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Senegal’s ousted PM Sonko elected parliament speaker in challenge to President Faye

Senegal’s ousted PM Sonko elected parliament speaker in challenge to President Faye

Published by Sam Flores

Senegal is mired in a deep political crisis after President Bassirou Diomaye Faye on Friday sacked the popular Ousmane Sonko and dissolved the government after months of tensions. Sonko’s election as parliament speaker comes a day after Faye named senior economist Ahmadou Al Aminou, former regional central bank official, as prime minister. Read moreSenegal’s President Faye names economist as prime minister after Sonko ouster Senegal is labouring under a huge debt burden amounting to 132 percent of GDP. When Faye and Sonko came to power in 2024, they accused former president Macky Sall’s government of hiding a part of the debt, leading to the suspension of a $1.8 billion IMF aid programme it had agreed in 2023. Faye essentially owes his position to Sonko, his one time mentor who would almost certainly have taken the top job had he not been barred from running in the last presidential election due to a defamation conviction. The two men have fallen out in recent months as Senegal battles public debt. Faye wants to discuss a new aid programme with …

Son of Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas elected to top Fatah body | Fatah News

Son of Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas elected to top Fatah body | Fatah News

Published by Sam Flores

Businessman Yasser Abbas, 64, secured a place on the central committee despite spending most of his time in Canada. Published On 17 May 202617 May 2026 The son of Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas has secured a seat on Fatah’s highest leadership body, as initial results emerged from the movement’s first Congress in the occupied West Bank in a decade. The three-day Eighth General Conference in Ramallah, which began on Thursday and finished on Sunday, came as Fatah faces existential challenges following Israel’s genocidal war on Gaza. Recommended Stories list of 3 itemsend of list Yasser Abbas, 64, a businessman who spends most of his time in Canada, joins the central committee after being appointed around five years ago as his father’s “special representative”. With several existing members retaining their seats, the Congress’s outcome was already being criticised. Marwan Barghouti, a popular Palestinian leader held in Israeli prison since 2002, retained his seat on the committee with the highest number of votes, according to figures seen by the AFP news agency. Jibril Rajoub was re-elected as …

Trans Green Party candidate with no British visa elected to Holyrood

Trans Green Party candidate with no British visa elected to Holyrood

Published by Sam Flores

A transgender Indian immigrant has become the first person to be elected to Holyrood without a permanent visa to stay in the UK. Q Manivannan, who identifies as non-binary, was elected as an MSP on the Edinburgh & Lothians East list for the pro-independence Scottish Greens. It was reported earlier this week that the former PhD student has appealed to colleagues for £2,089 of funding for a temporary graduate visa. This would give the anthropologist and poet a further three years to work and live in the UK, picking up the taxpayer-funded MSP salary of £77,711. Manivannan is said to have told colleagues this would help buy time to save up the £5,047 cost of applying for a global talent visa, the UK immigration category for promising individuals in specific sectors. The self-described “queer Tamil immigrant” was only able to stand in the election after SNP ministers loosened the rules over who could be a Holyrood candidate. Dr Q Manivannan (centre left) celebrates with other candidates elected to Holyrood – David Young/PA Wire Foreigners could …

Greens Secure First Ever Directly Elected Mayor As Party Eats Into Labour's London Strongholds

Greens Secure First Ever Directly Elected Mayor As Party Eats Into Labour's London Strongholds

Published by Sam Flores

Green Party Zoe Garbett as she is announced as the new Mayor for Hackney during the count for the Hackney council election on May 08, 2026 in Hackney, England.  The Green Party has just had its first ever mayor elected in one of Labour’s London stronghold seats. Zoe Garbett, who previously ran to be London mayor, has just been elected as the mayor of Hackney. In her victory speech, she said: “People have made it clear they are desperate for an alternative to this failing Labour government. “It’s not old politics parties versus new parties. This is about a system of fear versus a movement of hope.” She added: “Today we start a fightback. “In this election, over and over, people kept telling me that they felt let down. People kept saying, ‘it’s hard for me and it’s hard for us’. Council services are failing those who need them most and people are struggling to make ends meet.” Garbett continued: “I’m going to change the system. That’s why you’ve elected me, to lead the fightback here …

