Democratic and Republican politicians have sharply criticised President Trump’s plan to use emergency powers to pay for a border wall with Mexico. The rarely-used move would enable Mr Trump to bypass Congress, which has refused […]
Former US president, Bill Clinton, has canceled his trip to Nigeria to attend the signing of a peace accord between President Muhammadu Buhari and Presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Atiku Abubakar. National […]
Algeria’s 81-year-old President Abdelaziz Bouteflika will seek a fifth term in April’s elections, he announced in a message published by state media. Mr Bouteflika has been in office for 20 years but has rarely been […]
Addis Ababa and other cities across Ethiopia are observing the country’s third Car Free Day. With none of the usual traffic clogging the capital, Sunday football devotees took to the streets. The monthly event is […]
The mother of a three-year-old girl has become the first person to be found guilty of female genital mutilation (FGM) in the UK. The woman was convicted after the Old Bailey heard she tried to […]
President Donald Trump has yielded to political pressure to end the longest US government shutdown in history. After 35 days, he backed a deal to fund federal agencies for three weeks, but it includes none […]
Barely 24 hours after Chief Justice of Nigeria (CJN) Justice Walter Onnoghen was controversially suspended, the United States has reacted. Speaking via a statement on Saturday, the US embassy in Nigeria said it had taken […]
Naomi Osaka has won her second straight Grand Slam tournament by beating Petra Kvitova in the most dramatic of Australian Open finals. In a big-hitting, high-quality affair on Saturday night, Osaka missed three consecutive match […]
Michel Legrand has died at the age of 86, his publicist has confirmed. The French composer, who won his first Oscar for his work on The Thomas Crown Affair in 1969, died in Paris. Michel […]
Two-time Finance minister and former vice-president of the World Bank, Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala has declared her readiness to lead the World Bank if nominated for the job. Speaking on the sidelines of the World Economic Forum […]
Political strategist Roger Stone, a long-time ally of President Trump, has been arrested in Florida, charged with seven counts in the Mueller probe. Mr Stone will appear in court later in the city of Fort […]
Popular U.S. singer, Chris Brown, who was arrested in Paris on Monday with two other persons on allegations of rape, has been released from police custody. The police are still investigating the case, the French […]
Gunmen killed at least eight Chadian UN peacekeepers in an attack Sunday on one of their bases in northern Mali, said a source close to the MINUSMA force. Gunmen killed at least eight Chadian UN […]
Zimbabwe has blocked Facebook, Twitter and WhatsApp messaging app amid a crackdown on days of violent protests. A coalition of local human rights groups says at least 12 people have been killed and many more […]
The Prime Minister of Burkina Faso, Paul Kaba Thieba, has resigned from office along with his entire cabinet. No reason was given for the move, which was announced in a televised statement by the country’s […]
Ivory Coast ex-strongman Laurent Gbagbo will stay behind bars until at least February despite his acquittal on charges of crimes against humanity by the International Criminal court, the tribunal said Friday. Judges in the Hague […]
Zimbabwean doctors on Thursday said they had treated almost 70 people for gunshot wounds while police rounded up hundreds after violent protests this week triggered by a steep rise in fuel prices. The protests, only […]
President Muhammadu Buhari has commiserated with the government and people of Kenya on the deadly terrorist attack on a hotel and office complex in Nairobi. Condemning the attack as “wicked, cruel and dastardly by evil […]
Kenya’s President on Wednesday said security forces had killed all four militants who stormed an upscale hotel complex in Nairobi the previous day, in an attack that killed no fewer than 14 people. Uhuru Kenyatta […]
Rihanna is suing her father over his use of their last name for a business. In the lawsuit filed Tuesday in federal court in Los Angeles, Rihanna, whose full name is Robyn Rihanna Fenty, says […]
Gabon’s President Ali Bongo has returned to his country just over a week after an attempted coup. President Bongo had been in Morocco, where he was seeking treatment after reportedly suffering a stroke in October […]
Prime Minister Theresa May’s Brexit deal has been rejected by 230 votes – the largest defeat for a sitting government in history. MPs voted by 432 votes to 202 to reject the deal, which sets […]
Several people have been killed during protests in Zimbabwe after the government more than doubled the price of fuel overnight. Hundreds more were arrested as demonstrators took to the streets in the cities of Harare […]
Theresa May has urged MPs to back her Brexit deal “for the country’s sake” as Tuesday’s Commons vote looms closer. She warned of “paralysis in Parliament” if the deal is rejected and said trust in […]
Egypt’s Al-Azhar university on Sunday said it had expelled a female student after she appeared in a video hugging a male colleague, accusing her of undermining the school’s reputation. The video, which went viral earlier […]
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