A cholera outbreak in Nigeria’s northeast has killed nearly 100 people over the past two weeks and infected thousands more, the United Nations said. The number of recorded cases in Yobe and Borno states currently stands at 3,126, including 97 deaths, the UN Office for the Coordination of Read More

The Trump administration on Saturday said it would propose making it harder for foreigners to come to the United States or remain there if they have received or are likely to receive public benefits such as food aid, public housing or Medicaid. The proposed regulation from the Department of Homeland Security would expand immigration officers’ […]Read More

Several people have been killed after unknown gunmen opened fire during a military parade in the southwestern Iranian city of Ahvaz, state television reported. “Several gunmen began shooting from behind the stand during the parade. There are several killed and injured,” a correspondent told state television. The semi-official Fars news agency, which is close to Read More

Like most disease outbreaks, the authorities have banned public meetings while the police have removed streets vendors and food stalls due to hygiene concerns. “We have dismantled boreholes and dangerous wells and we have increased our water supply to cope with the epidemic,” Mayor of Harare Hebert Gomba said. The officials said they were doing […]Read More

Police have launched investigation after a 29 year old woman was found dead at her house in Luciane apartments on Kitale Lane, off Dennis Pritt road, Nairobi on Thursday afternoon. The body of Monicah Nyawira Kimani was found inside a bathtub by her sister who came visiting. The sister told police they had to break […]Read More

A convicted South African fraudster has been charged over a racist rant against the country’s President Cyril Ramaphosa on social media. Kessie Nair was charged at Verulam Magistrates Court with inciting violence and crimen injuria, or injuring a person’s dignity. He will stay in custody until his bail application is heard on 26 September. Mr […]Read More

The relaunch has been suspended for strategic reasons and had nothing to do with politics, aviation minister said. Nigeria is suspending the relaunch of its national airline just over two months after it announced the new venture, the country’s aviation minister has said. The government had planned to launch the prestige project in December to […]Read More

Nur Bekri is one of China’s most senior Uighur officials and a former governor of the restive region of Xinjiang. He also serves as a deputy head of China’s state planning agency, the National Development and Reform Commission. The Central Commission for Discipline Inspection announced the investigation in a brief posting on its website. It […]Read More

US President Donald Trump has said he does not “have an attorney general” in his fiercest attack yet on Jeff Sessions. In an interview with Hill.TV, Mr Trump renewed criticism of Mr Sessions’ decision to step aside from the inquiry into alleged Russian interference in the 2016 election. He also said he was unhappy with […]Read More

The United States has an abundance of natural gas that pollution-riddled China badly needs to wean itself off coal. Eying China’s voracious demand, Cheniere Energy, ExxonMobil (XOM) and other American energy companies are racing to build more than two dozen expensive facilities to export liquefied natural gas, which is super-cooled natural gas that can be […]Read More