Botswana's Letsile Tebogo won a gold medal in the men's 200m sprint at the Paris Olympic Games on Thursday. Noah Lyles suffered an upset in the 200 metres on Thursday, settling for Olympic bronze for the second straight time in the event as Botswana's Letsile Tebogo won gold and American Kenny Be...
By Abdulwasiu Hassan The dread of what might happen can be as overpowering as experiencing that fear-inducing eventuality. Zahara Dattani, a Tanzanian running a nursing home in the UK, goes through this paralysing emotion every time news arrives of an immigrant being targeted in the ongoing riots...
UN and the World Food Programme (WFP) have called for more international support to aid humanitarian responses in Zimbabwe. Zimbabwe is facing a worsening food crisis due to El Niño weather patterns, the UN says. A new report released on Wednesday by the Office for the Coordination of Humanitaria...
Chidinma Adetshina's candidature in the Miss South Africa 2024 competition has drawn mixed reactions, with a number of people questioning her nationality. The South African government says an investigation has revealed that the mother of Miss South Africa 2024 contestant Chidinma Adetshina may ha...
Nuh Yilmaz says true peace in the Middle East can only be achieved by ending the Israeli occupation and implementing a two-state solution. Turkish Deputy Foreign Minister Nuh Yilmaz has strongly condemned Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's government for regional chaos, calling it extrem...
Israel's war on Gaza, now in its 307th day, has killed at least 39,699 Palestinians — mostly women and children — and wounded over 91,722 others, with 10,000+ estimated to be buried under debris of flattened buildings. Thursday, August 8, 2024 1242 GMT — The Israeli army issued new evacuation ord...
This week, Niger and Mali made separate announcements that they were cutting diplomatic ties with Ukraine, both accusing it of supporting terrorism in the Sahel region. Ukraine on Thursday said that Niger’s accusations toward itself are “groundless and untrue,” as the West African nation decided...
A boat in transit caught fire and killed at least 20 people in Nigeria's Bayelsa State on Wednesday. At least 20 people were killed when a wooden boat caught fire and exploded on a river in Nigeria's coastal state of Bayelsa on Wednesday, a police spokesperson said. The boat was carrying traders...
Mai sana'ar zanen ado 'yar kasar Kenya Shiko Onyango ta kirkiri nau'ikan zane na ado ka iya hawa jikin dan adam ga shahararru da suka hada da Angelique Kidjo. Yemi Alade da Muthoni. Daga Pauline Odhiambo Marubucin waka da wasan kwaikwayo Oscar Wilde ya ce ya kamata mutum ya zama mai ƙirƙirar kaya...
Armed groups often target villages, schools and travellers in the northern part of the country to demand ransom. Eleven people were killed Wednesday in an armed attack on a mining site in Nigeria's Zamfara state. Gunmen on motorcycles attacked the site in the Anka area, according to local media r...
Yaƙin kisan ƙare-dangin da Isra'ila take yi a Gaza, wanda a yau ya shiga kwana na 306, ya kashe Falasɗinawa aƙalla 39,653 — yawancinsu mata da yara — sannan ya jikkata mutum fiye da 91,535, yayin da mutum sama da 10,000 ke danne a ƙarƙashin ɓaraguzai Laraba, 7 ga watan Agusta, 2024 1309 GMT — Har...
Palestinian resistance group says that by assassinating “the flexible” Haniyeh, Israel chose war, not negotiations. And now Netanyahu will have to deal with Yahya Sinwar and “the military leadership”. When Hamas’s military commander Yahya Sinwar was elevated to the Palestinian resistance group’s...