UPDATED TO SHOW NEW DEATH TOLL: Two car bombs detonated by al Shabab militants killed at least 19 people and flattened several houses in central Somalia's Hiraan region on Wednesday, a government-allied militia and a local elder said.
Six African artists representing the face of Africa have made it on the list of the ‘’200 Greatest Singers of All Time’’ by Rolling Stone, an American magazine that focuses on music, politics and pop culture.
Portuguese superstar and former Manchester United talisman, Cristiano Ronaldo Tuesday was unveiled by his new Saudi Arabia based club in a fashionable manner in front of a packed stadium. While addressing his new teammates and Saudi football fans, the 37-year-old forward expressed excitement for his new venture and highlighted that he looks forward to taking Asian football to new lengths.
The bodies of 28 men killed by gunfire have been found in the northwestern Burkina Faso town of Nouna, prosecutors said on Monday.
Algerian journalist Ihsane El Kadi, who owns a media group and has been a vocal critic of the government, has been placed in a pre-trial detention, accused of receiving foreign funding, his lawyers said on Thursday after he was arrested on Dec. 24.
UPDATED WITH FRESH INFORMATION: Former pope Benedict XVI is "lucid and alert" and his condition remains serious but stable, the Vatican said Thursday, the day after revealing the 95-year-old's health had deteriorated.
A number of politicians put expedience before the rule of law in 2022. Cape Town News 24 Parliamentary reporter Jan Gerber reflects on some of the most notable incidents in this analytical article.
UPDATED WITH LATEST HEALTH CONDITION INFORMATION: Former pope Benedict, 95, who in 2013 became the first pontiff in 600 years to step down, is "very sick", his successor Pope Francis said on Wednesday, asking the church to pray for him.
Somali President Hassan Sheikh Mohamed says the vast majority of paid government workers - 3,500 out of 5,000 -were neither in the country nor working. The president termed them to be so-called "ghost workers," as Ahmed Mohamed reports.
At least fifteen killings have taken place in communities located in Nigeria's Zamfara and Sokoto regions according to local residents quoted by the Premium Times online newspaper there.
UPDATED WITH NEW INFORMATION: Temperatures moderated across the eastern and Midwest United States on Tuesday, after days of freezing weather from "the blizzard of the century" left at least 49 dead and caused Christmas travel chaos.
SpaceX Chief Executive Elon Musk said on Monday that the company is now close to having 100 active Starlinks, the firm's satellite internet service, in Iran, three months after he tweeted he would activate the service there amid protests around the Islamic country, which has tried to create and enforce a "walled internet."
The extreme weather sent wind chill temperatures in all 48 contiguous US states below
African Union negotiators, led by former Kenya President Uhuru Kenyatta, announced on Thursday a team would arrive in Tigrayan capital Mekele in the next few days to assess the implementation of the Ethiopia peace agreement.
Update: Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy arrived to Washington for a trip set to press for military aid, delivering the biggest surprise of the 10 months since Russia invaded his country.
South Africa's ruling ANC party on Monday re-elected President Cyril Ramaphosa as its leader for a second five-year term, despite a brewing scandal over a huge cash theft at his farm.
Morocco’s Atlas Lions made history for Africa at the 2022 FIFA World Cup, after the North African team finished in fourth position at the global tournament.
African football fans say they are saddened that Morocco will not be featuring in Sunday’s 2022 FIFA World Cup final - but they are are confident that the Atlas Lions will return to Africa with bronze medals after defeating Croatia in their third-place match scheduled for Saturday.
Senior journalists working for VOA, CNN, The New York Times and The Washington Post Thursday faced suspension from social media site Twitter for unknown reasons, however all report writing articles and posting about the site’s new owner, Elon Musk.
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