Trump’s next chief of staff
US PRESIDENT Donald Trump has picked budget director Mick Mulvaney, pictured, to be his next chief of staff, ending a chaotic search that had been inching forward with the feel of an unfolding reality television show.
Trump tweeted that Mulvaney “will be named Acting White House Chief of Staff, replacing General John Kelly, who has served our country with distinction”.
“Mick has done an outstanding job while in the Administration,” Trump posted.
“I look forward to working with him in this new capacity as we continue to MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN! John will be staying until the end of the year. He is a GREAT MADRID: Spanish prosecutors filed charges against Colombian singer Shakira on Friday, accusing her of failing to pay €14.5 million in tax in the country where her Spanish footballer partner plays.
Shakira representatives said that she did not live in Spain until 2015, and had met all her tax obligations to Spanish authorities. | PATRIOT and I want to personally thank him for his service!”
Though deemed an “acting” attorney general, Mulvaney’s term will be open-ended, according to a senior White House official speaking on the condition of anonymity to discuss personnel matters. The position does not require confirmation.
Mulvaney, who will be Trump’s third chief of staff, will now take on his third job in the administration; he is the head of the Office of Management and had simultaneously led the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau.
Trump’s first chief of staff, Reince Priebus, served for six months before leaving in July last year. | A GROUP of young Nigerians have invented an island where people with albinism escape being hunted down and having their limbs hacked off for use in witch doctors’ magic potions.
While the hideaway is fictional – it only exists in Peda Comics’ latest online series, due for release soon – it is based on real-life murders of people with albinism across Africa, the creative team behind the comic said.
“It’s crazy, it’s outrageous and it doesn’t make any sense – it’s evil,” said Peter Daniel, 22, executive producer of the comic and head of Peda Studio, a Nigerian multimedia firm in Lagos.
“The story hasn’t been told before. We need to showcase this to the world, what is happening.” BRITAIN’S royals revealed their 2018 Christmas cards on Friday, with Prince William choosing a relaxed family photo at their Amner Hall country residence while Harry used an image taken on the evening of his wedding to Meghan Markle of the couple watching fireworks at Windsor Castle in May.
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Albinism is a genetic condition where a lack of the melanin pigment makes people’s hair and skin white, which can make them vulnerable to sunburn and skin cancers. The UN estimates one in 1 400 people is affected in Tanzania – one of the countries with the highest rates of mutilation and murder for their body parts, which are believed to possess magical powers. In the first of the three-part series of
people with albinism take action after the president of the fictional African state of Zamia is assassinated in a coup.
The comic’s creator, Austine Osas, said he had been motivated after seeing a friend with albinism being bullied at school in Nigeria. | MAIDUGURI: The Nigerian military has lifted a suspension of UN International Children’s Emergency Fund (Unicef) activities in the country, hours after it was imposed amid accusations that Unicef staff spied for Islamist militants.
Nigeria’s north-east has been torn apart by a decade-long insurgency by Boko Haram and its splinter group Islamic State West Africa, in which more than 30 000 people have been killed. With millions displaced, the north-east is largely dependent on international aid.
On Friday, the military said Unicef was training people to sabotage counter-insurgency efforts by uncovering alleged rights abuses by the military.
A Unicef spokeswoman said the organisation was “verifying the information”. |