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Gabon: new ruler lobbies for lifting of sanctions, wife of deposed leader charged with ‘money laundering’

Gabon’s post-coup ruler has visited The Congo to improve the relations between the two neighbors and lobby for the easing of his country’s international isolation after a group of military officers overthrew Ali Bongo Ondimba whose family had ruled Gabon since 1967. General Brice Oligui Nguema, who met with Congolese President Denis Sassou Nguesso on […]

Ghana emerges as key transit hub in U.S. deportation push

Ghana has joined a growing list of African nations cooperating with the United States in its controversial immigration enforcement policy, accepting 14 West African deportees recently removed from the U.S. President John Dramani Mahama confirmed that the arrivals — mostly Nigerians and one Gambian — landed in Accra and were swiftly assisted in returning to […]

Iran-France: Tehran opens up to French Accor group

Iran has allowed French Accor Hotels Group to start business in the Islamic country with the opening of two hotels near Tehran’s international airport. CEO of the group who made the announcement Monday said Accor would be the first Western hotel group to establish in Tehran following the historic Vienna Pact. The CEO of the […]