Australia’s prime minister, Anthony Albanese, revealed in a romantic tweet Thursday his engagement to girlfriend Jodie Haydon. “She said yes”, the 60-year-old Albanese posted to X, formerly Twitter, alongside a love-heart emoji. Beneath the announcement he posted a selfie, reportedly taken on Valentine’s Day, of the pair smiling into the lens. Haydon is dressed in emerald green and has her …

French Prime Minister Elisabeth Borne resigned on Monday as President Emmanuel Macron prepared to unveil a long-awaited cabinet reshuffle in a bid to give new momentum to the final three years of his presidency. After days of intense behind-the-scenes manoeuvring, Education Minister Gabriel Attal, 34, was emerging as the favourite to succeed Borne, whose successor has yet to be named. …

Nearly two weeks after the military took over power in Niger Republic, the coup plotters have announced former Economy Minister, Ali Mahaman Lamine Zeine as the Prime Minister. A spokesman for the military junta made the announcement on television late on Monday night. Zeine was Minister of Economy and Finance for several years in the cabinet of then-president Mamadou Tandja, …

United Kingdom Prime Minister Rishi Sunak has said that he “looks forward to working” with Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu after his inauguration as President on 29th May. In a letter to President-elect, the United Kingdom PM said he hopes to welcome Tinubu for the second Africa Investment Summit billed for London in April next year. He said the summit would …

Japan has stated that it will begin to treat COVID-19 as an equal to the seasonal flu. Prime Minister Fumio Kishida declared on Friday that COVID-19 would be downgraded from its current level two to disease category five, placing it on par with SARS and tuberculosis. The virus will be placed in the same category as the common cold and …