China has said it would retaliate after US President Donald Trump ordered an end to preferential trade treatment for Hong Kong. In a statement on Wednesday, China’s foreign ministry said it “firmly...

The joint United Nations and African Union mission in Darfur (UNAMID) Tuesday condemned violent incidents in North Darfur State which left nine dead and 20 wounded. “UNAMID is deeply concerned about...

American biotech company, Moderna, is aiming to begin its final phase of testing for its coronavirus vaccine on July 27. Moderna is the first company in the United States to announce an estimated start...

Andrzej Duda, Poland’s incumbent president, has narrowly won the presidential election as the results from over 99 percent of polling stations released so far show. The remaining uncounted votes...

Zindzi Mandela, daughter of former South African president, Nelson Mandela,is dead. The spokesman of the ruling African National Congress (ANC) made the disclosure on Monday. She was Nelson Mandela’s...

Brazilian President, Jair Bolsonaro, on Tuesday announced that he has tested positive for COVID-19. The President  also confirmed that he is taking hydroxychloroquine as well as azithromycin as treatment. Bolsonaro...

More than 500,000 people worldwide have now lost their lives as a result of the coronavirus pandemic, according to John Hopkins University in the US. John Hopkins also reports that more than 10 million...

An Algerian criminal court has sentenced a former prime minister and erstwhile energy minister to prison on corruption charges. Former Prime Minister Ahmed Ouyahia was sentenced to 12 years while erstwhile...

Ghanaian President Nana Akufo-Ado has apologised to Nigeria over the demolition of a building on the premises of the Nigerian High Commission in Accra, Ghana. A statement by the Senior Special Assistant...

Burundi has sworn-in Evariste Ndayishimiye who won the May 20 elections as President. The event which took place at the state Ingoma in Gitega, the political capital of the country was largely attended...

North Korea blew up an inter-Korean liaison office building just north of the heavily armed border with South Korea on Tuesday as tensions escalate on the Korean Peninsula. South Korea’s Unification...

According to news reports, Burundi will swear in president-elect Evariste Ndayishimiye on Thursday, June 18. The development is coming a week after  the death of outgoing President, Pierre Nkurunziza. The...

An Atlanta police officer has been fired and another placed on administrative duty following the fatal shooting of a black man, the police department announced early Sunday. Rayshard Brooks, 27, was shot dead...

Olena, the wife of Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy, said on Friday she had tested positive for coronavirus, but her husband and their two children had tested negative. “Today I received a...

One of the four former Minneapolis police officers who were charged over the death of George Floyd was released on bail on Wednesday. The former police officer released, Thomas Lane, 37, had been held...

The United States Senate on Tuesday unanimously confirmed General Charles Brown Jr as Chief of Staff of the US Air Force, making him the first Black officer to lead one of the nation’s military services. Vice...

Police affidavit on Wednesday says Lesotho’s former prime minister, Thomas Thabane and his wife made a down payment of $24,000 to assassins to kill his estranged wife, Lipolelo three years ago. Thomas...

George Floyd, the African- American whose killing by police inspired worldwide protests calling for an end to racism and police brutality, was buried in a cemetery on Tuesday in his hometown of Houston,...

Swedish prosecutors on Wednesday named their main suspect in the 1986 killing of Prime Minister Olof Palme. Prosecutors also closed the probe into the murder case. The suspect was named as Stig Engstrom,...

Burundi’s President Pierre Nkurunziza, aged 55, has died after suffering a cardiac arrest, the government of Burundi has said in a statement. He was admitted to hospital on Saturday after feeling...