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*Americans Rejected Harris Because Of Her Lies -White House Fires Back *Why Big Business Leaders,Others Are Kneeling Before 'Tyrant' Trump -Harris Reveals *Says She'll Run For President Again Immediate past US Vice-President (VP) and Democratic Party presidential candidate in the last election, Kamala Harris, said she is not done with politics and strongly suggested that she is considering another bid for President in a new interview. In an interview scheduled to air on the BBC on Sunday morning, Harris said that she would “possibly” be the next President, making the clearest suggestion to date that she will make another run…

*'If We Join Boko Haram, Blood Will Flow' *Electoral Commission Set To Announce 92-year-old Re-elected For 8th Term/ 7 Years At least two persons have been killed and dozens of protesters arrested in Cameroon as the government cracks down on dissent before the announcement of final results in this month’s presidential elections. Local media reports, citing preliminary data from the electoral commission (Elecam), suggest that victory for the 92-year-old incumbent, Paul Biya, is all but certain. That prospect has provoked anger and disbelief among his opponents, leading to unrest across several regions. Biya, who has been in power since 1982…

*57 Rescued, Five Arrested The Criminal Investigation Department (CID) of Ghana Police Service has arrested five suspects and rescued 57 Nigerians from a human trafficking and cybercrime syndicate operating at Adom Estates, Community 25, in the West African country. The operation, which took place last Wednesday, 22 October, was led by the CID’s Operations Unit following intelligence gathered on the group’s activities. The suspects have been named by the police as Joel Nosa, Collins Rotimi, Shadrack Lulu, Austin Amahuaro, and John Uloko. They are alleged to have operated a network that lured young Nigerians to Ghana under false promises of…

*Will Be In Solitary Confinement Former French President Nicolas Sarkozy has arrived at La Santé prison in Paris today , 21 October, to start a five-year prison term, Reuters reports. Sarkozy, who was the conservative President of France between 2007 and 2012, was handed a five-year jail term in September for criminal conspiracy over a plan for late Libyan dictator Muammar Gaddafi to fund his electoral campaign. Sarkozy’s lawyer Christophe Ingrain said the ex-president will remain in solitary confinement in prison for at least three weeks to a month, after confirming a request had been immediately filed for his release,…

*America Hates Authoritarianism, They Say Millions are expected to show out for protests today at more than 2,500 locations across America, from small towns to large cities, to speak against the Trump administration. No Kings, the coalition behind a mass demonstration last June, is again calling people to the streets to send the simple message that Donald Trump is not a king, pushing back against what they see as increasing authoritarianism in the world's most admired and functional democracy. Several US cities now have a militarised presence on the ground, most against the will of local leaders. Trump has promised…

*How Youths Toppled Madagascar's President *'Ousting, Lesson To Some African Leaders' As the sun set on Place du 13 Mai in Madagascar’s capital, Antananarivo, thousands of people danced, waved and cheered to pulsating rap and reggae beats and rousing speeches. When young people started protesting on 25 September, first against water and power cuts, then demanding a complete overhaul of the political system, military police stopped them from reaching the square. The site has been a symbol of democracy and the focal point of anti-government protests on the Indian Ocean island since 40 student demonstrators were killed there by security…

*Ex-wife Is Daughter Of Former President The Supreme Court has struck down a South Korean lower court's order for billionaire Chey Tae-won to pay his ex-wife a 1.38tn won ($1bn; £788m) settlement, in a case dubbed by local media as the 'divorce of the century'. Citing a miscalculation that increased the value of the couple's assets, it has ordered the case to be reviewed. The case has gripped South Korea as Mr Tae-won heads the powerful SK Group conglomerate while his ex-wife, Roh So-young, is the daughter of a former president. The marriage unravelled in 2015 after Tae-won admitted to…

*Parliament Impeaches Runaway President An elite military unit said it had taken power in Madagascar today, 14 October, after the country’s parliament impeached President Andry Rajoelina after weeks of anti-government protests. Rajoelina, who said on Monday in a Facebook live video that he had gone into hiding after attempts to kill him, had refused demands to step down, but the demonstrators won the backing of the influential Capsat military unit at the weekend. On Tuesday, the Presidency posted a statement saying there had been an “attempted coup d’état”. It continued: “The President of the republic remains fully in office and…

*But Govt Warns Against Such Declaration *Trouble Looms Cameroun opposition leader, Issa Tchiroma Bakary, has declared himself winner of the 12 October presidential election and called on the incumbent, Paul Biya, to accept the end of his 43-year rule. “Our victory is clear, it must be respected,” Bakary,more popularly known as Tchiroma, said in a video statement on Facebook with the national flag in the background, before directly addressing 92-year-old Biya: “We call on the regime in power to show greatness and to honour the truth of the ballot box with a long-awaited gesture: that phone call of congratulations, which…

Madagascar’s President, Andry Rajoelina, said he had to flee the country in fear for his life after a military rebellion but did not announce his resignation in a speech broadcast on social media late on Monday from an undisclosed location. The 51-year-old has faced weeks of Gen Z-led anti-government protests, which reached a pivotal point on Saturday when an elite military unit joined the protests and called for the President and other Ministers to step down. That prompted Rajoelina to say that an illegal attempt to seize power was under way in the Indian Ocean island and to leave the…