Donors, who pay for much of the government’s budget, oppose the move. Mohamed Abdullahi Mohamed, the president of Somalia, signed a law extending his term in office by two years after failing to hold elections before the expiry of his mandate in February. The trial will proceed without Mr Compaoré, who has been in exile in Ivory Coast since he was swept from power by protests in 2014. A committee will submit a final report to the federal prosecutor’s office, which will consider any possible criminal acts.īlaise Compaoré, who ruled Burkina Faso for 27 years, is to be tried for the murder of his predecessor, Thomas Sankara, who was killed in a coup in 1987. He will face Keiko Fujimori, the daughter of Alberto Fujimori, a jailed former president, in a run-off in June.īrazil’s Senate took the first step towards a congressional inquiry into President Jair Bolsonaro’s handling of the covid-19 pandemic, which has killed more than 350,000 Brazilians. Pedro Castillo, a leftist teacher, came out on top in the first round of Peru’s presidential election, but did not win a majority of votes.

Mr Lasso, who barely scraped into the initial run-off, has promised to reduce the pay disparity between men and women, to feed chronically undernourished children and to fix Ecuador’s incompetent public-health system. Guillermo Lasso, a conservative ex-banker, unexpectedly won Ecuador’s presidential election. Mr Biden has called the rules “Jim Crow in the 21st century” his predecessor Donald Trump wants a boycott of “woke” firms that speak out against them.

They were responding to the American state of Georgia’s new voting law, which critics say would make it harder for black people to vote. Hundreds of celebrities, bosses and companies signed a statement condemning voting restrictions. Ms Potter was charged with second-degree manslaughter. The chief of police said he believed that Kim Potter mistakenly drew her gun instead of her Taser before shooting Daunte Wright. Protesters in Minneapolis clashed with police over several nights after a black man was killed by a white police officer. Mr Cameron denied breaking any rules, but admitted he should have used formal channels to contact ministers. Germany’s ruling Christian Democrats were locked in a bitter row over whether Armin Laschet, the leader of the Christian Democratic Union, or Markus Söder, leader of the Bavaria-based Christian Social Union, should be their joint candidate in the general election due in September.īoris Johnson, Britain’s prime minister, ordered an investigation into lobbying by David Cameron, one of his predecessors, on behalf of Greensill Capital, a collapsed financier.

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