Trump’s first 100 days: America First president is overturning the world order — Reuters

Trump’s first 100 days: Amer­i­ca First pres­i­dent is over­turn­ing the world order  Reuters Analy­sis | An unpop­u­lar pres­i­dent con­tin­ues to push rad­i­cal changes on the coun­try  The Wash­ing­ton Post The most con­se­quen­tial moments from the first 100 days of Trump’s sec­ond term  PBS Trump’s first 100 days seen as bring­ing big changes, but still too much focus on tariffs…

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Tyrants like Trump always fall – and we can already predict how he will be dethroned | Simon Tisdall

https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/6f9b904666fed6e750c0931a8c357a0aa9689be6/0_3_7514_4512/master/7514.jpg?width=140&quality=85&auto=format&fit=max&s=44ad1aa4cb3925c405abd5ad2c1246e5The US con­sti­tu­tion pro­tects incom­pe­tence. But don’t under­es­ti­mate the self-destruc­­­tive pow­er of the president’s own hubris Tyrants come to a sticky end, or so his­to­ry sug­gests. Richard III and Cori­olanus made bloody exits. More recent­ly, Sad­dam Hus­sein went to the gal­lows, Slo­bo­dan Milo­se­vic went to jail, Bashar al-Assad went into exile. Libya’s Muam­mar Gaddafi was…

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Pope Francis a ‘champion of mercy’ for migrants — BBC Africa

Kenya’s Arch­bish­op Antho­ny Muhe­ria is one among sev­er­al Catholics cler­ics from all over the world cur­rent­ly in Rome for Pope Fran­cis’ funer­al this Sat­ur­day.  In an inter­view with @BBC Africa, Muhe­ria the arch­bish­op of the Nyeri Catholic Arch­dio­cese, in Kenya, said that Pope Fran­cis was a ‘cham­pi­on of mer­cy’ which he dis­played towards migrants and…

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‘Africa not a pizza to be sliced’: Nigerian priest leader recalls Pope Francis- BBC Africa

#pope­fran­cis #pope­fran­c­is­fu­ner­al Father Chine­du Achusim, Asso­ci­a­tion of Niger­ian priests, reli­gious and sem­i­nar­i­ans in Rome (NIPRELS) , an asso­ci­a­tion of cler­ics from the West African nation based in the Ital­ian cap­i­tal, spoke pas­sion­ate­ly to @BBCAfrica about Pope Fran­cis’ stance on Africa.  “Those words of his ‘hands off Africa’ will con­tin­ue to re-echo,” says father Achusim. He…

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‘What we want to build is bigger than basketball’ — BBC Africa

The rela­tion­ship between music and bas­ket­ball is a long-stand­ing tra­di­tion, with instances of bas­ket­ball stars explor­ing music ven­tures and artists draw­ing inspi­ra­tion from play­ers. Very much two sides of the same coin, the fusion of music and bas­ket­ball has a pow­er­ful impact. ⁣ ⁣ It’s no sur­prise that just like the NBA, Bas­ket­ball Africa League @bal…

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Pope Francis: A look back at his impact in Africa and beyond — BBC Africa

Pope Fran­cis has died at the age of 88 after a bout of ill­ness. Born Jorge Mario Bergoglio in the Argen­tine cap­i­tal, Buenos Aires, he was elect­ed in 2013, the first non-Euro­­pean pope to lead the Catholic Church in cen­turies. Under his papa­cy, the Vat­i­can has adopt­ed a real­ist approach to for­eign affairs to mediate…

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