The true story of the fake US embassy in Ghana – The Guardian

On Friday 2 December 2016, a curious story appeared on the website GhanaBusinessNews.com. “Ghana security authorities shut down fake US Embassy in Accra,” the headline declared. For a decade, the story went, there had been a fake US embassy in the Ghanaian capital. The fraudsters behind it had flown the American flag from their building …

*NEW WORDS IN THE DICTIONARY: MUGABE*

*Mugabe*~[ Moo- gah-Bay]: 1.To refuse to go. 2.Unable to let go. 3.Stubbornly clinging on. 4.Blatant refusal to cooperate. *Mugabee*: an accomplice of the one who refuses to go. Or one who plans to benefit from the act of Mugabe. As in Grace Mugabe. *Mugabed*: to be denied your wish by one who refuses to let …

Mugabe’s Fall Is a Wake-Up Call for Africa’s Leaders – Chatham House

The end of the Mugabe presidency in Zimbabwe – with the swearing in of Emmerson Mnangagwa in Harare on Friday – is being watched closely across Africa, and especially by its long-standing leaders. Currently, 30 per cent of African countries are ruled by long-standing rulers, defined as heads of state that have ruled for more than …