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Top UN court orders Israel to allow food and medical aid into Gaza

The UN's top court has unanimously ordered Israel to enable the unhindered flow of aid into Gaza in order to avert a famine. The International...

Fallen ‘Crypto King’ Sam Bankman-Fried gets 25 years for fraud

Sam Bankman-Fried, co-founder of the failed crypto exchange FTX, has been sentenced to 25 years in prison for defrauding customers and investors of his...

Girl, 8, only survivor as 45 killed in bus crash in South Africa

Forty-five people have died in South Africa after the bus they were in plunged some 50m (165ft) off a bridge into a ravine, authorities...

Tinubu forms team to find solutions to ailing economy

Nigeria's President Bola Tinubu has formed a taskforce to come up with emergency solutions to try and fix the country's ailing economy. The prices of...

Jacob Zuma barred from running in South Africa election

Former President Jacob Zuma has been barred from running in South Africa's general election in May. The country's electoral commission, or IEC, has not given...

Akufo-Addo congratulates newly-elected Senegal President

President Nana Akufo-Addo has extended a congratulatory message to the newly-elected President of Senegal, Bassirou Diomaye Faye. The 44-year-old who becomes Africa's youngest President was...

Notorious thieves arrested after being tracked down by stolen AirPods

In a dramatic turn of events, the police arrested two Tanzanian nationals, Malaji Arabi Saidi and Shimdavala Mohamedi Shomari, who had been on a...

A Nigerian woman faces years in jail after reviewing some ‘tomato paste’ online

A Nigerian woman who wrote an online review of a can of tomato puree is facing imprisonment after its manufacturer accused her of making...

Church of Pentecost in Pakistan hold biggest procession [Photos]

The Church of Pentecost in Pakistan organized a large procession, which is the biggest in the Lahore city. Pakistan, an Islamic nation, is open...

School head resigns over veil row and death threats

There is indignation in France after the headteacher of a Paris school resigned because of fears for his life. The head was sent death threats...

US guns pour into Haiti, fuelling surge in violence

Haiti is a state out of action. More than two weeks after the country's prime minister resigned, following a surge of violence in Port-au-Prince,...

Two bodies recovered from water under collapsed Baltimore bridge

The bodies of two people have been recovered from a red pickup truck which was submerged under the waters where the Baltimore bridge collapsed....

One billion meals go waste daily – UNEP report

In 2022, households worldwide wasted more than one billion meals daily, even as 783 million people experienced hunger, and a third of the global...

Son of Guinea-Bissau’s ex-President jailed in US for trafficking drugs to fund coup

The son of Guinea-Bissau's ex-President has been sentenced to over six years in prison by a US court for leading an international heroin trafficking...

Titanic ‘door’ prop that kept Rose alive sells for $718,750

The floating piece of wood that kept Titanic's Rose alive has been sold for $718,750 (£569,739) at auction. Ever since the release of the 1997...

Cargo ship collides with Baltimore bridge; six missing after collapse

A massive container ship lost power early Tuesday before crashing into the Francis Scott Key Bridge in Baltimore, causing it to collapse into the...

US Supreme Court appears sceptical of abortion pill case

The US Supreme Court appeared sceptical of an effort to restrict access to a commonly used abortion drug, mifepristone, during a Tuesday hearing. Several members...

Actors Guild of Nigeria reacts to Zack Orji’s rumoured death

The Actors Guild of Nigeria (AGN) has debunked rumours about the death of popular veteran actor Zack Orji. The President of AGN, Emeka Rollas has...

Supreme Court to hear arguments in abortion pill case

The US Supreme Court will hear oral arguments on whether to restrict access to mifepristone, a commonly used abortion pill. It is considered the most...

Man arrested for stealing fufu, pot of soup

A 20-year-old man, identified as Ojo Monday, has been arraigned before an Ado-Ekiti Chief Magistrates’ Court in Ekiti State, over alleged housebreaking and stealing. The...

Brave lady driving from London to Lagos involved in an accident

The audacious attempt by a Nigerian lady, Pelumi Nubi, to travel by road from London to Lagos has suffered some setbacks after an accident. This...

