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    Namibia’s first elected president Sam Nujoma dies aged 95

    Sam Nujoma, the activist and guerrilla leader who became Namibia’s first democratically elected president after it won its independence from apartheid South Africa, died aged 95 on Saturday, the Namibian Presidency said on Sunday. Nujoma rose to head the thinly populated southern African country on March 21, 1990 and was formally recognised as “Founding Father of the Namibian Nation” through…

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    Trump rules out deporting Prince Harry: ‘He’s got enough problems with his wife’

    Prince Harry can breathe freely in Montecito, because President Donald Trump has ruled out deporting the self-exiled British royal. Harry’s immigration status is the subject of litigation in Washington, D.C., with the Heritage Foundation alleging that he may have concealed past illegal drug use that should have disqualified him from obtaining a U.S. visa. But the president told The New…

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    China lashes out at US ‘coercion’ as Panama declines to renew agreement

    China on Friday lashed out at what it called U.S. “coercion” after Panama declined to renew a key infrastructure agreement with Beijing following Washington’s threat to take back the Panama Canal. Foreign Ministry spokesperson Lin Jian said at a briefing that China “firmly opposes the U.S. smearing and undermining the Belt and Road cooperation through means of pressure and coercion.”…

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    US should support World Bank and IMF – Bank of England boss

    The Governor of the Bank of England has urged continued US support for two major global economic institutions. Andrew Bailey told the BBC he was “following extremely closely” whether the Trump administration will change its support for the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and the World Bank. Sources in Washington said the two institutions were caught by a White House executive…

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    Malawi President orders troops to withdraw from DR Congo

    Malawi’s President Lazarus Chakwera has ordered the military to begin preparing to withdraw from their peacekeeping mission in the volatile eastern Democratic Republic of Congo. The Malawian troops are part of the Southern African regional bloc’s military mission (SAMIDRC) deployed to DR Congo to help tackle armed groups. At least 20 peacekeepers, including 14 South Africans and three Malawians, were…

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    Tshisekedi, Kagame to attend Tanzania summit for ceasefire in DRC

    Tina Salama, the spokesperson for the Democratic Republic of Congo’s President Felix Tshisekedi reiterated that the Central African leader will participate in a joint summit of Eastern and Southern African leaders on February 7-8 in Tanzania. The summit is focused on discussing the conflict in DRC’s eastern region where M23 rebels continue to gain territory and have seized control of…

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    Badenoch proposes tougher British citizenship rules

    Conservative leader Kemi Badenoch has proposed extending the time required for immigrants to apply for British citizenship from the current six years to 15 years. In one of her first major policy announcements since becoming leader, Badenoch also suggested that indefinite leave to remain (ILR) should not be granted to individuals with criminal records or those who have claimed benefits…

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    Another Judge blocks Trump’s attempt to abolish birthright citizenship

    A federal judge in Maryland has issued a nationwide preliminary injunction against President Donald Trump’s executive order aimed at ending birthright citizenship. U.S. District Judge Deborah Boardman heard arguments Wednesday over a request by five pregnant undocumented women to block Trump’s Day-1 executive order seeking to redefine the meaning of the 14th Amendment to exclude the children of undocumented immigrants…

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    Argentina to withdraw from WHO after Trump exit, citing ‘deep differences’

    Argentina will pull out of the World Health Organization (WHO), a presidential spokesperson said on Wednesday, following President Donald Trump’s executive order last month to pull the United States out of the global health group. Trump, who Argentina’s libertarian President Javier Milei considers a close ally, moved to exit the organization on his first day in office on January 20.…

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    Trump’s Gaza plan will be seen as flying in face of international law

    When US President Donald Trump began speaking 10 days ago of Gaza as a demolition site, calling to “clean out that whole thing,” it wasn’t clear how far these were off-the-cuff remarks. But in the lead-up to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s visit, in his Oval Office comments before the meeting, and in the press conference itself, it’s now clear…

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