The United States has imposed sanctions on nine people it accuses of enabling Hezbollah to “undermine Lebanon’s sovereignty”, the latest US effort to destroy the group’s financial networks around the world. In a statement on Thursday, the US Department of the Treasury said the individuals were designated “for obstructing the peace process in Lebanon and impeding…
U.K. Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer attends an opening session on the first day of the Labour Party conference at ACC Liverpool on September 28, 2025 in Liverpool, England. Dan Kitwood | Getty Images News | Getty Images U.K. Prime Minister Keir Starmer’s leadership is hanging by a thread as a growing number of his…
Deputy Speaker Thomas Tayebwa has led African legislators in condemning what they described as growing interference by the European Parliament in the internal affairs of African countries, urging members of the Organization of African, Caribbean and Pacific States (OACPS) to defend the continent’s sovereignty. Speaking during a meeting of the Eastern Africa Regional Parliamentary Group…
Latvian MPs have voted to withdraw from an international accord aimed at protecting women from violence, including domestic abuse, after a long and intense debate in parliament. Several thousand people protested against the vote this week in Riga. It is now up to President Edgars Rinkevics to decide whether to approve the law or not….
Johannesburg — Four Namibian parliamentarians were on Monday sworn in as members of the Pan-African Parliament (PAP), underpining Namibia’s commitment to continental unity and democratic governance. The Namibian members Deputy Speaker of the National Assembly Phillipus Katamelo; Uahekua Herunga; Anseline Beukes and Rodney Cloete took their oath during the opening ceremony of the Fifth Ordinary…
African legislators attending the 5th Ordinary Session of the Pan-African Parliament (PAP) in Midrand, South Africa, have made an unprecedented joint demand for reparations from former colonial powers, citing centuries of injustice, theft, and oppression. Gambian MP Sulayman Saho likened the trans-Atlantic slave trade to a “holocaust,” saying it claimed millions of African lives and…
Tensions reached boiling point in a Wednesday meeting of parliament’s select committee on economic development & trade after Post Office business rescue practitioners Anoosh Rooplal and Juanita Damons requested that parts of their presentation on their plan to save the ailing state-owned company be held in private, away from the media. MPs across the political…
