France bears “heavy and overwhelming responsibilities” over the 1994 Rwanda genocide, a report by French historians says, but they found no evidence of French complicity. The…
A new double mutant variant of the coronavirus and 771 others have been detected in samples collected from 18 states across India. Of the 10,787 samples,…
Kenya has run out of ICU beds as the country deals with a surge in Covid-19 cases, the doctors’ union has said. Healthcare workers were among…
The government in Niger says the number of people now known to have been killed in attacks on Sunday by suspected Islamist militants is 137. Three…
A gunman has killed 10 people, including a police officer, following an hour-long standoff at a grocery market in the US state of Colorado. The attack…
The leading opposition presidential candidate in Congo-Brazzaville has died of Covid-19. Guy Brice Parfait Kolelas, 61, was set to be flown to France on Sunday afternoon…
An Italian court has cleared two global oil giants, Eni and Shell, over allegations of corruption in Nigeria. The long-running case centered around the $1.3bn (£936m)…
Tanzania’s President John Magufuli has died aged 61, the country’s vice-president has announced. He died on Wednesday from heart complications at a hospital in Dar es…
The city of Minneapolis has reached a $27m (£19m) settlement with the family of George Floyd, the unarmed US black man whose death last May sparked…
The US senators for New York joined growing calls for Andrew Cuomo to resign as a seventh woman came forward with allegations of sexual misconduct against…
