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…
Kenyan investigative reporter and TV anchor Victoria Rubadiri has won the 2020 BBC World News Komla Dumor Award. Rubadiri is a presenter with Citizen TV in…
Mali’s President Ibrahim Boubacar Keïta has resigned, after being detained by soldiers on Tuesday. In a televised address he said he was also dissolving the government…
Seven African countries will begin administering coronavirus antibody tests next week, the Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention has said. The testing is part of…
Liberia’s vice president and former first lady, Jewel Howard-Taylor, has been flown to Ghana for medical treatment after developing “respiratory complications,” her office said in a…
President Vladimir Putin said on Tuesday that Russia had become the first country in the world to grant regulatory approval to a COVID-19 vaccine after less…
Joe Biden has named Kamala Harris as his running mate, making the California senator the first Black and South Asian American woman to run on a major…
