World

By Ebi Kesiena Abolhassan Bani-Sadr, who became Iran's first President after the 1979 Islamic revolution before fleeing into exile in France, has died on Saturday aged 88. He died at the Pitie-Salpetriere hospital in Paris following...

By John Ikani  Sierra Leone has formally abolished death penalty, becoming the 23rd African country to repeal the capital punishment. President Julius Maada Bio on Friday signed a bill abolishing the death penalty during a ceremony...

By Ebi Kesiena Fourteen men, including a former President, will go on trial in Burkina Faso from Monday over the 1987 assassination of Thomas Sankara, the country’s revolutionary leader and a pan-Africanist icon. It will be...

By Ebi Kesiena Kenya stated on Friday that it has rejected the jurisdiction of the UN’s International Court of Justice (ICJ) ahead of a ruling next week on its long-running maritime border dispute with Somalia. The...

  By Ebi Kesiena Ethiopian Prime Minister, Abiy Ahmed has announced plans of a government reshuffle marked by the replacement of the Ministers of Defence and Peace. The reshuffle takes place against the backdrop of a...

  By Ebi Kesiena Kenya’s Cabinet Secretary for Tourism, Najib Balala, has assured tourists that Kenya and other African countries branded as travel risks, are actually travel safe, adding that he regrets that Kenya has been...