Police in the city of Wuzhong, northwest China’s Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region, have dismantled a money-laundering ring connected to more than 200 telecom and online fraud cases. According to the Police, more than 40 suspects were arrested in a raid on Dec. 3. The local police began investigation in...
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The death toll from the eruption of Indonesia’s Mount Semeru volcano rose to 34 on Tuesday, the national disaster agency said, as aid was rushed to the affected region. The mountain on the island of Java had thundered to life on Saturday, ejecting volcanic ash high into the sky...
A special court in Benin on Tuesday sentenced one of the country’s opposition figures, Joel Aivo, to 10 years in prison after a trial on treason and corruption charges. The academic, who had been held for eight months, had said the charges of plotting against the state and money...
A Kenyan police officer on Tuesday shot dead six people, including his wife, and wounded two others before turning the gun on himself, police said. The rampage in the capital Nairobi triggered protests by angry residents who blocked the road with burning tyres. Police said the AK-47-rifle-wielding officer first...
Pope Francis on Monday wraps up a landmark three-day visit to Greece which has been marked by his calls for better treatment of migrants in Europe and a visit to asylum seekers on the island of Lesbos. After a last meeting with young people at a Catholic school, the...
Sales of weapons and military services by the world’s 100 biggest arms companies reached a record $531bn in 2020, an increase of 1.3 per cent in real terms compared with the previous year, according to the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI). The Swedish think tank said 2020 marked...
A court in Myanmar has sentenced the country’s deposed leader Aung San Suu Kyi to four years in jail, according to media reports. A spokesman for Myanmar’s military told the AFP news agency that Aung San Suu Kyi was found guilty on Monday of incitement and of violating COVID-19...
At least 12 soldiers and “dozens of terrorists” have been killed in a battle in western Niger’s conflict-wracked “three borders” zone. The defence ministry announced in a statement on Sunday that another eight soldiers were wounded in the clash with “hundreds of armed terrorists” five kilometres (three miles) from...
Alieu Momar Njie, Chairman of the Independent Electoral Commission (IEC) of The Gambia, has declared on Sunday that Adama Barrow, the leader of the National People’s Party (NPP), as the winner of the presidential election held on Saturday. Barrow amassed 457,519 votes, around 53 percent of the total votes...
Gambians were waiting Sunday to find out the winner of the first presidential election in the West African nation since former dictator Yahya Jammeh fled into exile. Results from only around 15 of the country’s 53 electoral districts have so far been published online by the state broadcaster since...
CNN fired veteran anchor and correspondent Chris Cuomo, the cable news channel said Saturday, amid an investigation into his involvement with helping defend brother Andrew Cuomo, the former New York governor, against sexual misconduct allegations. Chris Cuomo had been suspended from CNN over the matter just days before his...
The Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) Commission has presented its 2022 Draft Budget of 393,612,400 Units of Account (UA) before the ECOWAS Parliament, in Abuja. The budget is targeted at tackling, COVID-19 pandemic, security and infrastructure challenges, , promoting democracy and good governance in the sub-region. The...
Sudan’s military will exit politics after elections scheduled for 2023, General Abdel Fattah al-Burhan told Reuters in an interview on Saturday, adding that the deposed former ruling party would have no role in the transition. Following a military takeover led by Burhan in late October that upended Sudan’s transition...
Gambian President Adama Barrow had a narrow early lead after Saturday’s presidential election, according to provisional results from the first few constituencies to be verified by the electoral commission. In a test of stability and democratic progress, the small West African country is holding its first election since former...
Panelists at the ongoing 2021 African Economic Conference (AEC) say tackling illicit fund outflows, improving management of indigenous resources and investment in human capital can help rebuild Africa following the COVID-19 pandemic. The panelists who are economic policy makers said that urgent reforms were needed to help rebuild the...
Russian President Vladimir Putin and his US counterpart Joe Biden are scheduled to hold talks by video conference on Tuesday, the Kremlin said, as tensions rise over Ukraine. Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said the conversation will take place in the evening Russia time and the two leaders will determine...
The Gambia holds presidential election on Saturday with more than 900,000 registered voters expected to cast their votes across the country. It is the first presidential election since the defeat of the long-term ruler Yahya Jammeh in 2016 by the current leader Adama Barrow. The Independent Electoral Commission (IEC),...
Algerian President Abdelmadjid Tebboune said on Saturday that Algeria will launch new reforms to boost the industry sector for economic recovery. “It is time to establish an industry sector based on coherent and strong foundations, which serves the national interests, and will become one of the pillars of comprehensive...
African governments have been urged to decentralise power and make resources available to local councils in order to spur development. Nobel Memorial Prize laureate Roger Myerson, an economist, gave the advise while speaking at the on-going African Economic Conference, said the devolution of power to the local councils could...
With many African countries struggling from the shackles of debt servicing amid downward economic trend occasioned by COVID-19, a ‘New Deal’ worth 7.1 trillion dollars has been suggested as the only solution. This was the position of Mr Antonio Pedro, Deputy Executive Secretary, Economic Commission for Africa (ECA) at...