PRIME MINISTER

The United Kingdom parliamentary election has come and gone. It has produced a new Prime Minister in less than twenty-four hours of voting. Sir Keir Starmer, the leader of the labour party for just five years, is the UK's new prime…

Antony Blinken, the U.S. Secretary of State, has held a meeting at the State Department with Haitian Prime Minister Garry Conille and Foreign Minister Dominique Dupuy to emphasize the significance of U.S. backing for Haiti's recently…

Senegal inaugurated Africa's youngest elected leader as president, as the 44-year-old and previously little-known Bassirou Diomaye Faye completed a dramatic ascent from prison to palace within weeks. Last month's election tested Senegal’s…

Haiti faces escalating turmoil as criminal gangs tighten their grip on Port-au-Prince, controlling up to 90% of the capital. In the midst of this chaos, Prime Minister Ariel Henry has resigned, signalling a significant development in the…

Diamond tycoon and political maverick Sam Matekane has taken the oath as Lesotho's new prime minister at a packed soccer stadium in the southern African kingdom's capital of Maseru. The 64-year-old political novice, who arrived at his…

Pakistan’s parliament on Monday, elected Shehbaz Sharif as the country’s new prime minister after 174 votes were cast in the 342-seat assembly. Acting speaker Sardar Ayaz Sadiq sai, “Mian Muhammad Shehbaz Sharif has been elected as prime…

Japanese Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga on urged people to refrain from travelling as COVID-19 cases spiked to new records in Tokyo and nationwide, heaping pressure on the medical system days before the start of the Paralympics. His…

Congolese President Félix Tshisekedi has appointed Jean-Michel Sama Lukonde as Prime Minister on Monday. Mr. Sama Lukonde Kyenge, 43, was until Monday the General Director of the state mining company Gécamines (General Quarries and…

Ethiopia’s Prime Minister, Abiy Ahmed met with political parties on Wednesday to plan next year’s election thereby shifting attention away from a month-long war in the north that was sliding into a messy guerrilla conflict. Abiy Ahmed’s…