Year: 2024

Will the impact of the widening war in the Middle East soon be felt across the globe? Israel's threat to ...

A boat carrying scores of passengers capsized on Lake Kivu in eastern Congo on Thursday, killing at least 50 people, ...

There are many factors behind the emerging smoking trends whereby kids end up smoking cigarettes before they even turn 18. ...

A ship carrying hundreds of foreign nationals fleeing the violence in Lebanon arrived in Turkey on Thursday, as the Israel-Hezbollah ...

Lesaka Technologies, Inc. has announced it has completed its acquisition of Adumo RF (Pty) Ltd (“Adumo”). The transaction was settled ...

Britain said on Thursday it would give up sovereignty of the Chagos Islands to Mauritius in a deal that would ...

Interior ministers from the G7, a group including some of the world's most industrialised economies gathered in Mirabella Eclano southern ...

Brothers Victor and Confidence Kipo are really doing the trick when it comes to freestyle football.The Nigerians, who are 13 ...

The Arab League on Thursday condemned what it described as Israel's "brutal scenario" in Lebanon following escalation in hostilities between ...

AFPThere were hopes that President Samia would allow the media more freedomThree of Tanzania's leading newspapers have been banned from ...

Nairobi — The Ministry of Health on Thursday confirmed one more case of Monkeypox (Mpox) leading the total tally of ...

The family of US sitcom "Good Times" mourns actors John Amos. In a statement unveiled Tuesday, Amos’ publicist, Belinda Foster, ...

South Sudan’s President Salva Kiir has sacked his powerful and long-serving spy chief Gen Akol Koor Kuc.He became head of ...

The United Kingdom has agreed to cede sovereignty over the Chagos Islands, a long-disputed archipelago of more than 60 islands ...

The UK has announced it is giving up sovereignty of a remote but strategically important cluster of islands in the ...

Nairobi — Kenya's monthly inflation rate eased to 3.6 percent in September 2024 amid an increase in food and non-food ...

Russia is considering canceling visas for several African countries. Moscow is preparing agreements on a visa-free regime with nine countries ...

The GSMA has opened registration for M360 MENA 2024, which will take place for the first time in Doha, Qatar. ...

LAFC's Gabonese forward Denis Bouanga scored in the first minute of first-half injury time to beat St. Louis City 1-0 ...

Liverpool are making one of the toughest fixtures in the new Champions League format look easy. Two Italian teams were ...

More than 100 people, mostly women and children, were missing after an overloaded boat bringing them back from an Islamic ...

The Senate Leader said he is not working against the Yoruba nation as alleged by some persons. The Senate Leader, ...

An annular eclipse, informally known as 'a ring of fire', took place in the skies above South America on Wednesday. ...

ARISE IIP, a leading pan-African developer and operator of world-class industrial parks, has announced a significant capital raise of US$443 ...

Veteran South African gospel artist Solomon Molokoane, popularly known as Solly Moholo, has died at the age of 65, his ...

Rwanda's health minister has announced that the country will kick off vaccine and therapeutic clinical trials to treat Marbug disease ...

An Argentinian court issued a ruling on Tuesday allowing the transfer of football legend Diego Maradona's remains to a public ...

The pan-African telco, Paratus Group, announced it is providing LEO satellite solutions to clients in South Africa, Botswana, Mozambique, and ...

  Experts Warn of Imminent Water Crisis in Gauteng Gauteng’s water supply crisis is accelerating toward an all-encompassing failure, according ...

The head of the United Nations Office to the African Union briefed the Security Council Wednesday (Oct. 2) on the ...

The Dominican Republic announced Wednesday that it would start massive deportations of Haitians living illegally in the country, expelling up ...

Abuja — The Committee to Protect Journalists calls on Gambian authorities to drop all charges against The Voice newspaper editors, ...

In a statement, Kyagulanyi lauded the US government's decision, calling it a significant step toward achieving justice for victims of ...

Ryan Rickelton and Tristan Stubbs hit half-centuries as South Africa trounced Ireland by 139 runs in the first of three ...

BBC / Kennedy GondweKariba Dam was built in a gorge between Zambia and Zimbabwe holding back the Zambezi River to ...

One of the worst famines in decades could be under way in Sudan, a country in the middle of a ...

Parfait Onanga-Anyanga, the Special Representative of the UN Secretary-General to the African Union, highlighted “encouraging developments” that are fueling optimism.“These ...

Algiers — The President of the Republic, Abdelmadjid Tebboune, set up on Wednesday the national Commission on the revision of ...

Lebanon is home to over 250,000 migrant domestic workers who come from African and Asian countries, most of them women, ...

"Our operatives discovered that they were carrying a bag loaded with 7.62 x 39mm ammunition numbering 440, with 20 empty ...