Law enforcement raids Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs’s properties in LA and Miami

Properties connected to rapper Sean "Diddy" Combs were raided on Monday by federal agents. The Department of Homeland Security said it had pursued the "law...

UN Security Council passes resolution calling for Gaza ceasefire

The UN Security Council has called for an immediate ceasefire in Gaza, after the US did not veto the measure in a shift from...

Senegal election result: Bassirou Diomaye Faye to become Africa’s youngest president

Few had heard of him a year ago, and now he is set to become president. Bassirou Diomaye Faye's extraordinary rise caps a rollercoaster period...

Trump wins last-minute reprieve as judge cuts fraud bond to $175m

Donald Trump was handed a last-minute reprieve in court on Monday, when a New York court allowed him to post a reduced bond of...

Actress tearfully recalls 2Pac telling her ‘he wasn’t gonna make it past 25’

Actress Jasmine Guy opened up about a conversation she had with 2Pac. The actress shared the story on The Breakfast Club, telling the hosts that she...

Islamic Corporation for the Insurance of Investment and Export Credit (ICIEC) to Host High Level Panel Discussion at the Islamic Development Bank Group (IsDB)...

The Islamic Corporation for the Insurance of Investment and Export Credit (ICIEC) (https://ICIEC.IsDB.org/), the Shariah-compliant multilateral insurer and member of the Islamic Development Bank...

Radisson Hotel Group accelerates expansion in Morocco with the target of 25 hotels by 2030

Radisson Hotel Group (https://www.RadissonHotels.com) has set a goal of expanding its current portfolio of 11 hotels in operation and under development in Morocco to...

44-year-old Senegal opposition leader projected to win heated presidential polls – Report

Early results from Senegal's presidential vote put opposition candidate Bassirou Diomaye Faye ahead, sending his supporters to celebrate in the streets, though his main...

Koa Academy Wins Meltwater Entrepreneurial School of Technology (MEST) Africa Challenge 2023, Securing $50,000 Investment

MEST Africa (www.Meltwater.org), a leading Pan-African tech entrepreneurship training program, seed fund, and incubator, proudly announces Koa Academy (www.KoaAcademy.com) as the grand prize winner of...

Ecobank Group signs United Nations (UN) Women’s Empowerment Principles

Ecobank (www.Ecobank.com), the pan-African banking group, has become an official signatory of the Women’s Empowerment Principles by UN Women and the UN Global Compact...

Dalberg awarded 5-year contract to strengthen United States Agency for International Development’s (USAID) work with the private sector

Dalberg Advisors (https://Dalberg.com/) has announced the award of the Private Sector Engagement Strategic Collaboration and Leading- Edge Engagement (“PSE SCALE”) program, a framework agreement...

Moscow attack: Russian court charges four men with act of terrorism

Russia has charged four men it says attacked a Moscow concert hall and killed at least 137 people. Three were marched blindfolded into a Moscow...

Senegal election: Voters choose new president after political crisis

People in Senegal are voting for a new president in a delayed election after weeks of political unrest. Long queues of voters have been witnessed...

Zelensky hits back after Russia links Ukraine to Moscow attack

As news of the Moscow concert hall attack broke on Friday, Ukrainians knew what was coming: Kyiv would be blamed. The next thing they expected...

At least 65 migrant bodies found in Libya mass grave, says UN

A mass grave containing the bodies of at least 65 migrants has been found in Libya, the International Organization for Migration (IOM) has said....

Veteran Nollywood actor, Amaechi Muonagor passes on

Veteran Nollywood actor, Amaechi Muonagor, has died after a prolonged illness, at the age of 62. This was disclosed by a social commentator, Morris Monye,...

Eritrea: World Tuberculosis Day Observed

World Tuberculosis Day was observed today, 24 March, on a national level, with a ceremony organized at Orotta Referral Hospital Hall under the theme...

United Kingdom continues global fight to end Tuberculosis (TB) around the world

UK support will fund innovative projects to combat Tuberculosis (TB); TB kills more people per year than any other infectious disease; The UK has...

If oil disappeared tomorrow (By HE Haitham Al Ghais)

By HE Haitham Al Ghais, OPEC Secretary General. If oil disappeared tomorrow, there would be no more jet fuel, gasoline or diesel. Internal combustion engine...