World

By Ebi Kesiena At least 38 people have died and scores have been injured in a fire which tore through a prison in Burundi. Vice-President Prosper Bazombanza told reporters the blaze hit an overcrowded facility in...

By Ebi Kesiena A police officer in Kenya shot dead his wife and five other people with an AK-47 in the early hours of Tuesday morning. According to officials, a neighbor heard "a loud bang" from...

By Emmanuel Nduka The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) on Monday disclosed that Cameroonian refugees living in Nigeria are now over 70,000. The UN Refugee Agency also appealed to international community for urgent additional...

By Ebi Kesiena The main opposition party in Angola, UNITA, has re-elected Adalberto Costa Júnior as its leader. In October, the Constitutional Court annulled his 2019 election as party leader. The decision of the court was...

By Ebi Kesiena A court in Myanmar sentenced the country’s deposed leader, Aung San Suu Kyi to four years in jail on Monday, according to a source familiar with the proceedings. A spokesman for Myanmar’s military,...

By John Ikani Hundreds of people on Sunday took part in protests on beaches in South Africa against planned exploration for offshore Oil and Gas by the Multinational Energy Company, Shell. The protest came a day...