Category: WORLD NEWS

Three candidates are in the running to lead the Eurogroup panel of eurozone finance ministers, a once powerful gathering that has lost lustre since the debt crisis, it was announced…

South Africa is considering using the drug dexamethasone to treat coronavirus patients, the country’s president said on Wednesday night. In a televised address, President Cyril Ramaphosa said his government was…

Russia on Thursday confirmed 7,790 new coronavirus cases, raising the total number of infections to 561,091. The death toll in the country rose to 7,660, as 182 more people lost…

There were 717 rapes in Nigeria between January and May this year, amounting to one rape every five hours, the country’s police chief says. Mohammed Adamu described rape as a…

Kenya plans to discharge nearly all asymptomatic Covid-19 patients to free-up space in congested hospitals. The government has released guidelines for home-based care for discharged patients, which include at least…

A Norwegian court has sentenced a gunman to 21 years in prison – with a minimum term of 14 years – for killing his teenage step-sister and opening fire at…

A priest has taken on government for saying that church members must use alcohol-based hand sanitizers in church to reduce the spread of the novel coronavirus, stressing that the use…

Burundi’s President Pierre Nkurunziza, aged 55, has died of a heart attack, the government says. He was admitted to hospital on Saturday after feeling unwell, his condition improved but on…

Equatorial Guinea is “severely affected” by the coronavirus, the World Health Organization’s (WHO) Africa head said on Thursday, as its representative in the country was told to leave. The Central…

Russian air strikes have hit Syria’s last major rebel bastion for the first time since a March ceasefire came into force, a war monitor said on Wednesday. The Russian strikes…