Dozens of people have been arrested in Cuba after thousands joined the biggest protests for decades against the island's Communist government, media and opposition sources say.
Unauthorised public gatherings are illegal in Cuba and prot…
All health care workers in France must be fully vaccinated against Covid-19 by September or risk not being paid, the government has announced.
The requirement applies to doctors, nurses, office staff and volunteers.
President Emmanue…
More than 60 people have died after a fire in a coronavirus isolation ward at a hospital in the Iraqi city of Nasiriya.
Much of Iraq's health care system is in poor condition after years of conflict and angry relatives of the victims ha…
A Deputy Minister for Finance and Member of Parliament for Ejisu, John Kumah, says giving Members of Parliament car loans whiles officials in other arms of government are provided cars for their work is unfair and must be addressed.
Acc…
South Africa is deploying the military to tackle riots that have broken out since the jailing of former president Jacob Zuma.
Shops were looted and buildings set on fire on Monday as Zuma challenged his sentence at a hearing in the top …
Thailand has changed its vaccine policy to mix China's Sinovac with the AstraZeneca vaccine in a bid to boost protection.
The decision comes after hundreds of medical workers caught Covid despite being fully vaccinated with Sinovac.
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Authorities in Nigeria’s commercial hub Lagos have threatened "harsh measures" against defaulters of Covid guidelines.
This comes after the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) confirmed the presence of the most transmissible Delta…
Tunisia's government has appealed for help from citizens abroad after the authorities declared the country’s health system had "collapsed", amid a rapid surge of the Delta variant which has led to increase in hospitalisation.
"Donate mo…
Tanzania’s President Samia Suluhu Hassan has called on authorities to conduct "a thorough investigation" to establish the cause of a fire that gutted a popular market in Dar es Salaam last night.
Shocked traders gathered at Kariakoo mar…
Two former Ivory Coast presidents and long-term political rivals, Laurent Gbagbo and Henri Konan Bédié, have announced that they are uniting to oppose the current head of state Allasane Ouattara.
The three men have dominated the country…
President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo will embark on a two-day working visit to the Upper West Region beginning from, Tuesday, July 13, 2021.
On arrival on Tuesday, President Akufo-Addo is expected to commence business with a courtesy…
An American neo-Nazi group which is led from Russia is to be banned as a terrorist organisation, the Home Secretary has said.
Priti Patel condemned "evil white supremacist groups, who target vulnerable people across the world".
The B…
Violent protests continued in South Africa overnight and on Monday morning over the jailing of former president Jacob Zuma.
A mall in Pietermaritzburg,in KwaZulu-Natal province was set on fire on Monday morning amid looting and destruct…
A UK envoy has asked South Sudanese citizens to hold their leaders accountable for their promises.
The UK's special envoy for South Sudan, Bob Fairweather, said while President Salva Kiir and his former rival Riek Machar had promised th…
President Cyril Ramaphosa of South Africa has extended the Covid-19 lockdown by another two weeks as cases increase in the country.
The president said schools would remain closed and night curfew would remain.
The sale of alcohol rem…
Billionaire Sir Richard Branson has successfully reached the edge of space on board his Virgin Galactic rocket plane.
The UK entrepreneur flew high above New Mexico in the US in the vehicle that his company has been developing for 17 ye…
Police in Haiti say they have arrested a doctor they believe is a key suspect in organising last week's assassination of President Jovenel Moïse.
They say Christian Emmanuel Sanon, a 63-year-old Haitian national, flew into the country o…
A court in Jordan has found a former royal court chief and a relative of King Abdullah guilty of sedition and incitement against the monarchy.
Bassem Awadallah and Sharif Hassan bin Zaid, who denied the charges, were both sentenced to 1…
Thousands of Cubans have joined the biggest protests for decades against the island's Communist government.
They marched in cities including the capital Havana, shouting, "Down with the dictatorship!".
Images on social media showed w…
Mr George Opare Addo, National Youth Organiser of the National Democratic Congress (NDC), has asked members of the Tertiary Education Institution Network (TEIN) to refocus on strengthening branches as part of efforts to win the 2024 genera…
The petition challenging the election of the National Democratic Congress (NDC) Member of Parliament (MP) for Assin North, Mr James Gyakye Quayson, has moved to the Supreme Court for a possible constitutional interpretation.
Mr Quayson …
The New Patriotic Member of Parliament for Offinso South, Dr Isaac Yaw Opoku, has called on Parliament to enact a law that will make the treatment of farms affected by cocoa swollen shoot virus disease (CSSVD) compulsory.
He said the pa…
The World Health Organization (WHO) has warned that a third wave of Covid-19 cases in Africa could get worse as new and faster spreading variants drive infections.
The highly transmissible Delta variant is spreading to more and more cou…
Lawmakers in Democratic Republic of Congo have introduced a bill to restrict the presidency to people with two Congolese parents, a move critics said on Friday aimed to block a millionaire businessman from challenging the president in the …
U.N. Security Council members on Thursday backed African Union mediation efforts between Ethiopia, Egypt and Sudan in a dispute over the operation of a giant hydropower dam on the Blue Nile in Ethiopia, urging the parties to resume talks.
