The military governments in Burkina Faso, Mali, and Niger Republic have resolved to set up a joint force to fight Islamist terrorist groups in the three...
France is on the verge of making a historic move, as lawmakers are expected to definitively enshrine abortion rights within the country’s constitution. This would make...
Kenya’s parliament head has ordered the education ministry to look into claims that a university in the country is making Muslim students go to Christian services....
The United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, Volker Turk, said on Thursday more than 30,000 people have been killed in the Gaza Strip since Israel...
Ghana’s parliament on Wednesday, passed a new strict anti-LGBTQ bill after months of debate and opposition by pro-gay groups and the international community. The legislation known...
Thousands of security forces have been deployed to Chad capital, N’Djamena and road blocks set up on major roads following an attack on the headquarters of...
The European Union has removed four countries from its list of non-cooperative tax jurisdictions. The countries are – Bahamas, Belize, Seychelles, Turks and Caicos Islands. The...
President Macky Sall of Senegal has been accused of “ill will” by fifteen candidates in the country’s delayed presidential election. The candidates also noted that they...
The German government has agreed to join a European Union military mission to protect shipping in the Red Sea. The deputy government spokesman, Wolfgang Büchner announced...
Alexei Navalny, Russia’s most prominent opposition leader for the past decade and President Vladimir Putin’s fiercest critic, has died in prison, according to an announcement from...
Russia, on Thursday, launched new missile attacks on Ukraine, hitting infrastructure, damaging residential and commercial buildings, and injuring at least 11 people in different parts of...
A celebratory atmosphere turned tragic at the end of the Kansas City Chiefs’ Super Bowl victory parade, as a shooting erupted amidst the jubilant crowd. One...
Republicans in the US House of Representatives on Tuesday voted 214-213 to impeach Homeland Security Secretary, Alejandro Mayorkas, over a record influx of illegal migrants crossing...
China has called on Israel to halt military operations in Gaza as soon as possible following a raid that rescued two hostages and killed at least...
Leader of Niger Republic’s military junta, Gen. Abdourahamane Tchiani, has vowed that his country would never rejoin the West African regional bloc, the Economic Community of...
Israel’s spy chief has travelled to Cairo on Tuesday for talks with his Egyptian and United States counterparts on a Gaza truce proposal, Israeli officials have...
Four people were killed and another one injured after a gunman opened fire at a market in the city of Rustavi, Georgia. The country’s Ministry of...
A Kenyan man named Kelvin Kangethe—wanted in the US for the death of his girlfriend—has managed to elude capture, while in detention in Kenya. Local media...
Pakistan’s already tense election season took a horrific turn on Wednesday as two separate bomb blasts outside the offices of election candidates in southwestern Balochistan province...
A two-month-old baby has been killed in a Russian missile attack on a hotel in the Ukrainian region of Kharkiv. The military governor of the Kharkiv...
European Union member states and lawmakers are currently divided over how to define rape, as negotiators head into last-stretch talks Tuesday on the first bloc-wide law...
King Charles lll has been diagnosed with a form of cancer. The Buckingham Palace confirmed the news in a statement in London on Monday evening. The...
The Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS), on Sunday, expressed concern over the postponement of the Senegalese presidential election. This is after President of Senegal,...
The United Nations International Children’s Emergency Fund (UNICEF) has discovered that at least 17,000 Palestinian children and young people are living in the Gaza Strip without...
Security agents in Cambodia have arrested four local men for allegedly trafficking illicit drugs in the Southeast Asia nation. The country’s Anti-Drug Department (ADP) said on...
Armed rebels killed at least three security personnel in India’s central state of Chhattisgarh on Tuesday. A police officer confirmed the news to journalists in Chhattisgarh....
Head of the Roman Catholic Church worldwide, Pope Francis, has described Africans as a “special case” in the opposition of bishops and many other people in...
The military regimes in Burkina Faso, Mali, and Niger, on Sunday, announced their immediate withdrawal from the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) The leaders...
A court in Ghana on Wednesday sentenced six people to death for their roles in the 2021 attempted coup in the West African country. The convicts,...
The Police in Singapore has revealed that no fewer than 6,300 people lost $16 million in “fake friend” scams last year in the country. Reports have...
Former United States of America President, Donald Trump, will Thursday resume his sexual assault defamation trial in New York. This would be just two days after...
At least eight have been confirmed dead in a landslide in the South-West Chinese Province of Yunnan. 40 people were also buried in the landslide that...
The United Nations migration agency has launched its first global annual appeal on Monday, requesting nearly $8 billion for this year alone to manage the growing...
The United Nations Secretary-General, António Guterres, has again appealed for a humanitarian ceasefire in Gaza and the unconditional release of all hostages. He made the call...
The death toll from Thursday’s landslide in a mining village of Davao de Oro province in the southern Philippines has increased to nine. In a social...
At least 14 people, including 12 children died in a boat accident at Harni Lake in Gujarat’s Vadodara, western India on Thursday. Two teachers were among...
In a sharp escalation of tensions, Pakistan launched missile strikes into Iran’s Sistan-Baluchestan province on Thursday, reportedly killing nine people, following Iranian airstrikes on Pakistani soil...
South Africa has lodged an appeal at the International Court of Justice (ICJ) which will see Israel facing genocide charges and force it to immediately suspend...
The International Labour Organization (ILO) cast a cautious shadow over the global job market outlook on Wednesday, predicting a slight increase in unemployment in 2024 despite...
The Nigerian government has lauded the release of Khadija Bazoum, the wife of ousted former President of Niger Republic, Mohammad Bazoum, and his son, Salem Bazoum,...
The French President, Emmanuel Macron, on Tuesday appointed a 34-year-old Gabriel Attal as the country’s new Prime Minister. Attal, the country’s education minister, replaced Elisabeth Borne,...
At least 11 subsistence mine workers have been trapped in an underground shaft after a ground collapse at Zimbabwe’s Redwing Mine in the capital, Harare. The...
The Iraqi Prime Minister, Mohammed Shia al-Sudani, on Friday reiterated his pledge to end the presence of the United States-led coalition in the country. The PM...
The desperate search for 242 people missing after a powerful earthquake rocked Japan on New Year’s Day enters a critical phase as the 72-hour window for...
The year 2023 was indeed one that played host to a variety of disasters on the African continent, with some of them the worst the respective...
The Fiji government has resolved to reform its immigration department to allow skilled workers from other countries to fill job vacancies in the Pacific island country....
Iranian authorities on Thursday, revised down the death toll from the twin blasts in the country’s south, saying 84 people were killed. The explosions occured at...