Gen-Z Kenyans launched peaceful rallies a month ago against deeply unpopular tax hikes but they descended into deadly violence last month, prompting Ruto to drop…
3 hours ago By Hayley Mortimer, BBC File on 4 An ex-police officer who claims to save children from human traffickers has faked stories to raise money for his charity, the BBC has discovered. Adam Whittington, founder of Project Rescue Children (PRC) says he has helped more than 700 children in countries including Uganda, Kenya and The…
By James Wakahiu A savings and credit cooperative society is grappling with bad and doubtful debts from its members and a past partnership with a tainted land buying company. Anchor Premier Sacco Limited directors say they are now owed Sh300 million by a former sister society, Urithi Housing Cooperative (UHCL). This is an estimated 98…
The Mountain Journal team Ford Foundation has denied sponsoring anarchy,violence and chaos in Kenya, as claimed by President William Ruto. “ We do not fund or sponsor the recent protest against the finance bill and have a strict non-partisan for all or grantmaking.
By Mike Wendling, BBC News Donald Trump has picked JD Vance as his running mate. “I’m a ‘never Trump’ guy. I never liked him.” “My god what an idiot.” “I find him reprehensible.” That was from JD Vance in interviews and on Twitter in 2016, when the publication of his memoir Hillbilly Elegy catapulted him to fame….
