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Fire kills African migrants at detention centre in Yemen

Several African migrants were killed in a fire at a overcrowded migrant detention centre in the Yemeni capital, Sana’a over the weekend. The centre housed...

Niger’s outgoing President Issoufou wins African leadership prize

Niger's President Mahamadou Issoufou has won the 2020 edition of the Ibrahim prize for African leadership. Issoufou was announced as winner of the $5m prize...

The Ghanaian-born who led Pfizer team to develop Covid-19 vaccine

Ghanaian-born Paul Mensah is a chemical engineer and the vice president of the bioprocess research and development group at Pfizer in St. Louis, in...

Okonjo-Iweala officially begins work as WTO Director-General

Former Nigerian finance minister Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala on Monday took over officially as the new director-general of the World Trade Organization. Ngozi was last month elected...

95 African migrants rescued off Libya’s coast

International Organization for Migration (IOM) has said that its officials have rescued 95 migrants off the coast of Libya on Sunday. IOM officials however revealed...

Pope Francis expects to remain pontiff until his death in Rome

Pope Francis expects to die in Rome, still the Catholic pontiff, without returning to spend his final days in his native Argentina, according to...

Cockerel detained by police after killing owner during cockfight

A cockerel was held at a police station after killing its owner during a cockfight in southern India. The cockerel which will be sent to...

Saudi crown prince ‘approved’ Khashoggi murder, US report says

A US intelligence report has found that Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman approved the murder of exiled journalist Jamal Khashoggi in 2018. The declassified...

Rwanda’s Kagame criticizes ‘hypocrisy’ in Covid-19 vaccine supply

Rwanda's President Paul Kagame has criticized what he calls "hypocrisy and double standards" in the global distribution of Covid-19 vaccines. The World Health Organization (WHO)...

Covid-19: Poor countries without vaccines could face grave death toll

Poorer countries will most likely "bear the brunt of hundreds of thousands of needless deaths" from inequalities in access to Covid-19 vaccines. This dire warning...

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