The University of Virginia’s president, James Ryan, resigned today under pressure from the Trump administration. In a statement, Ryan explained he couldn’t fight for his job at the expense of federal funding. James E. Ryan convened a meeting with his senior leadership on Friday and announced that he would be stepping down, according to a...
Issa Tchiroma Bakary – a prominent minister and long-time ally of President Paul Biya – has quit Cameroon’s government, in the hope of ending 92-year-old Biya’s four-decade grip on power in upcoming elections. Just four months before the central African nation goes to the polls, Tchiroma said the Biya administration he belonged to had “broken”...
Jake Horton & Lucy Gilder BBC Verify BBC Since US President Donald Trump ordered strikes on several nuclear facilities in Iran over the weekend, Democrats as well as lawmakers from his own party have questioned his legal authority to do so. Republican Congressman Thomas Massie said on X that the strikes were “not Constitutional”, and...
Teklemariam Bekit Editor, BBC Tigrinya AFP via Getty Images For many Eritreans, the hopes of the early days of the presidency of Isaias (left in 1994) have been dashed 30 years later Once hailed as part of a new generation of reformist African leaders, Eritrea’s president, who recently marked 32 years in power, has long...
Yesterday I wrote about an effort by Rep. Thomas Massie, a Republican from Kentucky, to pressure President Trump to seek authorization from congress before deciding on any strike against Iran. Rep. Massie’s effort was immediately joined by a group of Democrats including most of the Squad (AOC, Rashida Tlaib, Summer Lee, Ilhan Omar and Greg...
Uganda’s President Yoweri Museveni has signed into law an amendment that will allow, once again, civilians to be tried in a military court under certain circumstances. A previous law permitting such trials was ruled unconstitutional by the Supreme Court in January. Before that ruling, civilians could be taken to a military tribunal if they had...
It was 11 days ago that President Trump and Elon Musk had a very public falling out over the Big Beautiful Bill. Things got pretty ugly before eventually calming down. And since then Musk has said he regrets some of his posts on X and Trump seems to be over it, at least publicly. There’s...
Bernd Debusmann, John Sudworth and Kayla Epstein Reporting from Washington, Los Angeles and New York Getty Images A protest outside the Michigan Capitol in Lansing, Michigan Protests against President Donald Trump have taken place in towns and cities across the US, organised by a group called “No Kings”. The demonstrations were held to counter a...
Nigeria’s president has pardoned the late activist Ken Saro-Wiwa, 30 years after his execution sparked global outrage. Along with eight other campaigners, Mr Saro-Wiwa was convicted of murder, then hanged in 1995 by the then-military regime. Many believed the activists were being punished for leading protests against the operations of oil multinationals, particularly Shell, in...
Is this a TACO moment, or Trump going somewhere he always intended? TACO, as you know, is the Democratic Party acronym for “Trump Always Chickens Out,” implying that all Trump’s zigs and zags on things like tariffs are evidence that their Nazi authoritarian self-proclaimed king is actually a paper tiger who talks big and chickens...
There’s a newish meme being used to justify the anti-ICE riots and illegal immigration–the illegal immigrants have a right to be in the United States because the Southwest was stolen and really belongs to Mexico. The problem isn’t illegal immigrants; it’s American citizens who wrongly believe they have the right to live here without being...
Yesterday, Ruy Teixeira had a story up at the Free Press titled “The LA Riots Are a Trump Ad.” He’s not the only person who has made this point but as usual he does it very well. The chaos in Southern California could have been designed in a lab to exploit Democratic weak spots, combining...
Brandon Drenon BBC News, Washington DC Watch: Clashes continue in LA over immigration raids US President Donald Trump says he has deployed 2,000 National Guard troops to Los Angeles to uphold “very strong law and order”, after violent protests against immigration raids erupted in America’s second-biggest city. His decision to summon the National Guard overruled...
Unions and allies in California and across the United States on Saturday are demanding the immediate release of David Huerta, president of SEIU California and SEIU-United Service Workers West, after the highly regarded labor leader was injured and then arrested while witnessing a raid by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents on Friday. “SEIU California...
Zambia’s former President Edgar Lungu has died at the age of 68, his party has said in a statement. He had “been receiving specialized treatment in South Africa” for an undisclosed illness, the Patriotic Front said confirming the news. Lungu led Zambia for six years from 2015, losing the election to the current President Hakainde...