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Sacked UK official says Downing Street pressured inquiry to clear Mandelson

Pressure from Downing Street to install Peter Mandelson in Washington was relentless, with security concerns seemingly treated as an obstacle to be pushed aside, a dismissed senior official told MPs today. Olly Robbins, until last week the most senior civil servant at the Foreign Office, said Keir Starmer's team showed a "dismissive attitude" toward the security vetting process for the government's choice of ambassador to the United States. He appeared before a parliamentary watchdog committee as the prime minister continued…

Ghana’s Legislators Pressured to Enact Anti-Witchcraft Accusation Legislation Immediately

The Unseen Struggle: Ghana's Witchcraft Accusation Survivors Make Their Voices Heard In the heart of Ghana, a silent crisis unfolds—one that reveals the ugly underbelly of superstition and stigma, where a simple accusation can dismantle lives. Survivors of witchcraft accusations have stepped into the spotlight, calling on Parliament to urgently pass the Anti-Witchcraft Accusation Bill. Their plea is not just for protection but for a restoration of dignity that has been stripped away through discrimination and violence. A…

“We have been confused into discussion with Kenya,” Somalia FM stated

MOGADISHU, Somalia - AU and the intergovernmental authority for building may additionally have confused Somalia to hang a discussion with Kenya on diplomatic spitting, Mogadishu has prompt, an afternoon after a summit in Djibouti that desirous about the duel between the 2 international locations. Tensions have constructed up alongside the border between Kenya and Somalia in Mandera and the encircling places close to Gedo with Somalia, which is expounded to have uncovered extra infantrymen to "give protection to our…