World
-
Gunmen release 74 children in Nigeria’s Zamfara state after receiving ransoms
Gunmen in Nigeria have released 74 children out of more than 80 people who were abducted earlier this month in northwestern Zamfara state, after ransoms were paid, parents and a village head said on …
-
Air defences shoot down 15 of 18 missiles launched at Ukraine in dead of night
Ukrainian air defence crews destroyed 15 out of 18 missiles launched by Russian forces in the early hours of Monday morning, the military said, as Moscow intensified attacks on its neighbour in recen…
-
U.S. court orders South African firm’s CEO to pay $3.4bn for bitcoin fraud
A federal judge in Texas ordered the head of a South African firm to pay a whopping $3.4 billion for what the U.S. commodities regulator said was its largest-ever fraud case involving bitcoin. Cornel…
-
Another Kenyan pastor arrested over ‘mass killings’ in Kenya, as cult deaths top 100
A Kenyan televangelist was arrested on Thursday after reports of the “mass killing of his followers”, the interior minister said, as authorities investigated scores of other deaths linked to a religi…
-
[Sudan war] US, African states race to extend Sudan truce, gunfire still heard
The United States and African nations were racing to secure an extension of a ceasefire in Sudan on Thursday, with the Sudanese army giving an initial nod to an African proposal calling for talks eve…
-
[Sudan war] UK urges nationals in Sudan to move now as end of ceasefire nears
Britain may not be able to continue evacuating its nationals in Sudan when a ceasefire ends – something due to happen later on Thursday – and they should try to reach British flights out of the count…
-
Portugal must apologise and take responsibility for role in slavery – president
Portugal’s President Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa said on Tuesday his country should apologise and take responsibility for its role in the transatlantic slave trade, the first time a leader of the souther…
-
South Africa’s president Ramaphosa says country to withdraw from ICC in second attempt
South Africa’s governing African National Congress will aim to repeal the country’s membership of the International Criminal Court (ICC), President Cyril Ramaphosa said on Tuesday, the second time it…
-
[Sudan war] United Nations cry out over possible ‘biological hazard’ as fighters seize laboratory
Fighting in Sudan eased on Tuesday and more foreigners and locals fled the capital Khartoum, where marauding combatants created what a U.N. agency said was a “high risk of biological hazard” by seizi…
-
IMF approves immediate disbursement of about $153m to Tanzania
The executive board of the International Monetary Fund on Monday approved the first review of Tanzania’s three-year extended credit facility, allowing immediate disbursement of about $153 million in …