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South African President, Cyril Ramaphosa, has congratulated Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala on her advancement into the final stage of the selection process for the position of the Director-General of the World Trade Organization. President Ramaphosa in a statement, noted that the Nigerian is the right person for the position as she has […]

The rape and murder in Algeria of a 19-year-old woman sparked cries for action on gender-based violence in the North African country and calls to bring back capital punishment. The body of the young woman, identified as Chaima, was found in early October at a deserted petrol station in Thenia, […]

American reggae and pop singer-songwriter, Johnny Nash, best known for the 1972 hit, I Can See Clearly Now, has died. He was aged 80. According to his son, Nash, whose health had been in decline, died at his home of natural causes on Tuesday. The musician began singing as a […]

Popular social media platforms Facebook and Twitter have taken action against posts from United States President Donald Trump for violating their rules against Coronavirus misinformation which compared Covid-19 to the flu. According to data from the company’s metric tool known as CrowdTangle, the post has been shared about 26,000 times […]

The editor of a Russian independent news site died on Friday after setting herself on fire following a police raid in a probe targeting an opposition group, Russia’s Investigative Committee The news site Koza.Press in the industrial city of Nizhny Novgorod reported that its editor-in-chief Irina Slavina had set herself […]

US President Donald Trump and First Lady Melania Trump have tested positive for coronavirus Mr Trump, aged 74 and therefore in a high-risk group, wrote on Twitter that they will get through this together. It comes after Hope Hicks, one of his closest aides, tested positive. Mr Trump’s announcement comes […]

South African government, on Wednesday announced the reopening of it’s borders. To that effect, it has reopened its borders to all African countries from Thursday while barring tourists from around 50 nations with high coronavirus infection rates. The continent’s most industrialised economy shuttered its borders at the start of a […]