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ICJ backs France in Equatorial Guinea mansion row
The top UN court on Friday backed France in a long-running dispute with Equatorial Guinea over a multi-million-euro Paris mansion seized during a corruption probe into the country's vice-president. Equatorial Guinea had asked the International...

World AFP ICJ backs France in Equatorial Guinea mansion row
The top UN court on Friday backed France in a long-running dispute with Equatorial Guinea over a multi-million-euro Paris mansion seized during a corruption probe into the country's vice-president. Equatorial Guinea had asked the International...

Amid corruption probe: ICJ backs France in Equatorial Guinea mansion row
The top UN court on Friday backed France in a long-running dispute with Equatorial Guinea over a multi-million-euro Paris mansion seized during a corruption probe into the country's vice-president. Equatorial Guinea had asked the International...
Journalist witnesses China-Equatorial Guinea friendship at donated school in China
Milagrosa Ada Micha Abeso, an Equatorial Guinean journalist, dances with children at the China-Equatorial Guinea Friendship Primary School in Jinping Miao, Yao and Dai Autonomous County, southwest China's Yunnan Province, Sept. 9, 2025. Since...

CSU provides few updates as impact of federal immigration policy still uncertain
Visa-holding students across the nation faced a turbulent spring semester following multiple new federal immigration laws that put some students’ immigration status at risk. Federal immigration policy has undergone several developments since The...

Foursquare Gospel Church marks 70th anniversary in Nigeria
The Foursquare Gospel Church in Nigeria has rolled out activities to celebrate its 70th anniversary, including 12th public lecture and the 70th Annual National Convention scheduled for October. Speaking at a press conference in Lagos on Monday,...

Bay Area community of Afghan immigrants feels betrayed and uncertain in the wake of Trump’s travel ban
As the Trump administration continues to bar citizens of over a dozen foreign nations, local immigrant communities have been left feeling frustrated and fearful. The travel ban, which expands on Trump’s efforts to ban nationals from several...

Equatorial Guinea Sentences Former Top Official Baltasar Ebang Engonga to Eight Years for Embezzlement Amid Sensational Scandal
In a landmark ruling that has sent shockwaves through Equatorial Guinea’s political elite, Baltasar Ebang Engonga, a former senior government official and once the head of the National Financial Investigation Agency (ANIF), was sentenced to eight...

Equatorial Guinea Jails Baltasar Engonga for Eight Years
A former senior government official in Equatorial Guinea, Baltasar Ebang Engonga, has been sentenced to eight years in prison for embezzlement by an Equatorial Guinea court. Engonga went viral last year after sex tapes involving him and several...

Popular 15-year-old computer whiz to become the Catholic Church's first millennial saint
CHICAGO — At a Catholic school in Pope Leo XIV's hometown, fifth graders read comic books about Carlo Acutis' life titled "Digital Disciple." They draw pictures of what the teenage Italian computer whiz might have had as his cellphone wallpaper....

Forum on China-Africa Cooperation: 25 Years of Hope and Human Results in Education
The year 2025 marks a significant milestone in the history of the Forum on China-Africa Cooperation (FOCAC), which celebrates twenty-five years since its establishment in 2000. As we commemorate a quarter century of this alliance, the world must...

Baltasar Engonga: Former Equatorial Guinea Anti-Graft Czar Jailed Eight Years Over Sex Tape, Embezzlement Scandal
Equatorial Guinea’s former anti-corruption chief, Baltasar Engonga, has been sentenced to eight years in prison following a scandal that shocked the country late last year. The Bioko provincial court on August 27, 2025, found Engonga guilty of...

New $250 'visa integrity fee' to be imposed on millions of travelers under Trump's latest immigration crackdown
The Trump administration is implementing a new $250 'visa integrity fee' on travelers arriving in the United States as part of a continued immigration crackdown. The new visa fee, set to go into effect on October 1, adds an additional hurdle for...

77th Emmy Awards 2025 Ceremony Live Streaming: Date, Time, Hosts, When and Where To Watch Emmys 2025 Online and on TV in Your Country
It’s time for the Emmys! The 77th Primetime Emmy Awards 2025 will be held on Sunday, September 14, 2025. The prestigious awards will honour the best on primetime television in America. Shows and content that aired from June 1, 2024, to May 31,...

Liberia, Sierra-Leone, Equitorial-Guinea Among 26 Countries Without UNESCO World Heritage Sites
1 LAGOS – Six African countries namely; Liberia, Somalia, Sierra-Leone, South-Sudan, Djibouti and Equatorial Guinea are among 26 countries globally without the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) World...

From power to prison: Baltasar Engonga’s wild lifestyle ends in 8-year sentence
The fall of Baltasar Ebang Engonga, once a powerful government insider and nephew of President Teodoro Obiang Nguema, has become one of the most talked-about stories across Africa. Known for his flamboyant lifestyle and influence in Equatorial...

American anti-apartheid activist Amy Elizabeth Biehl stabbed to death in Guguletu
325 First Council of Nicaea ends with adoption of the Nicene Creed, establishing the doctrine of the Holy Trinity. Roman Emperor Constantine, egged on by his mother, had ordered the council define the core doctrines of Christianity, especially the...

Ministry of Information Launches Nationwide Consultations on Sierra Leone’s First Data Protection Law
The Ministry of Information and Civic Education has launched nationwide consultations on the draft Right to Access Information and Data Protection Regulatory Commission Bill. During the launch, Minister of Information Chernor Bah described the...

2025 Year to Date in Review: United States Immigration Changes and Updates
Overview So far, 2025 has brought a flurry of immigration changes that have impacted thousands of individuals residing in the United States. To ensure you have not missed anything, we have summarized and detailed each of them below (from most to...

Several 9/11 Hijackers Used ‘Visa Overstay’ Loophole to Stay in U.S.
A number of the 19 Islamic terrorists who hijacked commercial planes on September 11, 2001, killing almost 3,000 Americans, were able to remain in the United States unchecked by immigration authorities thanks to the nation’s visa overstay...