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Fake US embassy in Ghana shut down after 10 years issuing visas Ghanaian and Turkish crime rings ‘paid corrupt officials to look the other way’ to illegally obtain authentic documents The exterior of the fake embassy in Accra, Ghana. Photograph: US Department of State Reuters in Accra Authorities in Ghana …

Zimbabwe diasporans endorse President Robert Mugabe for 2018 polls December 3, 2016 Shingirai Huni President Mugabe Political Editor Zanu-pf’s largest external district, zanu-pf United Kingdom and Europe, has endorsed President Mugabe as the party’s sole candidate for the 2018 presidential elections. The district, which is seeking to be recognised as …

Gambia elections: President-elect Adama Barrow’s life story By Hugo WilliamsBBC News Image copyrightAFP Adama Barrow, a successful property developer who has never held public office, has defied the odds to score a shock victory in The Gambia’s elections. His victory in the small West African nation’s presidential poll is arguably …

HARARE, Dec. 2 (Xinhua) — At least 1.1 million Zimbabweans in urban areas will require food aid between now and the next harvest in March 2017 following a devastating El-Nino induced drought this year, an official said Friday. Already, 4.1 million Zimbabweans in rural areas are food insecure, bringing to …

The leader of South Africa’s left-wing opposition, Julius Malema, has called upon Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe to relinquish power. Malema, the head of the Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF)—South Africa’s third-biggest parliamentary party—made the comments at a party memorial service on Thursday for deceased Cuban leader Fidel Castro in the Soweto …

Our Foreign Staff 2 DECEMBER 2016 • 12:06PM Aformer Argos security guard from North London is set to become the president of Gambia in an unprecedented upset for president Yahya Jammeh who had pledged to rule for a billion years.   President Jammeh, who has ruled the tiny West African nation for 22 years since he staged …

Gambia’s Jammeh loses election after 22-year rule Banjul (DPA) — Gambian opposition candidate Adama Barrow has won presidential polls with 263,515 votes, followed by President Yahya Jammeh with 212,009 votes, the electoral commission says. Mama Kandeh, the third candidate in the running, came third with 102,969 votes. “What we see …

Reports: Robert Mugabe Was Born in Malawi and Zimbabwe Citizens Want Him Deported Right away Latest reports claim that the 92 year old leader of independent Zimbabwe, Robert Gabriel Mugabe was not born in Zimbabwe but born in Malawi in 1924. Robert Gabriel Mugabe was born to a Malawian father, …

Colorado University professor and a pediatric anesthesiologist who works at Denver Health Medical Center, Michelle Herren, is claiming she is not racist, after making racist comments about First Lady Michelle Obama. . On Facebook, Herren had posted a picture of Michelle Obama yelling, and added her own caption: “Doesn’t seem …

Nobel prize winner Wole Soyinka throws away green card after Donald Trump win Celebrated playwright previously said he would ‘pack his bags’ and leave the US if real estate mogul won the election Wole Soyinka Getty The Nobel-prize winning author Wole Soyinka has thrown away his green card in protest …