Burundi outgoing president Pierre Nkurunziza dies june 2020

Mauritania: Business tycoon Bouamatou returns home after prosecution scraped charges

Mohamed Ould Bouamatou, Mauritania’s most successful businessman, returned home from a decade-long exile, after corruption and fiscal fraud charges against him were dropped last month. The owner of GBM bank and the BSA group landed in capital Nouakchott Monday night onboard a private jet, Le360.ma reports. Bouamatou fled Mauritania in early 2010 after falling out […]

Burundi: President calls out corruption in state administration during ruling party’s rally

Burundi’s President Evariste Ndayishimiye slammed corruption within the government and state administration, during the congress of his party which has been in power since 2005. The CNDD-FDD party held the congress in the political capital of the central African country Gitega to announce the election of Cyriaque Nshimirimana as Deputy Secretary General of the party […]

OIC Calls for Recognizing East-Jerusalem as Occupied Capital of Palestine

Leaders from the 57-member countries of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation have called on the world community to recognize East-Jerusalem as the “Occupied Capital” of the future State of Palestine and condemned the US administration’s move to recognize Al-Quds as capital of Israel and to relocate the American embassy from Tel Aviv to the holy […]