Africa
Twenty people were killed when suspected gunmen stormed a market Saturday in northern Nigeria, according to media reports. Thirty-five others were injured in the massacre carried out by unidentified attackers in the Sabon Birni region in Sokoto State. The state is often targeted by armed groups. On Friday, 11 people, including children and an imam, ...
The 2021 Nobel Prize in literature has been awarded Thursday to Tanzanian novelist Abulrazak Gurnah. "The 2021 #NobelPrize in Literature is awarded to the novelist Abdulrazak Gurnah 'for ...
The National Electricity Regulatory Authority (ANRE) and the Nigerian Electricity Regulatory Commission (NERC) established, on Wednesday in Rabat, the basis of a cooperation agreement as part of their ...
At least 17 bodies of undocumented migrants have washed ashore in Libya, the Libyan Red Crescent said on Wednesday. The Red Crescent said in a statement that the ...
Algeria closed its airspace to French military aircraft, according to French media on Sunday. The French General Staff learned about the situation on Sunday morning, that Algeria did ...
UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres strongly condemned Saturday's improvised explosive device attacks against a convoy of the UN peacekeeping mission in Mali near Tessalit, Kidal region, in which a ...
Thousands of Tunisians took to the streets on Sunday in the capital, Tunis, to protest against President Kais Saied, who recently tightened his grip on power and expanded ...
More than 100 members of Tunisia's moderate Islamist Ennahda movement resigned on Saturday, citing "wrong political choices" made by its leaders. "The wrong political choices of the leadership ...
Ghana will receive 1.3 million Pfizer vaccines from the United States, the US vice president said on Thursday. Kamala Harris made the announcement after a meeting with Ghana's President Nana Akufo-Addo at the White House. The two held bilateral talks "aimed at strengthening the bonds of friendship and ties of co-operation between the two countries," ...
Algeria's former interim president Abdelkader Bensalah, who ruled the country during an unprecedented political crisis in 2019, died on Wednesday aged 80, the presidency said. Bensalah was named ...
