Kenyan authorities arrested the head of a government agency on Monday in a corruption investigation into the theft of nearly $100 million-Ca rare move to hold officials to account for graft in a nation...

Although the exact circumstances surrounding their deaths were not immediately clear, at least twelve people were killed in one of Cameroon’s Anglophone regions when separatists clashed with soldiers...

Although his own record on civil rights has come under question, President Donald Trump of the United States on Thursday posthumously honoured Jack Johnson, the first undisputed heavyweight boxing champion...

At least 15 persons were wounded on Thursday night when two unidentified men walked into the Bombay Bhel restaurant in the Canadian city of Mississauga, Ontario.   According to a tweet by the Peel Regional...

North Korea on Friday said it was still open to talks with the United States after President Donald Trump called off a summit with leader Kim Jong-Un, saying it hoped the ‘Trump formula’ could resolve...

US President, Donald Trump has announced the cancellation of the much expected talks with North Korean leader, Kim Jong-Un . In cancelling the talks, Trump said he was waiting for the North Korean leader...

South Africa’s President, Cyril Ramaphosa has announced that he will donate half of his presidential salary towards a fund that has been established in memory of Nelson Mandela, the country’s first...

An Australian archbishop on Tuesday became the first most senior Roman Catholic cleric in the world to be convicted for covering up child sex abuse. Magistrate Robert Stone handed down the verdict against...

The Brazilian government says 27 migrants from West Africa have been rescued off the coast of Maranhao in the northern region of the country. Officials from Maranhao said a fishing boat intercepted the...

Ahmed Abdallah Sambi, a former president of Comoros and a critic of President Azali Assoumani has been placed under house arrest in order to preserve public order and peace. A Monday statement from the...

In the latest shooting to rock the United States of America still shaken by the massacre at a Florida high school in February, a gun-wielding assailant on Friday afternoon left behind multiple casualties...

  Sergei Skripal, the Russian ex-spy who was left in a critical condition by a nerve agent attack in Salisbury, UK for more than two months has been discharged from the Salisbury District Hospital...

A court in Zambia on Thursday sentenced the son of former President Frederick Chiluba to eight months imprisonment with hard labour for stealing a mobile phone. Frederick Chiluba Jr. was found guilty...

North Korea has threatened to cancel the much anticipated summit between its leader, Kim Jong-Un and President Donald Trump of the United States over Washington’s insistence that Pyongyang unilaterally...

United States First Lady, Melania Trump on Monday underwent kidney surgery at Walter Reed National Military Centre near Washington DC. According to a statement released by her office and signed by Stephanie...

Israel prepared a series of festivities to celebrate the opening of the new United States Embassy in Jerusalem despite Palestinian protests, raising fears of a further outbreak of violence. After marking...

An Indonesian family of five on Monday detonated explosives outside the police headquarters in Surabaya, a day after members of another family carried out coordinated suicide bombings on three churches...

Malaysians on Thursday elected 92-year-old opposition politician, Mahathir Mohammad to lead them. Mohammad defeated his one-time protégé and incumbent Prime Minister, Najib Razak. Razak’s defeat was...

The United States President, Donald Trump on Thursday revealed that five most wanted leaders of the Islamic State in Syria and Iraq (ISIS) have been captured in Iraq. In a tweet released on Thursday,...

The Gambia is selling several airplanes and a fleet of luxury cars belonging to former President Yahya Jammeh as it seeks to reduce crippling debts incurred during his decades-long authoritarian rule. Jammeh,...