Almost two million cases of COVID-19 were reported in Europe last week, the most in a single week in that region since the pandemic started, according to the World Health Organisation (WHO). Almost 27,000 deaths were reported in the continent last week, more than half of all COVID-19 deaths...
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Tanzanian Prime Minister Kassim Majaliwa has said that over 10,361 villages out of the country’s 12,317 villages have been connected to electricity by October 2021. Adjourning a two-week parliamentary session in the capital Dodoma, Majaliwa said the number of villages connected to electricity was equivalent to 84.12 percent of...
French prosecutors are investigating the alleged rape of a female soldier by a fellow serviceman at the presidential palace in Paris, a source said Friday. The alleged assault took place after a going-away reception for a general and two others that President Macron attended in July, according to French...
The ECOWAS Court of Justice is mulling setting up a Legal Aid Fund to assist indigent community citizens who cannot afford legal representation, a Judge of the court, Justice Dupe Atoki has disclosed. Atoki in an address at the a two-day joint retreat organised by the Court and the...
Gold futures on the COMEX division of the New York Mercantile Exchange continued to rise Thursday on higher U.S. inflation concern. The most active gold contract for December delivery rose 15.6 U.S. dollars, or 0.84 percent, to close at 1,863.9 dollars per ounce. Gold futures climbed for the sixth...
A bomb threat at the University of Southern California (USC), a leading private research university located in Los Angeles, caused an evacuation from multiple buildings of the university campus on Thursday, authorities said. “Grace Ford Salvatori Hall, Sample Hall and Wallis Annenberg Hall are being evacuated due to a...
The UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) says as more people flee violence, insecurity and the effects of climate change, the number of the forcibly displaced has now exceeded 84 million globally. UNHCR disclosed this in a new data- Mid-Year Trends report- released on Thursday. UNHCR’s Mid-Year Trends report,...
First group of senegal medical experts expected to assist Sierra Leone in treating victims of last week’s horrific tanker explosion has arrived. Recall that the World Health Organization (WHO) evacuated a group of ten Senegalese doctors as part of the international Emergency Medical Teams (EMT) requested by the West...
FW de Klerk, South Africa’s last white president, has died aged 85, his foundation announced on Thursday. “It is with the deepest sadness that the FW de Klerk Foundation must announce that former President FW de Klerk died peacefully at his home in Fresnaye earlier this morning following his...
The United States on Wednesday warned Russia against making another “serious mistake” on Ukraine as it sought clarity about troop movements near the border. Welcoming Ukraine’s foreign minister to Washington, Secretary of State Antony Blinken said that the United States was “concerned with reports of the unusual Russian activity...
Ghana’s parliament on Thursday hold the first public hearing on a new law that would make it illegal to be gay or to advocate for gay rights, its press office said. The so-called family values bill is currently before the Committee on Constitutional, Legal and Parliamentary Affairs, which said...
At least 11 students were injured on Wednesday when an improvised explosive device (IED) exploded on a university campus in Cameroon’s restive Anglophone region of Southwest, according to witnesses and authorities. The explosion in the University of Buea happened at about 3:30 p.m. local time in one of the...
No fewer than 70 drivers working for the United Nations and international aid organisations were detained in northern Ethiopia, a UN spokesperson confirmed to dpa on Wednesday. The drivers were apprehended on Nov. 3, in the city of Semera in the Afar Region, the official said, adding that the...
The UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) has said no fewer than 11,000 people had fled into neighbouring Uganda from the eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo clashes since Sunday. UNHCR spokesperson, Shabia Mantoo said in Geneva, on Tuesday, that the figure (11,000) represented the largest refugee influx in...
A US woman and her husband are suing a fertility clinic they say implanted a stranger’s baby, lawyers said Monday. When Daphna and Alexander Cardinale first saw their newborn, conceived through IVF, they noticed the baby girl had jet-black hair and a much darker complexion than anyone in their...
Iran’s Army intercepted two U.S. drones and warned them to stay aloof from the zones where it was carrying out the Zolfaqar-1400 military drills. The army’s media bureau said in a statement on Tuesday, that the U.S. aircraft, including MQ-9 and RQ-4 drones, intruded into the country’s Flight Information...
No fewer than 26 school children aged between five and six burnt to death on Monday when their straw and wood classrooms caught fire in southern Niger, seven months after a similar tragedy in the capital Niamey. “Right now, we have 26 dead and 13 injured, four of them...
By DAVID IORJA, Abuja – The Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) has resolved to maintain the sanctions it imposed on Guinea, while imposing similar ones against the Transitional Government in Mali. The resolution was part of the outcomes of the ECOWAS Extraordinary summit of the Authority of...
At least 18 people died when an artisanal goldmine collapsed in southern Niger near the border with Nigeria, the local mayor said on Monday. “The provisional death toll is 18 people, whom we buried this morning,” Adamou Gueraou, mayor of Dan-Issa district, told AFP of Sunday’s disaster. “There were...