The Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) has appointed Ghanaian statesman and diplomat, Ambassador Baba Kamara, as Head of Mission for its Election...
The Federal Government has ordered the immediate closure of 41 Federal Unity Colleges over rising security concerns.
The directive was issued through a circular dated...
At least five people have been killed, including one child, and more than 450 injured after a 5.5 magnitude earthquake hit Bangladesh.
The epicentre of...
Armed men posing as officials from India's central bank have robbed a vehicle transporting 70m rupees ($800,000; £600,000) in the southern state of Karnataka,...
A Florida congresswoman has been charged with stealing $5m (£3.8m) in federal disaster funds.
Sheila Cherfilus-McCormick is accused of laundering some of the Federal Emergency...
A court in Nigeria has found separatist leader Nnamdi Kanu guilty of terrorism and other charges following a decade-long legal case full of drama.
He...
Eswatini received $5.1 million from the U.S. government under a deal to accept third-country nationals deported by the Trump administration, its finance minister said...
Russian President Vladimir Putin will meet with Togo's President Faure Gnassingbe in the Kremlin on Wednesday for talks that will focus on developing ties...
Nine people have been killed and dozens more wounded in a Russian attack on the western city of Ternopil, Ukraine's president Volodymyr Zelensky has...
US President Donald Trump said Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman "knew nothing" about the 2018 killing of journalist Jamal Khashoggi, as he welcomed...
Imprisoned rap mogul Sean "Diddy" Combs has denied a new sexual battery allegation that is being investigated by the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department.
The...
Both chambers of Congress agreed to order the U.S. Justice Department to release its files on sex offender financier Jeffrey Epstein.
The House of Representatives...
Congolese Mines Minister Louis Watum Kabamba and other members of his delegation survived an accident when the plane they were flying in caught fire...
Gunmen attacked a government girls' boarding school in Nigeria's Kebbi State early on Monday, killing the vice principal and abducting 25 female students, police...
Militants from Islamic State West Africa Province said on Monday they had executed a senior Nigerian army officer captured during a deadly ambush on...
The rate of new international students' enrolment at US universities dropped by 17% this autumn compared to previous years, research released on Monday indicates.
The...
Bangladesh's former prime minister has been sentenced to death for crimes against humanity over her crackdown on student-led protests which led to her ousting.
Sheikh...
A bridge at a copper and cobalt mine in southeastern Congo collapsed due to overcrowding, killing at least 32 people, a regional government official...
US President Donald Trump has called on House Republicans to vote to release the Epstein files, in a reversal from his previous position.
"House Republicans...
The Ghana–Spain Parliamentary Friendship Association has reaffirmed its commitment to advancing bilateral cooperation following a courtesy call on the Spanish Ambassador, H.E. Ángel Lossada,...
Germany's coalition government has agreed on a new military service plan to boost troop numbers following months of wrangling between political forces.
The new military...
There is no genocide in northern Nigeria, the African Union Commission chairperson said on Wednesday, rejecting accusations by U.S. President Donald Trump that "very large numbers"...
The Nigerian government has announced it is cancelling a controversial policy that mandated the use of indigenous languages for teaching in the earliest years...
