Egyptian authorities have ordered the arrest of eight people over last week’s fatal train collision that killed 18 people, the AFP news agency reports, citing the prosecutor’s office. “The prosecutor

Nigeria’s President Muhammadu Buhari on Monday reassured of his administration’s commitment to fully utilise the enormous gas resources in the country to uplift the economy and drive industrialization. Mr Buhari

Two people have died in fresh clashes between protesters and Bangladesh police, raising the death toll from religious hardline protests against the visit of India’s Hindu-nationalist leader to 13, officials

Sudan has signed a declaration of principles that calls for freedom of religion and cultural identity in a democratic state. The Sudanese government also said the agreement seeks to separate

Sarah Obama, step-grandmother of the former US President Barack Obama has died at a hospital in Kenya at the age of 99. Her daughter Marsat, told the local Daily Nation

Resident doctors in Nigeria have said they will embark on an “indefinite strike” on Thursday over the government’s failure to meet its demands. The National Association of Resident Doctors (NARD)

Facebook said on Monday it planned two new undersea cables to connect Singapore, Indonesia and North America in a project with Google and regional telecommunication companies to boost internet connection

Firefighters in Indonesia are working to put out a massive fire that has broken out at one of the country’s largest oil refineries. The fire broke out at the Balongan

The governments of Katsina, Kaduna and Niger States have intensified efforts to free 109 abductees still in captivity, about three months after their abductions, investigation by THISDAY has shown. THISDAY

Nigeria’s federal government and the organised labour will reconvene by the middle of April for their negotiations to finalise decision on the adjustment of petrol price  and electricity tariff. However,

The Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) has so far paid a total of $3.118 billion cash-call debts owed the five major international oil companies (IOCs), leaving an outstanding debt of

Mexico has published revised figures indicating that the number of deaths caused by coronavirus is 60% higher than previously reported. More than 321,000 people are now believed to have died

Mozambique’s government has said dozens of civilians were killed in an attack this week on the northern town of Palma, including seven people whose convoy of vehicles was ambushed as

Mercedes Lewis Hamilton held off Max Verstappen’s Red Bull for victory in an extraordinary finish to the Bahrain Grand Prix. Verstappen actually took the lead from Hamilton with four laps

The stranded container ship blocking the Suez Canal for almost a week was re-floated on Monday and is currently being secured, Inchcape Shipping Services said, raising expectations the vital waterway