Category: Africa and the rest of the world

denies giving US tapes Turkey on Friday widened the investigation into the disappearance of journalist Jamal Khashoggi after his visit to the Saudi consulate, by searching a forest in the city. Ankara also denied giving any audio recording to US officials from the investigation about Khashoggi, a former royal insider who moved to the United […]

British Prime Minister, Theresa May took pains on Friday to reassure more than 130 British business leaders that her government would deliver friction-less trade with the European Union after Brexit. May’s conference call with representatives of firms ranging from the accounting firm EY to the retailer Tesco came after a summit in Brussels this week […]

Tanzania’s Inspector-General of Police, Simon Sirro, on Friday, said police have identified the vehicle used to abduct east Africa’s youngest billionaire, Mohammed Dewji, nine days ago. Sirro said the vehicle came from a neighbouring country which he, however, did not name at a news conference in the business capital, Dar es Salaam. Dewji, the country’s […]

A court in Benin on Thursday sentenced opposition politician, Sebastien Ajavon, to 20 years in prison on drugs charges and issued an international warrant for his arrest. The former presidential candidate was not at the hearing in the West African country’s administrative capital, Porto-Novo, which lasted less than an hour. His legal team has previously […]

Caption: In this file photo taken on April 10, 2017, mourners carry a large cross and the coffin of one of the victims of the blast at the Coptic Christian Saint Mark’s church in Alexandria the previous day during a funeral procession at the Monastery of Marmina in the city of Borg El-Arab, east of […]

Vladimir Putin landed in Delhi where he and Narendra Modi were due to have dinner before the main talks on Friday Russian President Vladimir Putin arrived in India on Thursday looking to tie up billions of dollars in arms deals with Prime Minister Narendra Modi, likely irking the US, China and Pakistan in one fell […]

– pledges Nigeria’s help for Sudan President Muhammadu Buhari on Tuesday admitted that it has not been smooth sailing for Nigeria all the way. Despite this, however, he said Nigeria was prepared to help South Sudan stabilise politically and economically. According to a statement by his Special Adviser on Media and Publicity, Mr. Femi Adesina, […]

American President Donald Trump, has said that he and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un “fell in love” over the course of their on-again off-again detente, hours after Pyongyang’s top diplomat said there was “ no way” the country would disarm under current conditions. “He wrote me beautiful letters,” Trump said of Kim Saturday during […]

President Muhammadu Buhari on Saturday sympathised with the government and people of Indonesia over the latest Tsunami and earthquake that hit that country’s Central Sulawesi Island. In a statement by his Senior Special Assistant on Media and Publicity, Garba Shehu, the President said the natural disaster, which claimed nearly 400 lives, was devastating beyond description. […]