Cameroon’s opposition leader, Maurice Kamto, was placed under house arrest for planning Tuesday’s anti-government protests. A video showing police vehicles outside the leader’s house has been…
Kanye West has expanded his tirade against label ownership of musicians’ master recordings, this time adding that Prince and Michael Jackson were “killed” by the music and media industries. “We used to…
Six universities have banned sex between lecturers and students and two authors have claimed that more should be doing the same. The measures came into place…
The US state department has announced economic sanctions against Zineb Jammeh, the wife of Gambia’s former President, Yahya Jammeh. Zineb is believed to have assisted or…
South Africa’s Health Minister, Dr Zweli Mkhize says new research estimates 12 million people – about 20% of the country’s population – could already have been…
Barbados has announced its intention to remove the Queen as its head of state and become a republic next year. The Caribbean island said it wants…
Lawmakers in Nigeria’s Kaduna State have approved surgical castration as punishment for those convicted of raping children under the age of 14. State governor Nasir Ahmad…
Europe’s largest migrant camp, Moria, has been “completely destroyed” after massive fires broke out early Wednesday at the overcrowded site on Greece’s Lesbos island, according to…
South Africa’s governing African National Congress (ANC) has called US President Donald Trump “divisive, misogynistic and disrespectful” in response to reports that he was dismissive about…
The Trump administration has indicated that it will not participate in international coalition efforts to find and distribute a vaccine for Covid-19 because the World Health…
