United States President, Donald Trump has called for an end to the American Visa Lottery and the introduction of a merit-based immigration, a system which is currently being practiced in Australia. In...

  A coalition of opposition parties and personalities in Egypt has called for a boycott of the March presidential elections in the country, describing it as a ‘masquerade.’ The call which is...

Newly- inaugurated Liberian President, George Manneh Opong Weah has pledged to cut his salary and entitlements by 25 percent because of the country’s broken economy. In a nation-wide broadcast on Monday...

At least 14 Malian soldiers were killed on Saturday when Islamist militants stormed an army camp in the Timubuktu region in what has been described as the worst attack on security forces in the country...

  Not less than 24 persons were reportedly killed after a vehicle drove over a landmine in the town of Boni in Central Mali.   Malian Army spokesman, Colonel Diarran Kone told journalists that the...

  Doctors in China have taken a step closer towards cloning humans as they have successfully cloned two monkeys using the “Dolly the Sheep” method of transferring DNA. The identical macaque monkeys,...

  Winnie Madikizela-Mandela, erstwhile wife of the legendary freedom fighter and former South African  President, Nelson Mandela, has been hospitalized for a kidney infection.   A statement released...

President Rodrigo Duterte of the Phillipines on Monday instructed the country’s army and police to shoot him if he became a dictator and stayed on beyond his agreed tenure. The fire brand leader sought...

At least six persons were reportedly shot dead by Congolese security forces in an attempt to disperse a banned protest organized by the Catholic church against the continued stay in power of President...

  Former International soccer star and one-time World Footballer of the Year, George Manneh Weah has been sworn in as the 24th President of Liberia ( the first peaceful democratic transfer of power in...

Exiled Zimbabwe opposition leader, Roy Benneth and four others have been reportedly killed in a helicopter crash in a remote northern part of the US state of New Mexico on Thursday. According to the New...

British Prime Minister, Theresa May has appointed Tracey Crouch as the country’s Minister for Loneliness to continue the work of murdered lawmaker, Jo Cox in tackling the isolation felt by more than...

After months of evading the Venezuelan security, renegade helicopter pilot, Oscar Perez was killed by the police during a nine-hour siege near the country’s capital, Caracas on Monday. Perez was labelled...

  Liberia’s outgoing President, Ellen Johnson Sirleaf has been axed by leaders of the country’s ruling Unity Party (UP) over allegations of meddling with last year’s presidential elections...

Angola’s President, Joao Lourenco has dismissed Jose Filomeno dos Santos, the second son of the country’s immediate past President, Jose Eduardo Dos Santos from his position. Jose Filomeno was sacked...

United States President, Donald Trump says he will defeat reality television show star, Oprah Winfrey in a presidential race if she eventually decides to contest in 2020.   Speaking with journalists...

The torrential rains that accompanied last week’s passage of Cyclone Ava on the eastern part of the island of Madagascar has left 29 persons dead and left more than 80,000 people as disaster victims. According...

Armed security operatives have reportedly taken into custody leaders of the Ambazonia separatist movement, a Cameroonian group agitating for the independence of the Anglophone region of Cameroon. It is...

Former South African Paralympics world champion, Oscar Pistorius on Monday approached a Constitutional Court in Johannesburg to appeal the 13-year sentence handed down to him for murder. Last month, the...

The Kenyan Police on Tuesday raided an Islamic school, arrested two teachers and took around 100 children into protective custody in what they said was a counter-terrorism operation involving foreign law...