FOREIGN NEWS

A Russian strike on a Ukrainian railway station killed 22 people and wounded 50 others, President Volodymyr Zelensky said Wednesday as his country marked six months of war with Moscow. The strike comes as Ukraine marks Independence Day, commemorating its separation from the Soviet Union in 1991. It also comes as the country enters its […]

Fighting erupted between government forces and Tigrayan rebels in northern Ethiopia on Wednesday, shattering a five-month truce and dealing a blow to peace efforts. Reports of fresh offensives were followed by Ethiopia’s air force announcing it had downed a plane carrying weapons for the Tigray People’s Liberation Front (TPLF). The government of Prime Minister Abiy […]

A total of 23,495 people has tested positive for human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) in Ghana for the first half of this year. The figures represented two per cent of the 948,094 people who undertook HIV testing from January to June 2022 as reported by African News on Wednesday. The Programme Manager of the National STIs […]

Inflation in South Africa accelerated to its highest level in 13 years in July, pushed mainly by surging food, transport and electricity prices, official data showed Wednesday as workers staged protests over the high cost of living. Consumer prices rose at an annual rate of 7.8 percent in July, up from 7.4 percent in June, […]

Adalberto Costa Junior, leader of Angola’s UNITA party Angolan presidential candidates on Monday wrapped up a month-long campaign ahead of this week’s election which is likely to be a tense standoff between a ruling party in power for decades and an opposition with growing appeal among youth. The MPLA, led by João Lourenço since 2017, […]

Former US president Donald Trump filed a lawsuit Monday urging a court to name an independent party to screen files that the FBI seized from his Florida home for materials protected by personal privilege. Claiming in a court filing that he had been targeted for political reasons, Trump demanded that a “special master” be named […]

A journalist was shot dead Monday afternoon in southern Mexico, authorities said, shortly after posting online about the disappearance eight years ago of 43 students from a nearby area. Fredid Roman, who published his work on various social media pages and contributed to a local newspaper, was found dead in his car in the city […]

Nigeria and the United States government have reached an agreement on the return of over $23 million of the Abacha loot. The agreement signing ceremony was held in the office of the Minister of Justice and Attorney General of the Federation, Mr. Abubakar Malami on Tuesday. While Mr. Malami signed on behalf of the Nigerian […]

Facebook-owner Meta said Thursday it had kicked one of the most influential US anti-vaccination groups off the social media network for spreading COVID-19 misinformation. The Children’s Health Defense (CHD), which has been a critic of Covid vaccines, immediately accused Meta of stifling its free speech rights. Meta spokesperson Aaron Simpson told AFP that the group’s […]

Paraguay’s Vice President Hugo Velazquez, who resigned last week after being sanctioned by Washington for “significant corruption,” said Thursday he would remain in his post after all. He told reporters he had initially offered to resign as he “assumed” there was a domestic investigation against him. But on Wednesday, he received notice from the Paraguay […]