Surprise, “Democrats for Rob Coalition” chaired by GOP elected

Surprise, “Democrats for Rob Coalition” chaired by GOP elected

Published by Sam Flores

A frontline GOP congressman, Rep. Rob Bresnahan, R-Pa., launched the “Democrats for Rob Coalition” last month, billed as an invitation to Democrats living in Pennsylvania’s 8th Congressional District to vote for Republicans. The catch is that the main schtick of these “Democrats” seems to be supporting Republicans — and they have been for years. In April, Bresnahan announced the launch of the coalition and that it would be chaired by two local politicians, former Nanticoke mayor and current City Council President Joseph Dougherty and Jessup Borough Councilman Jeff Castellani. Bresnahan’s campaign manager, Peter Brath, claimed in the announcement that “Bresnahan has earned the support of local Democrat elected officials who know the needs and wants of Northeastern Pennsylvanians,” while his opponent, Scranton Mayor Paige Cognetti, was busy “sucking up to far left special interest groups and out of touch elites in DC.” The problem is that it’s not clear that either of the coalition’s chairs is a Democrat. Dougherty, though he was elected as mayor on the Democratic Party line back in 2010, was on …

Newly Elected Hungarian PM Vows To Arrest Netanyahu If He Enters Country

Newly Elected Hungarian PM Vows To Arrest Netanyahu If He Enters Country

Published by Jenni Sidey

Via The Cradle Hungary’s incoming Prime Minister, Peter Magyar, stated on April earlier this week that his government will arrest Israeli Prime Minister and ‘wanted war criminal’ Benjamin Netanyahu if he visits, as Budapest reconsiders the previous government’s plan to withdraw from the International Criminal Court (ICC). “I made myself clear to the Israeli prime minister too, we are not re-entering … because my colleagues examined the matter, and we can still stop withdrawal until June 2,” Magyar said. The prime minister-elect said his government intends to reverse Hungary’s exit from the ICC before it takes effect, after legal advisors determined the withdrawal process remains incomplete and can still be stopped once his administration takes office. “The firm intention of the Tisza government is to halt this process and ensure that Hungary remains a member of the ICC,” he stated, adding, “If someone is a member of the ICC and a person who is wanted enters our country, then they must be taken into custody.” The ICC issued arrest warrants for Netanyahu and his former defense minister, …

The Rev. Dr. Adam J. Shoemaker elected ninth bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of Long Island

The Rev. Dr. Adam J. Shoemaker elected ninth bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of Long Island

Published by Sam Flores

The Rev. Dr. Adam J. Shoemaker was elected ninth bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of Long Island on April 18 by nearly 300 clergy and lay delegates, meeting at the Cathedral of the Incarnation in Garden City, New York.  Shoemaker was elected on the fourth ballot by 95 votes in the clergy order and 76 votes in the lay order. The election required a majority in both orders on the same ballot, in accordance with the diocesan constitution.   Shoemaker said, “I am deeply humbled by the trust this convention has placed in me and accept the call to serve as your next diocesan bishop with hope and faith in what God will do among us. I look forward to laboring together across the Diocese of Long Island as one body in Christ, and I ask your prayers as we begin this new chapter together.”  Shoemaker serves as rector of St. Stephen’s Episcopal Church in Charleston, South Carolina. He has previously ministered in congregations in North Carolina and Massachusetts and served as a missionary in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.  An Egyptian American raised in Huntington, New York, he was formed in the …

Myanmar junta chief elected vice-president, edging closer to becoming president

Myanmar junta chief elected vice-president, edging closer to becoming president

Published by Sam Flores

Myanmar junta chief Min Aung Hlaing was elected a vice-president by the lower house on Tuesday, parliament officials said, with the coup leader edging closer to becoming the country’s civilian leader. Myanmar’s former commander in chief Min Aung Hlaing has led Myanmar since 2021, when he ousted the elected government of Aung San Suu Kyi and triggered civil war. His election sets in motion a process for him to exchange his uniform for civilian clothes, as the country’s parliament selects three vice-presidents, one of whom is then chosen as president. On the lower house floor Tuesday morning, MPs queued up at a row of tables and dropped their ballots into one of three clear-sided boxes. “The lower house of elected MPs announces Senior General Min Aung Hlaing as a vice-president,” lower house speaker Khin Yi said after the vote. The junta chief received 247 of the 260 votes, a parliament official said, according to a live broadcast. The upper house elected Nan Ni Ni Aye, a regional MP from Karen state with the military-aligned Union …