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DEMOCRATIC Republic of Congo President Felix Tshisekedi is increasingly being viewed as his own man. He has succeeded in shaking off his predecessor and perceived puppeteer Joseph Kabila and even gone ahead to be elected chair of the African Union. The world in general, and Africa in particular, has garnered confidence in the “new” DRC under President Tshisekedi, after decades of being seen as a failed state. The president looks committed to reforms, cracking down on corruption and bringing relative peace to the troubled east, where dozens of militia groups operate. After he was elected i...

The police arrested three men in two separate anti-drug operations. The first arrest - that of a 23-year-old man from Ħamrun - took place in Qormi on Sunday.

Two arrested after drug raid on Birzebbugia house Man, 37, and woman, 41, both Hungarian nationals, have been arrested by the police’s Drugs Squad in a joint operation with the Rapid Intervention Unit 3 April 2021, 11:45am by Matthew Agius A 37-year-old man and a 41-year-old woman, both Hungarian nationals, have been arrested by the police’s Drugs Squad in a joint operation with the Rapid Intervention Unit. Police say the couple were captured in possession of an amount of drugs ready for trafficking. After an investigation spanning several days, during which the movements of the couple ...

Emile Nakhleh is a retired CIA Senior Intelligence Service Officer and founding director of the CIA’s Political Islam Strategic Analysis Program Office. Nakhleh is currently a Research Professor and Director of the Global and National Security Policy Institute at the University of New Mexico.   OPINION — In order to avoid a rupture of U.S.-Saudi … Continue reading "How will Saudi Pro-Reform Activists Respond to Biden’s Approach to MBS?"

Less than two weeks after the release of an unclassified US intelligence report on the 2018 killing of Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi, pressure continues to build in Washington for President Joe Biden to hold Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman (MBS) accountable. The widely anticipated report confirmed what many human rights groups, United Nations experts and US lawmakers had long argued: the crown prince approved the operation to “capture or kill” Khashoggi at the Saudi consulate in Istanbul. But the Biden administration has said it would not directly sanction or impose a travel ban...