Israel’s Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, has vowed to avenge the killing of over 300 Israelis by Hamas militants in what he termed a “black day” for...
Major airlines on Saturday cancelled flights to Tel Aviv following Palestinian militant group, Hamas, attack on Israel. The group in the early hours of Saturday launched...
The death toll in flash floods that hit India’s northeastern Sikkim state on Wednesday has risen to 40, with the number of people missing also estimated...
Five passengers were confirmed dead in Sri Lanka on Friday when a large tree fell on a state-run bus in the heart of the capital Colombo,...
An Iranian female activist, Narges Mohammadi, who was sentenced to seven years in prison for her activism, has won the 2023 Nobel Peace Prize for her...
The French Foreign Affairs Ministry has announced that it will begin pulling out troops from Niger Republic this week. The decision to withdraw the 1,500 troops...
Indian authorities on Thursday confirmed the death of at least 14 people and over 100 others missing following flash floods caused by a glacial lake burst...
Fellows of the MTN Media Innovation Programme (MIP) Cohort 2 recently visited South Africa as part of their six months fellowship. It was also a veritable...
A massive flash flood in Sikkim state, India, that was brought on by heavy rains, destroyed a valley and left 23 soldiers missing. According to a...
Head of the Roman Catholic Church, Pope Francis, may have given new hopes to same-sex couples after he suggested that priests could now give them their...
The Speaker of the United States House of Representatives, Kevin McCarthy has been booted out of his office in a historic vote by the lawmakers. The...
No less than 38 people have been injured in a huge fire that erupted at the Egyptian Police Headquarters in the city of Ismailia on Monday...
Separatist groups made up of Tuareg rebels have laid claims to killing over 98 Malian soldiers in one of the deadliest attacks witnessed in the country...
The wife of ousted Gabonese President Ali Bongo, Sylvia, has been charged with money laundering and other offences including forgery. This was according to Andre Patrick...
Breakaway region of Somaliland has rejected efforts by Uganda’s President Yoweri Museveni to mediate in reunification talks aimed at uniting the region and Somalia. Museveni had...
The granddaughter of South Africa’s anti-apartheid hero, Nelson Mandela, Zoleka Mandela, has passed away after losing a prolonged battle with cancer. A statement released by the...
The police in Thailand have charged a middle-aged man, Songsak Songsaeng, with beating three children to death after his wife left him. The BBC reports that...
Not less than 18 people were killed while more than 40 were injured when an explosives-laden vehicle detonated at a security checkpoint in the central Somalia...
An explosion at an illegal fuel depot in Cotonou, Benue Republic, killed at least 34 people on Saturday. The Beninese Minister of Interior, Alassane Seidou, told...
A court in Indonesia on Wednesday, sentenced a woman to two years in prison with a heavy fine after she was found guilty of reciting an...
Junior doctors in England on Wednesday, embarked on a five-day strike over a deadlock in salary negotiations with the government. The health practitioners, mostly first time...
A Kenyan military helicopter has crashed near the country’s border with Somalia, killing all eight people on board, military officials in the East African country said...
Five rescue workers from Greece were killed in a car accident on Sunday. The Greek government spokesman, Pavlos Marinakis, confirmed the incident on Monday. He said...
Not less than 17 people have been confirmed dead with dozens of others missing following a landslide that hit northwestern Democratic Republic of Congo after torrential...
The United Nations says the death toll from the flooding in Libya has risen to over 11,300 in the eastern city of Derna, with another 10,100...
Fourteen people comprising 12 passengers and two crew members on board a small plane were killed Saturday when the plane crashed in the Brazilian Amazonas northern...
An entire class of schoolchildren was killed in the devastating 6.8-magnitude earthquake that hit Morocco last week, officials have reported. According to emergency officials, the 32...
Death toll from the floods in Libya have hit 6,000 people, with over 10,000 reported missing after whole villages were swept into the Mediterranean Sea following...
Death toll from flood emanating from tropical Storm Daniel that swept through several areas in eastern Libya has surpassed 5,300, with an unspecified number still missing,...
Opposition figures in Zimbabwe are up in arms with President Emmerson Mnangagwa after he appointed one of his sons as a Minister in his new cabinet....
Morocco’s Ministry of Interior has announced that the death toll in the devastating earthquake that hit the country on Friday night has risen to 2,862 as...
The death toll in the huge earthquake that hit has reached more than 1,300 with another 1,800 critically injured. The North African country was hit by...
Enrique Tarrio, a former leader of the ‘Proud Boys’ gang that attacked the US Capitol Building on January 6, 2021, following an insurrection that erupted after...
The Niger Republic military junta has reopened the country’s airspace more than one month after ousting President Mohammed Basoum in a bloodless coup. The military said...
Gabon’s new military ruler, Gen. Brice Nguema, was inaugurated as the country’s caretaker president on Monday. Nguema was sworn in five days after he led the...
Tens of thousands of Nigeriens on Saturday held huge protests across the country demanding that French troops leave the country following an earlier ultimatum given to...
Leaders of Gabon’s military junta have announced the re-opening of the country’s borders after an initial nationwide closure following a coup that overthrew President Ali Bongo...
The African Union’s (AU) Peace and Security Council has suspended Gabon with immediate effect following the coup that ousted President Ali Bongo. The suspension of Gabon...
The Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) on Thursday dismissed the transitional proposal for the Republic of Niger currently in circulation as fake. In a...
A newly released video published on the Grey Zone Telegram channel linked to the Russian Wagner Group on Thursday, and showing its leader, Yevgeny Prigozhin, who...
The Johannesburg Emergency Services has confirmed the death of at least 73 people and 43 injured in a fire incident that engulfed a five-storey building in...
The Commonwealth on Wednesday expressed concern over the military coup in Gabon. A group of senior military officers had earlier on Wednesday taken over power minutes...
Gabonese military officers who announced the removal of President Ali Bongo on Wednesday morning have reportedly arrested and placed him under house arrest alongside one of...
A Nigerian man identified as Hassan Adeyemo, has been arrested and charged for allegedly shooting his wife, Sarah, to death in their apartment in Florida. A...
A group of senior military officers in Gabon have announced taking over power minutes after the Gabonese Election Centre announced President Ali Bongo as the winner...
The French President, Emmanuel Macron, on Monday praised the country’s ambassador to Niger for staying in the West African country despite pressure from the military junta...
Zimbabwean President Emmerson Mnangagwa has been declared winner of the country’s presidential election for a second and final term in office. The results of the election...
The Niger military junta has expelled the French ambassador to the country. In a statement issued by the Niger Republic minister of foreign affairs, the envoy,...
The United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) said on Friday 1.5million children in Pakistan are in dire need of humanitarian aid a year after the devastating floods...
The Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) on Friday asked the Niger Republic military junta to restore democratic order in the country. The President of...