Mansa Musa Sculpture By Sebastiane Ebatamehi. An African named Mansa Musa remains the wealthiest man that ever lived. He was the tenth emperor of Mali whose wealth has been described as too vast to be imagined—or equalled. Modern-day financial analysts have tried to quantify his wealth, and they report that his estimated value sits around

A group of Libyan tribal leaders paid an official visit to Cairo to meet with President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi. The visit was part of Cairo’s efforts to shore up legitimacy for a potential Egyptian intervention in Libya to deter Turkey’s ambitions, and by extension those of its Islamist allies in the Tripoli-based Government of National

Photo: Credit Evening Standard A Metropolitan police officer has been suspended after a video appeared to show him briefly apply pressure with his knee to a suspect’s neck area during an arrest in London. The suspect, who is handcuffed and on the ground, shouts “get off my neck”. The Metropolitan police said the video was

FILE – In this Aug. 31, 2019 file photo, Britain’s Princess Beatrice with her fiance, Edoardo Mapelli Mozzi, attend the wedding of Ellie Goulding and Caspar Jopling, in York, England. Buckingham Palace says that Princess Beatrice has got married in a private ceremony, with her grandmother Queen Elizabeth II in attendance. Beatrice married Edoardo Mapelli

European nations are not doing enough to check Russian and allied activities in Libya, the US’s senior diplomat for the Middle East said Thursday. Addressing the German Marshall Fund during a virtual discussion, David Schenker said while European capitals are “proud” of their efforts to enforce a UN arms blockade on the North African country

A Saudi court has issued an “historic” ruling in a legal case that will give women the right to live and travel freely within the kingdom without the permission of their guardian. The judgement, which will be seen as another milestone in Crown Prince Mohammed Bin Salman’s reformation of the conservative country, followed a legal

Shamima Begum argued she could not effectively appeal against Javid’s decision from detention in Syria (Screenshot) British judges ruled on Thursday that Shamima Begum, who joined the Islamic State group (IS) at 15, should be allowed to return to the United Kingdom to contest the stripping of her citizenship. Begum, now 20, absconded to IS-held

This Sunday, July 5, 2020 satellite image from Planet Labs Inc. shows the substantial damage done by an explosion and a fire at an advanced centrifuge assembly plant at Iran’s Natanz nuclear site. Israeli leaders are now hinting it was behind the massive fire at the Iranian nuclear site last week, potentially ratcheting up a

Waleed A. Elkhereiji Waleed A. Elkhereiji, Saudi Arabia’s ambassador to Turkey during the 2018 murder of journalist Jamal Khashoggi, was appointed as the kingdom’s deputy foreign minister on Wednesday, Daily Sabah reported. Khashoggi, a vocal critic of Saudi Arabia’s powerful Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, was killed in the Saudi consulate in Istanbul in October

Presumptive Democratic nominee Joe Biden, tech luminary Elon Musk, musician Kanye West among those affected Several prominent Twitter accounts appear to have been hacked Wednesday, including those of musician Kanye West, tech luminary Elon Musk and US presidential contender Joe Biden. The accounts of former President Barack Obama, Amazon owner Jeff Bezos, financier Warren Buffet