A lawmaker in US state of Kentucky Dan Johnson is reported to have committed suicide following reports that he sexually assaulted a woman when she was 17.
Officials in Somalia have confirmed the death of at least 13 people in a suicide bomb attack at a police training camp in Somalia’s capital Mogadishu on Thursday.
The government of South Sudan has said that it required some $1.7 billion in aid in 2018 to be able to assist some 6 million people many of whom are starving and reeling under conflict.
Liberians would now have the opportunity to choose a new president in a runoff poll on December 26 after the country’s National Elections Commission announced a new date.
The opposition in Togo on Tuesday refused to hold talks with the government to bring an end to the agitations demanding an end to the Gnassingbe dynasty.