Ethiopia’s Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed has gone to direct the war effort from the front lines, state-affiliated media reported. PM Ahmed had on Tuesday vowed to lead his country’s army ‘from the battlefront’ after Tigray rebels threatened to march on Addis Ababa. Deputy Prime Minister Demeke Mekonnen Hassen will...
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The son and namesake of the Philippines’ former dictator Ferdinand Marcos said Tuesday he took a cocaine test after President Rodrigo Duterte accused an unnamed presidential candidate of using the illegal drug. Marcos Jr, who is among the frontrunners seeking to succeed Duterte in 2022, said in a statement...
The United Nations High Commission for Refugees (UNHCR) has charged the ECOWAS Court of Justice to save 5.5 million possible displaced persons in West Africa. Regional Director of UNHCR West & Central Africa, Ms. Millicent Mutuli, said the Court, through its advocacy, held the key to curbing the rising...
No fewer than 46 people, most of them tourists from North Macedonia, died as a bus crashed in flames on a highway in western Bulgaria on Tuesday, officials said. Children were among the victims, and seven survivors needing treatment for burns were rushed to hospital in the capital Sofia,...
Former South Korean President Chun Doo-hwan, whose iron-fisted rule of the country following a 1979 military coup sparked massive democracy protests, died on Tuesday at the age of 90, his former press aide said. Chun had multiple myeloma, a blood cancer which was in remission, and his health had...
Sudan’s Prime Minister Abdalla Hamdok said on Monday that maintaining the economic gains from the past two years was among the reasons he had decided to return to his post, under a deal with the military nearly a month after he was removed in a coup. In an interview...
The Vice President of Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) Ms. Finda Koroma has said the only successful way to fight terrorism within the region is to attack its root causes. Ms. Koroma said this at the inauguration of the Early Warning Study on the Spillover of Violent...
Police on Monday reported that a group of armed gangsters attacked the police station of Malamulele in South Africa’s Limpopo province. According to police reports, the gunmen took rifles, pistols as well as an unknown quantity of ammunition, and forced some of the officers into one of their official...
The Speaker of the ECOWAS Parliament, Dr Sidie Tunis, has called on presidents and leaders of West African Nations to ensure obedience to the Community Court of Justice’s ruling. Giving a remark at the opening of the International Conference to mark the 20th anniversary of the court, Tunis said...
Five people were killed and 40 others wounded after a vehicle plowed into a Christmas parade in the US state of Wisconsin on Sunday, police said. Officials said a red SUV broke through barricades at the Christmas parade in Waukesha, a suburb of Milwaukee just after 4:30 pm (2230...
The President of the Community Court of Justice, ECOWAS, Justice Edward Amoako Asante, has described the court as a pace setter for other regional courts, particularly those in Africa. Asante spoke prior to the opening of an International Conference, organized by the Court in Lome, Togo, and dedicated to...
Inmates have escaped en masse from a crowded old prison in the western Democratic Republic of Congo, officials said Sunday, with at least one guard reported killed. Two armed men arrived at the entrance to Matadi prison, subdued the guards and opened the main gate, allowing a large number...
Sudan’s removed Prime Minister Abdalla Hamdok was reinstated on Sunday after he and Abdel Fattah Al-Burhan, General Commander of the Sudanese Armed Force, signed a political declaration to end the current political crisis, the official Sudan TV reported. The deal stipulates that Hamdok is to form a government in...
At least 15 people drowned on Sunday while crossing a flooded causeway in Myanmar to reach a Buddhist temple for a festival, rescue workers told AFP. The tragedy unfolded as thousands of worshippers tried to reach the Kyeik Hne pagoda, which lies on a rocky outcrop around three kilometres...
The International Organization for Migration (IOM) has said more than 75 illegal immigrants have drowned at sea off the coast of western Libya, while trying to reach Europe. “Over 75 migrants drowned on Wednesday after departing from Libya according to 15 survivors rescued by fishermen and brought to Zuwara,”...
Afghanistan’s Taliban authorities said Saturday they had begun paying government employees who had not received a paycheck since the Islamists seized power and triggered a major financial crisis. Most government employees have yet to return to work and many had not been paid for months even before the Taliban...
The United States government believes now is the time for major geopolitical players across the world to start treating Africa as one of them. U.S. Secretary of State, Mr Antony Blinken, stated this on Friday while addressing members of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) in Abuja....
An extremely rare original copy of the US constitution was sold Thursday for $43 million — a world record for a historical document at auction, Sotheby’s said. It is one of only 11 known surviving copies of the US charter, signed on September 17, 1787, at Philadelphia’s Independence Hall...
Sudanese security forces shot dead at least 15 anti-coup protesters and wounded dozens more on Wednesday, medics said, in the bloodiest day since the military’s October 25 takeover. The fatalities – all in Khartoum, especially its northern districts – raised to 39 the death toll from unrest since the...