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...
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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An extremely rare original copy of the US constitution was sold Thursday for $43 million — a world record for a historical document at auction, Sotheby’s said.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...
Afghanistan’s acting Foreign Minister Amir Khan Muttaqi has written an open letter to U.S. Congress, calling on the United States to unfreeze Afghanistan’s assets, the ministry confirmed in a statement on Wednesday. “Despite the fact that following the signing of the Doha Agreement in February 2020, we no longer...
Kenyan authorities have arrested seven prison wardens following the escape of three convicts who were serving jail terms for terrorism-related crimes. Interior Cabinet Secretary Fred Matiangi said on Tuesday that preliminary investigations revealed that the escape from the heavily guarded prison facility was abetted by laxity and incompetence. “We...
Authorities in Mexico have arrested the wife of a powerful drug-trafficking cartel boss, the country’s defense ministry said on Tuesday. The ministry described Monday’s capture of Rosalinda Gonzalez, wife of Jalisco New Generation leader Nemesio Oseguera, as “a signficant blow to the financial structure of the criminal organization in...
The Taliban have arrested a man for allegedly selling dozens of women in northern Afghanistan after duping them into believing they would be marrying into money, officials said Tuesday. The man was arrested in northern Jawzjan province late on Monday, Damullah Seraj, the Taliban provincial police chief, told reporters....
Ibrahim Rotich, the husband of slain Kenyan Olympic runner, Agnes Tirop, was charged with her murder and pleaded not guilty in a Kenyan court on Tuesday. Rotich, 41, had been ordered last week to undergo a mental health test before entering a plea. Tirop was found stabbed to death...
Sudanese authorities released Al Jazeera television’s Khartoum bureau chief on Tuesday, the Qatar-based network said, two days after security forces arrested him from his home. The arrest of Al-Musalami al-Kabbashi was the latest since a military coup three weeks ago and came after tens of thousands of protesters took...
Two explosions hit Uganda’s capital Kampala on Tuesday, injuring some people in what police termed “an attack” on the city, the latest in a string of blasts targeting the country. “What we can say (is) this was an attack but who is responsible is a matter that is under...
The United States denounced Russia on Monday for conducting a “dangerous and irresponsible” missile strike that blew up one of its own satellites, creating a debris cloud that forced the International Space Station’s crew to take evasive action. Washington wasn’t informed in advance about the test, only the fourth...
A shooting near a US high school left five teenagers wounded on Monday, police said. Officers in Aurora, Colorado were called to a park near Central High School where they found five people aged between 14 and 17 had been hurt, the Aurora Police Department said. “Unknown suspect who...
At the Dubai Air Show, Boeing signed a memorandum of understanding with Ethiopian Airlines that will help the airline to bring cost savings to its maintenance operations with Boeing’s 787 landing gear exchange program. “As the fastest growing airline in Africa, much of our success depends on our ability...