Ibrahim Boubacar Keita, Mali’s former president who was ousted in a coup in 2020, has died at the age of 76 in the nation’s capital, Bamako on Sunday. The AFP quoted family sources in reporting his death. “President IBK died this morning at 0900 GMT in his home” in Bamako, […]
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Archbishop Desmond Tutu, the South African Nobel Peace Prize winner, is dead. Tutu, an Anglican archbishop, died in Cape Town at the age of 90. His death was announced Sunday by the South African President’s office. Mondli Gungubele, the minister in the South African Presidency, in a statement, said that […]
As more countries continue to report confirmed cases of the new Omicron variant of the Covid-19 pandemic, many western countries are imposing travel bans with Africa as the main target. About 40 countries have imposed travel restrictions on several African countries following the discovery of the variant while Japan and […]
The US Court of Appeals for the DC Circuit has said it had granted former president Donald Trump’s request to temporarily halt the release of White House documents that could implicate him in the January 6 attack on the Capitol. A US District judge had on Tuesday ordered the release […]
Frederick Willem de Klerk, the last white South African president, who freed Nelson Mandela, South Africa’s freedom fighter and its first black president from prison is dead. De Klerk’s death on Thursday was announced by his foundation, the FW de Klerk Foundation, in a statement. He died aged 85 after […]
A Nigerian, Adeyemi Opebiyi, has sued the United Kingdom for allegedly turning him back from entering the country after he had been granted a visa and had flown from Nigeria to the Manchester Airport, reports The Punch. Opebiyi, who described himself as the Head of Operations, Sabi Micro Finance Bank […]
The United States Attorney’s Office in the Central District of California has alleged Abba Kyari, the Head of the Inspector-General of Police’s Intelligence Response Team, was paid bribes by Ramon Abbas, aka Hushpuppi to arrest and detain an estranged ‘co-conspirator,’ Chibuzo Vincent. In a statement released on Wednesday by the […]
About 161,000 people have protested across France on Saturday in objection to new regulations introduced by the country’s authorities to contain the coronavirus pandemic. Franceinfo television channel reported that some 11,000 people demonstrated in Paris. There were scuffles on the edges of the protest in Paris near the Champs-Elysees, which […]
Several people reportedly taking selfies near a historical fort in northern India were among nearly 80 killed by lightning strikes during the early stages of the annual monsoon season, officials said Monday. Deadly lightning strikes are common in the vast Asian nation during the June-September deluge, which bring respite from […]
Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez on Saturday reshuffled his government for the first time since the left-wing coalition came to power in January 2020. Sanchez said it represented “a generational renewal” because the mean age of the ministers was now 50 instead of 55. And women now make up 63 […]
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