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Tunisia PM elected leader of new party ahead of Nov. 2019 polls

Tunisia’s secular Tahya Tounes party, founded this year, elected Prime Minister Youssef Chahed as its president on Sunday, confirming expectations of his leadership months before parliamentary and presidential elections. The new party was formed in January after months of wrangling within

Trump to impose tariff of up to 25% on Mexico over migrant surge

United States President Donald Trump vowed to impose a 5% tariff on Mexican goods until that country stops immigrants from entering the US illegally – brandishing a weapon used against a widening group of countries and jeopardizing a new North American

Africa further embraces China’s Huawei as it battles Trump onslaught

The African Union (AU) has signed a memorandum of understanding with Huawei to strengthen their cooperation in information and communication technologies, the Chinese telecom giant announced on Friday. “The main objective of the MOU is to strengthen their partnership in the following 5

Muslims, Christians must help fight terrorists – Kenya president

Terrorists are criminals whose actions are not sanctioned by an religious groups and the fight against terrorism must he seen in that light according to Kenyan president Uhuru Kenyatta. The president on Thursday (May 30) made a historic visit to one

Eritrea, Nigeria, Benin: Outsiders from Africa free-trade zone, AfCFTA

A lot is being said and celebrated about the African Continental Free Trade Area, AfCFTA, in the wake of its maturity on Thursday (May 30). The African Union, AU, initiative aims to create a continent-wide market of 1.2 billion people worth

US-China trade war could trigger global financial crisis, ex-Chinese official says

China’s President Xi Jinping and U.S. President Donald Trump are likely to find it “difficult” to make major progress towards ending their countries’ trade war when they meet at a G20 summit in Japan in June, a former top Chinese official

US delegation headed by Kushner in Mideast to seek support for Trump’s peace plan

Senior White House adviser and President Donald Trump’s son-in-law Jared Kushner is leading a U.S. delegation on stops in Morocco, Jordan and Israel this week seeking support for as-yet unveiled Israeli-Palestinian peace plan and a late June workshop aimed at helping

Pope says willing to confront Trump over border wall, child separations

Pope Francis said he was willing to tell U.S. President Donald Trump in person that it is wrong to build border walls and appeared to warn him not to resume a policy of separating families. In a wide-ranging television interview with
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