Oliver Stolpe, Country Representative, United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC), has said that the world loses $2.3 trillion to corruption annually. He disclosed this at the Corruption Risk Assessment (CRA) training organised for […]
Gabon President Ali Bongo is ill President Ali Bongo of Gabon who has been in hospital since October has suffered a stroke. Vice-President Pierre Claver Maganga Moussavou provided the first the first official details of […]
U.S. President Donald Trump could face impeachment and jail time if hush money payments reported by his former lawyer are proven to be campaign finance violations, Democratic lawmakers said on Sunday. Court filings on Friday […]
Former US President George HW Bush has died at the age of 94, his son George W Bush has announced. George Bush Sr, as he was known, passed away on Friday evening, a spokesperson said […]
Tyson Fury emerged through the sun roof pointing to the sky as the undefeated English fighter arrived in style ahead of the weigh-in for his heavyweight bout with Deontay Wilder. The 30-year-old is facing the biggest fight […]
Cameroon have been stripped of hosting next year’s Africa Cup of Nations, says the Confederation of African Football. African football’s governing body (Caf) says it is because of delays in the progress of Cameroon’s preparation […]
French President Emmanuel Macron said Thursday he would raise the killing of journalist Jamal Khashoggi with Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman on the sidelines of the G20 summit. “I will no doubt have the […]
An eleven years old boy was forced to have sex with his stepmother and watch porn in an attempt to make him stop homosexuality. Daniel Dowling, who now is 36 revealed the identities of those […]
The demonstrators shouted “Go away assassin!” and held placards with slogans including “The people want Bin Salman to be judged”, “No to the killer of Yemeni children” and “You’re not welcome”. It was the second protest in […]
Four Turkish soldiers were killed and another wounded on Monday when a military helicopter crashed in a residential area in Istanbul during a training exercise, officials said. The helicopter went down in the Sancaktepe district […]
Lewis Hamilton has won the season-ending Abu Dhabi Grand Prix, his 11th this season The British driver who has already won the 2018 championship, his fifth also broke record, becoming the first driver to break […]
French President Emmanuel Macron has said that France will return 26 artworks taken from the west African state of Benin in the colonial era. His announcement follows an experts’ report recommending that African treasures in […]
Chelsea legend Didier Drogba has confirmed his retirement from playing, ending “an amazing 20 years”. The Ivory Coast striker, 40, had two spells at Chelsea, scoring 164 goals in 381 games and winning four Premier […]
International police body Interpol elected Kim Jong-yang of South Korea as president for a two-year term on Wednesday, beating a Russian national whose candidacy raised concerns in Europe and the U.S. about the risk of […]
Facebook Chief Executive Mark Zuckerberg is pushing back against calls for him to step down as chairman and hoped to continue working with his longtime chief operating officer, Sheryl Sandberg. Zuckerberg made the comments during […]
Former Secretary of state for International Development in the United Kingdom (UK), Priti Patel, has called on investors to be wary about investing in Nigeria, even as she faulted economy policies of President Muhammadu Buhari administration. […]
The Netherlands and the international Labour Organisation, have launched a new strategic partnership to create livelihoods for refugees and host communities in the Horn of Africa and the Middle East. ILO Deputy Director- General for […]
Four people have died in a shooting at a Chicago hospital, including two female members of staff and a police officer, and the gunman himself. The two women killed were a doctor and a pharmaceutical […]
Germany has issued entry bans for 18 Saudi citizens suspected of involvement in the killing of journalist Jamal Khashoggi in Riyadh’s Istanbul consulate. The ban effectively denies them entry into the European Union’s passport-free Schengen […]
At least 42 people are confirmed to have died in a fire aboard a bus in Zimbabwe late on Thursday. The bus was travelling near Beitbridge, close to the border with South Africa, when the […]
The CIA believes that Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman ordered the murder of journalist Jamal Khashoggi, according to US media reports. Sources close to the agency said it had made a detailed assessment of […]
Following the brutal killing of Saudi Arabian journalist, Jamal Khashoggi, death penalty has been sought against five suspects that were accused of murdering the journalist in the country’s consulate in Istanbul, Turkey. Khashoggi was said […]
Gabon’s top court has ruled that the vice president will chair the cabinet in the absence of President Ali Bongo, who remains in hospital in Saudi Arabia. Bongo had been in the Saudi hospital after […]
British Brexit Minister, Dominic Raab, resigned on Thursday over Prime Minister Theresa May’s deal to leave the EU. He said in a statement on Twitter “I regret to say that, following the Cabinet meeting yesterday […]
After a five-day visit to France for first edition of the Paris Peace Forum, President Muhammadu Buhari has returned home. While in Paris the president joined other world leaders to commemorate the centenary anniversary of […]
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