The United States passed the grim milestone of 200,000 deaths from COVID-19 yesterday with cases rising nationally and more controversy roiling the country’s response. The bleak milestone, by far...

France has created an important diplomatic upset that has kept the world guessing. She has recalled her ambassador to Cote d’ Ivoire, Gilles Huberson only few weeks before the country’s elections. Protesters...

Mali’s ruling junta said on Wednesday that it is making moves to appoint an interim president.  This comes after West African leaders imposed economic sanctions after the coup. ECOWAS leaders had given...

Mr Yoshihide Suga, a seasoned politician has been elected as Japan’s new Prime Minister following a vote in the country’s parliament on Wednesday, confirming him as leader of the world’s...

The United Arab Emirates (UAE) and Bahrain have signed agreements to normalise relations with Israel in a strategic realignment of Middle Eastern countries against Iran. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu...

A huge blaze broke out in the port of Beirut on Thursday, just weeks after a massive blast at the same site laid waste to the capital city, killing nearly 200 people. The cause of the fire was not immediately...

United States President Donald Trump has been nominated for the 2021 Nobel Peace Prize. The nomination was submitted by Christian Tybring-Gjedde, a member of the Norwegian Parliament. He nominated Trump...

India has surpassed Brazil to become the country with the second highest number of coronavirus cases. India recorded more than 90,000 cases overnight, bringing the number of infections in the country...

Ibrahim Boubacar Keïta, the Malian president ousted in a military coup last month, was hospitalized late Tuesday at a private clinic. The former President’s actual ailment was not immediately known...

Former Indian President, Pranab Mukherjee has died at the age of 84. His death was announced via the twitter page of his son, Abhijit Mukherjee. He tweeted “With a heavy heart, this is to inform...

Shinzo Abe, the longest-serving Japanese prime minister in history, has resigned, citing health reasons. “Even though there is one year to go in my tenure and there are challenges to be met, I have...

US President, Donald Trump formally accepted the Republican nomination for president on Thursday, closing out the final night of the Republican National Convention on the South Lawn of the White House. Facing...

The military coup leaders in Mali have released ousted President Ibrahim Boubacar Keita from detention, a spokesman for the junta, Djibrilla Maiga said on Thursday. The junta, which calls itself the National...

Prime minister-designate Hichem Mechichi unveiled Tunisia’s second government in six months on Tuesday. He had said that he wanted a team dominated by independent technocrats, to “present...

White House counsellor Kellyanne Conway announced Sunday evening she will leave her post at the end of August to focus on her family. Known for what she described as the administration’s use of “alternative...

Kamala Harris on Wednesday became the first black woman to accept nomination for the office of  vice president of the United States from a major political party. Speaking from an empty convention hall,...

Joe Biden has been officially declared the Democratic Party’s presidential nominee, thereby making him their challenger to President Donald Trump in the November election. In a virtual roll call...

The Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) has suspended Mali from all decision-making bodies of ECOWAS and placed economic and financial embargo on the country following the military takeover...

Mali’s President, Ibrahim Boubacar Keita has resigned from office under duress from mutinying soldiers who yesterday, seized him from his home and took him to a location outside the capital, Bamako....

India’s death toll from the coronavirus hit 50,000 on Monday, with more than 900 new fatalities reported in 24 hours, according to health ministry data released on Monday. India had  last week overtook...