It was reported that a Criminal Court in Cairo was on Saturday sentenced Raouf Boutros-Ghali (who is an actor and former finance minister’s brother) to 30 years in prison for smuggling artifacts to Italy. The court also fined him (Raouf Boutros-Ghali) 6 million Egyptian pounds ($382,000). Boutros-Ghali is a brother of Yousef Boutros-Ghali (former finance […]
It was reported that a military appeal court in Blida, south of Algiers has upheld jail terms of the country’s former intelligence chiefs and ex-president Abdelaziz Bouteflika’s brother. The two former Algerian intelligence chiefs (Mohamed Mediene and Athmane Tartag), along with Said Bouteflika were convicted for conspiring against the army and the state authority. They
Our (Viewers Corner News) correspondent in Lilongwe reported that Malawi’s presidential election that was held on 21 May 2019 which declared President Peter Mutharika a winner has been annulled on Monday by Malawi’s Constitutional Court. The court also ordered that a new presidential re-run be held within 150 days. Malawi’s President Peter Mutharika was declared
It was reported that Hisham al-Ashmawy (a former special forces officer turned Islamic militant) and 36 others have been sentenced to death after an Egyptian court convicted them on terrorism charges. Hisham al-Ashmawy was arrested in Derna (Libyan city) in 2018 and authorities loyal to commander Khalifa Haftar extradited him to Egypt in May 2019.
It was reported that the U.S President Donald Trump on Friday, 31 January issued a new travel ban which targets immigrants from six countries (Nigeria, Eritrea, Kyrgyzstan, Myanmar, Sudan and Tanzania). Among the six countries added in the ban, four including Nigeria are African nations and three of them have Muslim-majority populations. Chad Wolf, the
The ideology the Boko haram terrorist group are following is not the best way of life. If the Boko haram group have any grievances against the government of Nigeria, they should come out and say it because Nigerian government just like every other government around the world is open to dialogue and the only best
It was reported that 37 people were on Monday sentenced to prison by a criminal court in Cairo (Egypt) for joining or supporting Islamic State’s Sinai Province affiliate. The militants loyal to Islamic state group have been causing havoc in the north of the Sinai Peninsula and other parts of Egypt, hundreds of soldiers, police
The 52 year old Evariste Ndayishimiye has been selected on Sunday by Burundi’s ruling party, the National Council for the Defense of Democracy-Forces (CNDD-FDD) as its candidate in the country’s presidential election scheduled in May 2020. Mr Ndayishimiye is a retired army general who also heads the department of military affairs and has served as
It was reported that sanctions have been imposed on South Sudanese First Vice President, Taban Deng Gai. The U.S Treasury Department stated this in a statement on Wednesday in Washington. The Treasury Department accused Taban Deng Gai of having hands in the death of Aggrey Idri Ezibon (opposition politician) and Dong Samuel Luak (human rights
The Islamist militant group, al Shabaab has claimed responsibility for the bomb attacks on Wednesday, 7 January near the presidential palace and other government buildings in Mogadishu. According to the report Viewers Corner News team got, the blast hit Sayidka junction, a security checkpoint near the presidential palace. The bomb attacks killed three people and
