US Sanctions Top Malian Officials Over Wagner Ties
The US has announced sanctions against three top Malian officials said to be co-ordinating the spread of Russian private military firm Wagner in the West African country. They are Mali’s…
The US has announced sanctions against three top Malian officials said to be co-ordinating the spread of Russian private military firm Wagner in the West African country. They are Mali’s…
Ghana’s Central Bank has increased key interest rates 30% to curb the country’s soaring inflation. This is a 0.5% increase. The hike was announced on Monday at the end of…
Voters in Spain are headed for the polls on Sunday in an election that could make the country the latest European Union member to swing to the populist right,…
Dangote Cement has completed the first tranche of its share buy back programme. The share buy back programme was announced early July. In a corporate notice filed on the Nigerian…
Ghana has launched an HIV Self-Testing programme as part of efforts to curb the spread of the virus in the country. The kit will make it possible for Ghanaians to…
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has been hospitalised for an emergency procedure to receive a pacemaker ahead of a key parliamentary vote on his controversial judicial overhaul plan. Netanyahu’s…
Sign language has become South Africa’s 12th official language. President Cyril Ramaphosa formally approved the Sign Language Bill into law during a ceremony in Pretoria. Some of the country’s other…
Guinness World Records (GWR) is encouraging more Africans to follow in the footsteps of Nigerians when it comes to trying to break records. Though it comes with a warning that…
Women in India’s northeastern state of Manipur have attacked the house of the main suspect in a sexual assault case that has enraged the nation, police said. The person…
Sweden’s ambassadors have been summoned in various countries following a second event held to desecrate the Quran, Islam’s holy book, was held in Sweden. The condemnations and moves came following…
Ghana’s Supreme Court has dismissed an application to stop parliament from considering a controversial anti-LGBT bill. In a unanimous decision on Wednesday, the court said that the applicant, an…
Netflix has debuted its first original African animation series, Supa Team 4. The eight-part series is set in a futuristic version of Lusaka, Zambia’s capital, and tells the story…
Authorities in the western Ethiopian region of Gambella have imposed a night-time curfew after scores were killed in fresh violence. The curfew prohibits movement between 19:00 and 06:00. The regional…
Former Manchester City defender Benjamin Mendy has signed for Ligue 1 side Lorient five days after being cleared of rape. The left-back, 29, whose City contract expired in the summer,…
Ethiopia is allowing people to access Facebook, Telegram, TikTok and YouTube for the first time in more than five months. The blackout was imposed on 9 February this year after…
Schools in Kenya’s capital Nairobi and the coastal town of Mombasa have been shut indefinitely as three days of nationwide cost-of-living protests kicked off on Wednesday. Last week’s violent protests…
Nigerian World Record Holder, Tobi Amusan Charged Over Doping Rules A top Nigerian athlete, Tobi Amusan, says she has been charged with breaking anti-doping rules. Amusan is the world record…
The beheading of two people by suspected Islamist militants is causing alarm in northern Mozambique as such atrocities have become less common in recent years. This is partly because regional…
Perhaps if you’re a descendant of the Yoruba race, or possibly belong to another tribe and have lived with the Yoruba for a long time, you would have come across…
Several heads of state and activists have reiterated the need to protect the gender equality gains made so far globally, at the opening of the Women Deliver conference in Rwanda.…