Suspected jihadists killed at least 19 gendarmes and a civilian in an attack early Sunday in northern Burkina Faso, officials said. The pre-dawn attack, one of the deadliest to hit Burkinabe defence and security forces since jihadist violence erupted six years ago, targeted a “detachment of the Inata gendarmerie”,...
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American business magazine, Forbes, says 44 newcomers joined its list of 400 America’s richest people in 2021, a post on its verified Instagram page @Forbes has revealed. According to the magazine, the 400 richest Americans are now 40 per cent richer than they were last year—worth a collective $4.5...
Nearly 200 nations came together Saturday on a global deal to combat climate change after two weeks of painful negotiation, but fell short of what science says is needed to contain dangerous temperature rises. Rich countries stood accused of failing at the COP26 summit in Glasgow to deliver much-needed...
Ferocious clashes have left 68 inmates dead in an Ecuador prison, police said Saturday, in the latest unrest at a Guayaquil jail that was the scene of a September riot which killed 119 prisoners. “According to preliminary information, some 68 prisoners were killed and another 25 were wounded,” the...
A U.S. appeals court has upheld its stay on President Joe Biden’s vaccine-or-test mandate for companies with at least 100 employees. A three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 5th Circuit in New Orleans issued the ruling on Friday and barred the Occupational Safety and Health...
Nine junior high school students drowned Friday after two canoes capsized on a river in the Northern Region of Ghana, police confirmed Saturday. Bernard Baba Ananga, Northern Regional Crime Officer of the Ghana Police Service, told Xinhua that about 31 students were on the canoes, which they used to...
The Moroccan police seized on Saturday 3.21 tonnes of cannabis near the city of Guelmim. A statement issued by the Moroccan police said five people aged 34 to 47 were arrested for their alleged links to an international drug trafficking network. Many materials were seized, including two inflatable boats,...
Kenyan anti-terrorism police officers said Saturday they are interrogating a terror suspect who was arrested at a shopping center in Nairobi. The police said the suspect, identified as Ali Abdullahi Hussein, had approached a police officer on patrol at around 2:00 a.m. and wanted to seek information about a...
Former US President Donald Trump’s longtime advisor Steve Bannon was indicted on Friday for refusing to testify to the congressional committee investigating the Capitol riot, the Justice Department announced. A federal grand jury returned the indictment in a significant victory for the House Select Committee to Investigate the January...
Tesla CEO Elon Musk sold more than $6.9 billion worth of shares in the electric carmaker this week, according to regulatory filings released on Friday. The 50-year-old South African billionaire sold more than 5.1 million Tesla shares, of which about 4.2 million were held in a trust. His massive...
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...
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...