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With the withdrawal of US and Nato troops nearing completion, direct foreign intervention in Afghanistan is ending after nearly 20 years.
US President Joe Biden has said that Afghans are going to have decide their own future.
We look…
Jacob Zuma has achieved political ignominy as the first former president of South Africa to be sent to prison.
His life as a free man - who enjoyed the perks of a former president - ended just before midnight local time, when in a drama…
A member of the ministerial committee currently probing the Ejura disturbances that led to two deaths and injuries to four other persons, Prof. Vladmir Antwi Danso, has expressed concern about the inclination of regional and District secur…
Disgraced US lawyer Michael Avenatti has been sentenced to 30 months in prison for attempting to extort up to $25m (£17.4m) from Nike.
Avenatti, 50, who represented adult film star Stormy Daniels in a lawsuit against President Donald Tr…
The Kenya Medical Research Institute (Kemri) will soon have access to the UK’s unique platform to analyse the Covid-19 virus.
Through the UK’s New Variant Assessment Platform Programme, the research institute will have access to the UK’…
South Africa has "vaccine security", a health department official said as the country announced the next stage of rollouts.
Dr Nicholas Crip, the deputy director-general in the health department, told TimesLive the country was in its "s…
Three political parties have welcomed the call to amend the date for holding of general elections in Ghana but contend that four months was rather a long period.
They have subsequently suggested that the elections should be held in Nove…
The Ranking Member on the Roads and Transport Committee of Parliament, Mr Governs Kwame Agbodza, has stated that the Pokuase interchange project was initiated by former President John Dramani Mahama as part of interventions to reduce traff…
President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo has reiterated that the New Patriotic Party government is better at protecting the public purse than the opposition National Democratic Congress.
Commissioning the Pokuase Interchange today in Accra…
Parliament has constituted a nine-member adhoc bipartisan committee to probe procurement contracts the government entered into with private companies for the procurement and supply of Sputnik-V vaccines.
The committee will determine the…
Jehan Sadat was sitting in the stands, just a few metres away from her husband, when gunmen opened fire at a military parade in Cairo.
Her life partner, Anwar - then president of Egypt - was hit by several bullets and died two hours lat…
Nigeria has announced its first confirmed case of the Delta variant of Covid-19.
The variant was detected in a traveller following a routine travel test required of all international visitors. An analysis in a lab in the capital Abuja c…
Rwanda has begun deploying 1,000 troops to Mozambique's Cabo Delgado province, where a militant insurgency has left thousands dead and millions displaced.
The troops consists of officers from the defence force and national police.
Th…
Mr Rockson Nelson Defeamakpor, Member of Parliament (MP) for South Dayi has justified government's decision to provide US$100,000 as car loans for MPs.
According to him all the other arms of government with the exception of the legislat…
Popular Nigerian televangelist TB Joshua is being buried in Lagos after a week of funeral rites.
Thousands of mourners are attending the burial service at his Synagogue, Church of All Nations (SCOAN) in the Ikotun area of Lagos.
The …
South Sudan is marking the tenth anniversary of its independence with little fanfare, its population advised to celebrate at home because of coronavirus.
The only official event a 10km run in the capital, Juba.
President Salva Kiir h…
South Africa's former President Jacob Zuma will be eligible for parole after four months of his 15-month jail sentence for contempt of court, the justice minister says.
Zuma handed himself in to police on Wednesday to begin his jail te…
All nine people have died on board an aeroplane carrying skydivers, that crashed in Sweden, police say.
The plane was carrying eight skydivers and a pilot when it crashed close to the runway at Orebro airport, about 160km (100 miles) we…
A group of 28 foreign mercenaries, including retired Colombian soldiers, assassinated Haiti's President Jovenel Moïse earlier this week, police say.
Most were detained after a gun battle at a house in the capital Port-au-Prince where th…
The Ministerial Committee investigating the circumstances that led to last week’s deaths in Ejura in the Ashanti has requested for an extension of the deadline to complete its work.
According to the committee, considering the testimonie…
The Municipal Chief Executive (MCE) for Ejura Sekyedumasi, Mr Mohammed Salisu Bamba has denied suggestions that two suspects currently in police custody in connection with the death of Macho Kaaka are his bodyguards.
Appearing before th…
The Youth Wing of the opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC) has hinted at challenging Parliament’s approval of salaries for the First and Second Ladies in the Supreme Court.
“The Youth Wing will in the coming days invoke the jur…
Police in the Democratic Republic of Congo have arrested the leader of the Mai-Mai militia, Kambale Kabamba.
The arrest took place in North Kivu province.
The police had pursued him over his alleged involvement in deadly attacks in t…
Nigeria's President Muhammadu Buhari has hailed security agencies for the arrest of Igbo separatist leader Nnamdi Kanu and the raid on Yoruba activist Sunday Adeyemo's home.
It's the first time the president has spoken about the arrest …
UK oil firm Cairn Energy has gained the right to seize Indian state assets in France worth more than €20m (£17m) as part of a long-running tax row.
A French tribunal ordered a freeze on about 20 properties in central Paris as Cairn incr…