Mali hit by unprecedented wave of rights violations, says NGO
Dakar – This year is set to be the deadliest recorded in Mali, with an unprecedented rise in attacks... Read more
25 Nov, 2022
Ottawa rolls out CAN$1.6 billion plan to adapt to climate change
Ottawa – The Canadian government on Thursday unveiled a CAN$1.6 billion (US$1.2 billion) plan to help the country deal... Read more
25 Nov, 2022
India’s top court to weigh same-sex marriage recognition
New Delhi – India’s top court decided Friday to proceed with a case weighing legal recognition of same-sex marriages,... Read more
25 Nov, 2022
Nigeria gunmen kill three policemen, kidnap oil executive
Port Harcourt – Gunmen have killed three police escorts and abducted a local oil executive in southern Nigeria’s petroleum-producing... Read more
25 Nov, 2022
Struggling Ghana plans tax rise, debt swap to secure IMF aid
Accra – Ghana’s finance minister, Kenneth Ofori-Atta, presented the 2023 budget to parliament on Thursday, hiking tax and planning... Read more
25 Nov, 2022
Comoros seeks life term for ex-president Sambi for high treason
Moroni – Prosecutors in the Comoros on Thursday sought a life sentence for former president Ahmed Abdallah Sambi who... Read more
25 Nov, 2022
Algeria sentences scores to death over forest fire lynching: media
Algiers – An Algerian court on Thursday sentenced 49 people to death over the lynching of a man falsely... Read more
25 Nov, 2022
‘Army of orphans’: The price of South Africa’s AIDS scourge
Johannesburg – At the age of 13, Ndumiso Gamede was orphaned when his parents died at the peak of... Read more
25 Nov, 2022
South Africa’s central bank imposes another steep rate hike
Johannesburg – South Africa’s central bank on Thursday raised its benchmark interest rate again by a steep 0.75 percentage... Read more
25 Nov, 2022
Experts warn against bringing rebels into army to end DRC fighting
Kinshasa – Democratic Republic of Congo’s (DRC) army once absorbed rebels into its ranks as a way to end... Read more
25 Nov, 2022
