South Africa’s former president, F.W. De Klerk on Monday retracted the controversial submission he made earlier this month saying apartheid was not a crime against humanity, and apologized to the nation. De...

The official death toll from the new coronavirus in China named COVID-19 hit 1,868 on Tuesday after another 98 people died, mostly in Hubei and Wuhan where the virus emerged in December. Liu Zhiming, the...

 The Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) is determined to find solutions to the ongoing border closure by Nigeria. ECOWAS’ fifteen member countries met on Saturday in Ouagadougou to...

US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo is currently in Senegal to  seek out a positive vision for US cooperation with Africa. Pompeo arrived in the Senegalese capital, Dakar on Saturday with his wife, Suzan...

Japan has suffered its worst quarterly GDP contraction in more than five years, with a tax hike and a deadly typhoon taking a toll on the world’s third-largest economy. The nation’s gross domestic...

The death toll from China’s corona virus epidemic neared 1,400 on Friday with six medical workers among the victims. The National Health Commission said 121 more deaths were recorded yesterday, as...

Malawi’s Constitutional Court on Wednesday threw out an appeal by President Peter Mutharika to suspend the enforcement of the annulment of the last presidential elections. The court ruled that the first...

A new form of virus having almost no recognisable genes has been discovered by scientists in Brazil. This “mysterious” virus collected from amoebae in an artificial lake in Brazil was considerably...

The World Health Organization has named the new coronavirus as Covid-19. “We now have a name for the disease and it’s Covid-19,” WHO chief, Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus told reporters in...

The Pentagon on Monday said that 109 U.S service members were diagnosed with traumatic brain injuries as after effects of the Iranian ballistic missile attack on a U.S military base in Iraq last month. Iran’s...

Malawi’s President Peter Mutharika and the country’s electoral commission have formally filed an appeal against a court ruling that overturned his election victory last year. After six months of hearings...

African leaders on Sunday condemned US President Donald Trump’s Mideast peace plan as illegitimate, taking advantage of an African Union summit to voice solidarity with “the Palestinian cause”. AU...

Mourning relatives of 29 people murdered by a disgruntled soldier in Thailand held Buddhist prayer ceremonies Monday, as questions are still left unanswered  over how and why the shooting spree happened. Authorities...

The  coronavirus outbreak has now claimed  722 lives according to reports this Saturday. The virus has also now claimed its first foreign victim, a US citizen aged 60 who died on Thursday in the city...

President Donald Trump on Friday called on Congress to “expunge” his impeachment for abuse of power following his acquittal in the Senate. “Should they expunge impeachment in the House? They should...

President of Equatorial Guinea, Teodoro Obiang Nguema Mbasogo has announced that his country will donate $2m (£1.5m) to aid  China battle the coronavirus outbreak. The decision was made at a cabinet...

President Donald Trump said on Thursday that US forces have killed Qassim al-Rimi, the leader of al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP), in an operation inside Yemen. The jihadist leader had...

NASA astronaut Christina Koch returned to Earth on Thursday morning after 328 days in space, a record for the longest single spaceflight by a woman and another in a string of recent achievements by female...

The death toll from a new coronavirus in mainland China jumped by 73 to 563 on Thursday, its third-record daily rise. Hubei province, the epicentre of the epidemic, reported 70 new deaths on Wednesday...

The United States Senate just voted to acquit President Donald Trump of charges of abuse of power and obstruction of Congress — bringing an end to a five-month saga that began with a whistleblower’s...