Hosni Mubarak, who died on Tuesday, never expected to be president. But when a very public assassination thrust the former bomber pilot into the job, he made it his mission never to give it up. His story became Egypt’s story for the next 30 years until, finally, his people found they could
Abuja – President Muhammadu Buhari on Tuesday condoled with the government and people of Egypt over the passing of its former President, Hosni Mubarak. Mubarak died on Tuesday at the age of 91 at a Cairo hospital where he had undergone an unspecified surgery. The Nigerian leader, in a condolence message by his Senior Special […]
Hosni Mubarak who ruled Egypt for 30 years and stepped down after a popular revolution in 2011 has died aged 91. He was found guilty of complicity in the killing of protesters during the revolution. That conviction was overturned and was freed in March 2017. READ ALSO: 7 killed, 160 injured in violence over India’s […]
A Cairo court sentenced Egypt’s deposed autocrat Hosni Mubarak and his two sons to three years in prison on corruption charges on Saturday, The Associated Press reports. The case — dubbed the “presidential palaces” affair by the Egyptian media — was a retrial charging that Mubarak and sons embezzled millions of dollars’ worth of state […]
Ousted Former Egyptian President, Hosni Mubarak has been sentenced to three years in jail on corruption charges after a retrial in the capital, Cairo. His sons were given four years each in the same case which centres on the embezzlement of $14m (£9.3m) earmarked for renovation of presidential palaces. They had already been sentenced to […]
During the Cold War between the East and the West following the end of WWII, there existed, for good or ill, a semblance of a relatively stable world order. That stable world order, imposed by sheer force of arms by the USSR and USA required that the global Peace Corps dutifully patrolled their neighborhoods round […]
