Africa

Mohammed Bazoum elected as President of Niger Republic

  By Abba Gwale Niger Republic electoral board CENI, confirmed Mohammed Bazoum of PNDS party as the winner of the country's Presidential election held on Sunday. The...

Bomb kills 7 electoral officers in Niger

By Abba Gwale At least seven election officials in Niger Republic have lost their lives on Sunday after their car hit a bomb and exploded. The...

Africa COVID-19 deaths surpass 100,000 after second wave

Africa’s reported COVID-19 death toll surpassed 100,000 on Friday, a fraction of those reported on other continents but rising fast as a second wave...

Guinea confirms 3 dead from Ebola, first cases since 2016

By Abba Gwale Health officials in Guinea on Sunday confirmed that at least three people have died from Ebola, the first cases declared since it...

Trial of Morrocan newspaper editor adjourned to March

By Ismail Auwal The trial of editor-in-chief of the Akhbar Al Yaoun newspaper, Soulaimane Raissouni was postponed to March 2 at a hearing on Tuesday....

Mali hospitals battle covid-19 second wave

Mali is battling a second wave of the coronavirus pandemic. Critically ill covid-19 patients are treated at the Point G hospital in Bamako. Like...

Kuwait sells assets for cash to fund budget deficit

By Abba Gwale Kuwait’s government has transferred the last of its performing assets to the country’s sovereign wealth fund in exchange for cash to plug...

Ethiopia – Sudan clashes persist, threaten to escalate

By Ismail Auwal Age-old territorial claims are threatening to embroil Ethiopia and Sudan into armed conflict, as bickering over disputed strips of farmland in recent...

Myanmar military seizes power in coup

By Abba Gwale Myanmar’s military detained the country’s de facto leader Aung San Suu Kyi, and other senior figures from the governing party on Monday,...

Court upholds prison terms of 2 former Algerian Prime Ministers

By Ismail Auwal A court in the Algerian capital on Thursday upheld hefty prison sentences against two former prime ministers who served under ex-president Abdelaziz...

AU cautions Kenya, Somalia over border tensions

By Abba Gwale Head of African Union, Moussa Faki Mahamaton, has urged Kenya and Somalia to exercise restraint and minimize tensions between their countries' borders. Earlier...

9 defaulting African countries to lose UN voting rights

By Ismail Auwal Nine African countries and Iran to lose their United Nation’s (UN) voting rights for failing to pay their dues to the UN’s...

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