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‘I’ve been spat at in the face for the colour of my skin’

Basketball scout Sarah Chan’s career has taken her all over the world, from Sudan to Kenya, Europe and the US – but she’s had...

100-year-old lovers married for 79 years die hours apart

An Ohio couple that was married for 79 years couldn’t live without each other. Hubert and June Malicote, both 100 years old and residents of...

United States is world’s top destination for foreign direct investment

The United States recorded the largest increase in inward foreign direct investment of all economies in 2021. The latest release of the IMF’s Coordinated...

Bill Cosby hit with new sexual abuse lawsuit in New York

Despite Bill Cosby’s 2018 sexual assault conviction getting overturned by the Pennsylvania Supreme Court back in June 2021, the comedian is now facing a...

GI-KACE hosts the 14th ITU Kaleidoscope Conference

The 14th edition of the International Telecommunication (ITU) Kaleidoscope Conference is ongoing in Accra, Ghana. Being hosted by the Ghana-India Kofi Annan Centre of...

Police on manhunt for 4 women who abducted, raped man

A leather factory worker in his early twenties says four females bundled him inside a vehicle as he was walking in the city of...

Mozambique’s ex-president’s son jailed 12 years for corruption

A Mozambican court on Wednesday sentenced the son of Mozambique’s ex-president Armando Guebuza to 12 years in jail. This is following a vast corruption scandal...

CSA issues public alert on WhatsApp-based cybercrime

The Cyber Security Authority (CSA) says it has observed a worrying trend of increased reports of unauthorised access and online scams perpetrated through the...

Mother-of-five going blind after tattooing her eyeball purple

A mum of five brushed off her daughter’s advice to not get her eyeballs tattooed due to potential blindness — and now, she’s losing...

Tanzania cancels independence celebration, diverts funds to build dormitories for kids

Tanzania’s President Samia Suluhu Hassan has cancelled Independence Day celebrations scheduled for Friday and directed that the budget instead be used to build dormitories...

Indonesia’s new sex laws and what they could mean for tourism

Tourism operators in Indonesia are still trying to recover from the devastating impacts of the Covid-19 pandemic. Now the country’s parliament has passed new...

People envy my wealth – Nigerian presidential hopeful Tinubu

It’s very rare for Nigerian presidential hopeful Bola Ahmed Tinubu to talk directly to the media. At a recent much-publicised event in London, questions from...

Spain’s former King Juan Carlos wins partial immunity in ex-lover case

Ex-Spanish King Juan Carlos has won an appeal to block part of a case brought against him in the UK by his ex-lover. Businesswoman Corinna...

No more airplane mode – EU to allow calls on flights

Airline passengers in the European Union (EU) will soon be able to use their phones to full effect in the sky. The European Commission...

Indonesia: Parliament creates new law banning sex before marriage

Indonesian lawmakers unanimously passed a sweeping new criminal code on Tuesday that criminalizes sex outside marriage, as part of a tranche of changes that critics say threaten...

Ukraine war: Oil prices rise as cap on Russian crude looms

Oil prices have risen after major producers agreed to continue to cut output and the G7 and its allies said they will cap the...

Iran to disband morality police amid ongoing protests

Iran’s morality police, which is tasked with enforcing the country’s Islamic dress code, is being disbanded, the country’s attorney general says. Mohammad Jafar Montazeri’s comments,...

Fugitive arrested after commenting on ‘most wanted’ post made by police

A Georgia man assisted law enforcement in his arrest after he commented on the Rockdale County Sheriff’s Office’s Facebook page. The sheriff’s department, located east...

Police arrest man in fatal shooting of rapper Takeoff

Police have arrested a man and charged him with murder in connection with the fatal shooting of rapper Takeoff. The 28-year-old Grammy-nominated musician was shot...

Body of girl, 5, discovered in concrete used as a bedside table

A mum has been arrested after the body of her daughter was found set in concrete and used as a bedside table in her San Andrés,...

