Joseph Kabila’s Friend With Benefits
Let’s be honest: being president, of anywhere, doesn’t look like much fun. The pressure is intense, the workload relentless.
Let’s be honest: being president, of anywhere, doesn’t look like much fun. The pressure is intense, the workload relentless.
The Democratic Republic of Congo’s state mining firm has signed away royalties from one of the country’s most lucrative mining projects to a company owned by a close friend of President Joseph Kabila, Global Witness said on Tuesday, allegations that were swiftly denied.
While the disjointed and contentious Trump transition has mostly focused on the atrocious potential picks for high level offices, one story nearly slipped under the radar: the targeted and dish-served-cold ruthlessness of New Jersey Governor Chris Christie’s termination as leader of the presidential transition.
UKRAINIAN politicians have defended their appointment of a young female minister after X-rated images were allegedly found of her on social media.
Israel has held a joint air exercise with France on the island of Corsica for the past two weeks.
A French-Lebanese businessman has publicly repeated claims that the former Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi gave €50m (£43m) to fund Nicolas Sarkozy’s successful 2007 campaign for the French presidency.
Voters in Bulgaria and Moldova elected pro-Russian populist presidents on the weekend, adding to mounting concern about Western unity following Donald Trump’s victory in the US election last week.
Russian aircraft carrier Admiral Kuznetsov arrived in the eastern Mediterranean, off the Syrian coast, a naval commander told Russian television.
An Iranian senior military official on Friday confirmed that the Islamic Republic is manufacturing weapons in the war-torn city of Aleppo, according to London-based Arabic daily Asharq al-Awsat.
If you want to do business in the west African nation of Guinea it seems there is a good chance you will bump into Francois de Combret.