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By Chioma Iruke More than 5,000 prisoners have been granted Clemency by Iran’s supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei to mark a Shiite religious holiday, a statement on his official website said Saturday. The statement gave no...

By John Ikani Derek Chauvin, the former police officer who killed George Floyd on a Minneapolis street last year, was sentenced Friday to 22 and half years in prison. The punishment — which fell short of...

By John Ikani Namibia has run out of medical oxygen reserves as the country experiences record numbers of daily deaths from coronavirus. Disclosing this to newsmen, health minister Kalumbi Shangula said all local manufacturers of purified...

  By Chioma Iruke 267 south Asian migrants have been rescued by Tunisian authorities, out of which 264 from Bangladesh, tried to sail from Libya to Europe across the Mediterranean Sea on Thursday. The migrants were...

  By Hannatu Sadiq The United Kingdom, UK, has added Uganda to the "red list" nations from where travellers will not be allowed entry into its territory. The travel restriction which is effective from June 30,...

By Hannatu Sadiq Thousands of Senegalese citizens flooded Dakar, Senegal's capital on Wednesday to commemorate the ten-year anniversary of the June 23, 2011 protest that stopped former President Abdoulaye Wade from a third term, and called...