Lt Col Paul-Henri Damiba, the military ruler of Burkina Faso, has been ousted by an army captain in a coup d’état. Lt Col Damiba’s inability to...
Finland will block Russians with Schengen tourist visas from entering the country at midnight (2100 GMT) on Friday, after a surge in arrivals after Moscow’s mobilisation...
An “extraordinary and resilient” African elephant who defied all odds to give birth despite being shot five times by poachers has died in Kenya’s drought-ravaged north,...
The woes of a British Member of Parliament (MP) Rupa Huq from the Labour Party are deepening by the day. She allegedly made racial comments against...
In Nigeria, the north of the country suffered from devastating floods that destroyed farmland across the region – so Adamu Garba, a rice farmer from Gombe...
An elderly woman has lamented being single and still searching because she rejected many men in the name of sacrificing her life to give her siblings...
According to statistics from the National STIs and HIV/AIDS Control Programme, a total number of 23,495 people tested positive for HIV in the first half of...
A gunman killed nine people, including five children at a school in Russia before committing suicide, according to a Russian official who revealed this on Monday....
A former justice minister, Fu Zhenghua has been sentenced to de@th for corruption involving $16 million, with a two-year reprieve, by a court in China. According...
The U.S. military said on Wednesday it had killed 27 fighters from the al Shabaab militant group in an air strike in Somalia’s central Hiran region....
On Wednesday, President Vladimir Putin issued Russia’s first mobilisation since World War II and backed a plan to annex swathes of Ukraine, warning the West he...
Nigerian students’ agitation over the ongoing strike by the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) might paralyse economic activities at the Apapa port in Lagos on...
A local official confirmed on Sunday that the chief adviser and confidant to South Africa’s new Zulu King MisuZulu kaZwelithini have been killed after attending a traditional ceremony. Dumisani Blasius Khumalo’s...
The Lebanese pound fell on the black market Monday to a new low against the US dollar, as the severe economic downturn has sparked bank hold-ups...
Students on Monday morning blocked access roads to the Murtala Muhammad International Airport in Lagos, in protest of the seven-month industrial action by the Academic Staff...
A man has been arrested after he approached Queen Elizabeth II‘s coffin in Westminster Hall with a cigarette lighter, according to the BBC. The man was...