Burkina Faso’s government denied that the army had seized control of the country on Sunday after exchanges of gunfire took place at multiple army barracks, including two in the capital. “Information on social media would have people believe there was an army takeover,” government spokesman Alkassoum Maiga said in...
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The UK government and the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) are set for a court battle over a story the broadcaster wants to air which would reportedly identify a spy. The Telegraph has reported that the programme would reveal the identity of the intelligence worker operating overseas, and it is...
At least 70 people were killed in an air strike on a prison as Yemen’s long-running conflict suffered a dramatic escalation Friday that drew condemnation from UN chief Antonio Guterres. The Huthi rebels released gruesome video footage showing bodies in the rubble and mangled corpses from the attack, which...
A truck carrying explosives collided with a motorcyle in western Ghana on Thursday, causing an immense conflagration and the “loss of lives”, President Ghana Nana Akufo-Addo has said. The accident happened around noon in Apiate, near the city of Bogoso some 300 kilometres (180 miles) west of the mineral-rich...
Rodolphe Jaar, a key suspect in the murder of former Haitian President Jovenel Moise, was on Thursday extradited to the United States from the Dominican Republic, media reported. Earlier, media reported that Jaar, a Haitian businessman and convicted drug trafficker, was arrested in the Dominican Republic. On Wednesday, the...
A stampede at a Christian prayer gathering in Liberia’s capital Monrovia has killed at least 29 people, police said on Thursday, adding that the death toll may rise. The disaster occurred on Wednesday night or during the early hours of Thursday morning, according to media in the West African...
Italy’s highest court has upheld former Brazil forward Robinho’s nine-year sentence for the gang rape of a young woman, the victim’s lawyer said on Wednesday. Judges at the Court of Cassation in Rome confirmed the sentence for the offence which dates back to January 2013, when the 37-year-old was...
United States (U.S.) Secretary of State Antony Blinken was travelling to Kiev on Wednesday as part of international efforts to address the Ukraine crisis with Russia. Blinken plans to meet President Volodymyr Zelensky and his counterpart Dmytro Kuleba while in the Ukrainian capital. The aim of the visit is...
Los Angeles has been chosen by the Biden administration to host this year’s Summit of the Americas, a key gathering that U.S. officials hope would help mend diplomatic fences in the Western Hemisphere. The White House announced Tuesday night that the meeting to be held on U.S. soil for...
Authorities on Tuesday said 82 lives had been lost in a spate of severe summer weather that has seen South Africa pummeled by persistent downpours for days. The Department of Cooperative Governance and Traditional Affairs said most of the deaths were due to drownings and lightening strikes. Nkosazana Dlamini...
A nine-year-old girl was attacked and killed by a crocodile while walking on a riverside path with her sister in Indonesia’s West Sumatra province, a search official said on Tuesday. The sisters were walking home after bathing in the Batang Masang river in Agam district on Monday morning when...
The UN Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO), on Monday launched a comprehensive response plan for the Horn of Africa as more than US$ 138 million is needed to assist rural communities affected by extended drought in the region. A third consecutive year of poor rains is posing a major...
North Korea fired two suspected ballistic missiles Monday, Seoul said, its fourth weapons test this month as Pyongyang flexes its military muscle while ignoring offers of talks from the United States. Despite biting international sanctions, Pyongyang has conducted a string of weapons tests this year, including hypersonic missiles, as...
The birth rate in China plummeted to a record low last year, official data showed Monday, as analysts warn that faster-than-expected ageing could deepen economic growth concerns. Beijing has been grappling with a looming demographic crisis amid a rapidly ageing workforce, slowing economy and the country’s weakest population growth...
Mali’s former president Ibrahim Boubacar Keita, who led the West African country from 2013 until he was ousted in a coup in 2020, died at the age of 76 in the capital Bamako on Sunday, his family said. “President IBK died this morning at 0900 GMT in his home”...
A Somali government spokesman, Mohamed Ibrahim Moalimuu, was injured in a suicide car bombing in Mogadishu, the capital of Somalia on Sunday, a police source said. Police spokesman, Abdifitah Aden, said that a suicide bomber blew himself up at Moalimu’s vehicle at a busy Dabka intersection in Mogadishu. “The...
At least half a million chickens have been either killed by a bird flu outbreak in Burkina Faso or culled to prevent the virus from spreading, the West African country announced on Saturday. The outbreak of the highly pathogenic H1N1 strain of avian flu was detected late last year...
A Myanmar junta court has hit ousted civilian leader Aung San Suu Kyi with five new corruption charges related to the alleged hiring and purchase of a helicopter, sources close to the case told AFP. The Nobel laureate, 76, has been detained since the February 1 coup last year...
Uganda says the fuel shortage in some parts of the country is due to the interruption in the supply chain at the common border with Kenya. The interruption was caused by transit truck drivers who were protesting charges for COVID-19 tests at the border. Uganda’s Ministry of Energy and...