Elon Musk produces brain chip that enables disabled patients to move, see and communicate

Elon Musk said on Wednesday he expects a wireless brain chip developed by his company Neuralink to begin human clinical trials in six months,...

South Africa’s Cyril Ramaphosa faces threat of impeachment over ‘Farmgate’

South African President Cyril Ramaphosa is facing a possible impeachment threat over the “Farmgate” scandal. The president has been accused of covering up a $4m...

Latest news on IMF deal

The International Monetary Fund (IMF) has indicated that it is premature to comment on the final form the financing programme for Ghana will take....

Davido’s son’s drowning: Could tragedy improve Nigeria’s safety for swimmers?

The drowning of the three-year-old son of Afrobeats star Davido in the swimming pool at his home in Lagos last month has thrown a...

Kenya minsters to forgo a month’s salary in drought aid

Kenyan ministers will forgo their salaries for one month in solidarity with people who have been affected by the ongoing drought in parts of...

Far-right killer stabbed in South African prison

Janusz Walus, who was about to be released on parole after serving nearly three decades in a South African jail for killing anti-apartheid leader...

Nigeria police chief sentenced to three months in jail

The high court in Nigeria has sentenced the country’s police chief to three months in prison for disobeying a court order. The ruling followed a...

Namibia edges closer to having first female president

Namibia’s Deputy Prime Minister Netumbo Nandi-Ndaitwah is edging closer to becoming the country’s first female president. The 70-year-old has just been elected as vice-president of...

Angola’s ex-president’s daughter charged with embezzlement of public funds

Angola’s Attorney-General Helder Pitta Groz has confirmed that his country has issued an arrest warrant for former President Jose Eduardo dos Santos’ daughter, Isabel...

Shocking picture shows three stowaways rescued after spending 11 days on rudder of oil tanker

The Spanish coastguard says it has rescued three migrants who stowed away on the rudder of a tanker that arrived in the Canary Islands...

Flight attendant dies mid-air after suffering heart attack

A flight attendant suffered a heart attack midair and died while working on a flight from Bahrain to Paris last week. Gulf Air flight attendant...

7 gunmen who stormed hospital in attempt to kill teen arrested

Police in Ecuador have arrested seven gunmen who stormed a hospital in an attempt to kill a teen being treated there. Gang members took...

Father of Ghanaian female singer killed in the US breaks silence

The father of Ghanaian-American gospel musician, Britney Boateng, Ernest Boateng, has spoken out for the first time following the death of his daughter. Speaking in...

Court blocks Elon Musk from firing top Twitter executive

A court in Ireland has blocked billionaire Twitter CEO Elon Musk from firing a top employee of the company. Ireland’s High Court granted an injunction to...

Comoros ex-president sentenced to life in prison for treason

A court in Comoros has handed down a life sentence for high treason to former President Ahmed Abdallah Sambi. He was convicted of selling passports...

Ghana wins appeal in Norway case

The Oslo Court of Appeal has in a unanimous decision dismissed an appeal filed by Jongsbru AS, the sellers of a property identified by...

Squid Game actor O Yeong-su charged with sexual misconduct

Squid Game actor O Yeong-su has been charged with sexual misconduct, South Korean judicial officials say. The 78-year-old is accused of touching a woman inappropriately...

All the beautiful pictures, videos from Rita Dominic’s white wedding in England

Nigerian actress, Rita Dominic and founder of Folio Media Group, Dr Fidelis Anosike, have tied the knot in the presence of family and friends...

Naked volunteers pose for Tunick artwork on Bondi Beach

Some 2,500 naked volunteers have posed in the early morning light on Sydney’s Bondi Beach for an artwork designed to raise awareness of skin...

Indonesian woman’s body found inside python, say reports

A woman in Indonesia’s Jambi province was killed and swallowed whole by a python, according to local reports.  Jahrah, a rubber-tapper reportedly in her 50s,...