Fresh rain and falling boulders have hampered rescuers who have so far pulled out 26 bodies from the debris of a landslide that wiped out a railway construction site in northeastern India’s... Read more »
The US government has hailed Kenya’s President Uhuru Kenyatta for getting DR Congo and Rwanda to a meeting last week, saying it could ease tensions between the two neighbours. US Secretary of... Read more »
The latest clashes in Sudan’s Darfur region between Arab and non-Arab groups have left more than 100 people killed, a tribal leader said on Monday. Repeated clashes in the region since late... Read more »
The world’s stockpiles of nuclear weapons are expected to increase over the next decade, reversing a decline seen since the end of the Cold War. The Stockholm International Peace Research Institute, SIPRI,... Read more »
The United Nations rights chief has hailed a decision by lawmakers in the Central African Republic to end capital punishment in the country. No executions have been carried out in CAR since... Read more »
The International Monetary Fund (IMF) projects Botswana›s economic growth for 2022 to hit 4.3 percent as the country continues a steadfast recovery from the COVID-19 shocks. The lender deployed a delegation to... Read more »
China has barred Russia’s airlines from flying foreign-owned jetliners into its airspace, the Russian news outlet RBK reported, after President Vladimir Putin threw the aircrafts› ownership into doubt by allowing them to... Read more »
In February 2020, Hosea Ndiretu was gang-raped by a group of men while leaving a bar in Nairobi. Within weeks, he realised he had a sexually transmitted infection (STI) and visited a... Read more »
The IMF accepted the Somali government’s request for a three-month extension to examine and endorse planned reforms. The International Monetary Fund has agreed to extend the duration of a crucial aid package... Read more »
Xinua- Turkey will not approve Sweden’s NATO membership if the country does not extradite “terrorists” upon Turkish request, Turkish President RecepTayyipErdogan said Wednesday. “Supporting the outlawed Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK), Syria’s Kurdish... Read more »