image copyrightAFP As Ghana’s longest-serving leader, former flight lieutenant Jerry John Rawlings, who died on Thursday, was an influential figure for a generation of people like me born in the late 1970s.
British serial killer Peter Sutcliffe ― known as the Yorkshire Ripper ― has died in hospital after testing positive for Covid-19, it has been confirmed. Sutcliffe, who was serving 20 life terms for murdering 13 women and attempting
The COVID-19 pandemic has put a financial strain on a lot of countries across the world. One of those countries is Zambia. The country has had financial issues before Covid-19, but the effects of the pandemic have not made things any
BEIJING (AP) — China on Friday became one of the last major countries to congratulate U.S. President-elect Joe Biden, who is expected to make few changes to U.S. policy in conflicts with Beijing over trade, technology and security.
Dancing on Bolivia’s Salar de Uyuni, curfew measures in Bucharest, coronavirus testing in the U.K., monowheel broomsticks in Brazil, a marigold harvest in Kathmandu, celebrations of Joe Biden’s presidential win, a press conference at Philadelphia’s Four Seasons Total Landscaping, Veterans’
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At least 74 people drowned on Thursday when a rubber raft carrying migrants sank off the coast of Libya, the latest in a series of disasters in the world’s deadliest sea crossing, according to a United Nations agency. The motorized raft,
Jerry Rawlings, a former Ghanaian Air Force officer who led two military coups before steering his country toward democracy with an authoritarian hand, died on Thursday in the nation’s capital, Accra. He was 73. Mr. Rawlings died in a hospital “after
Sindika Dokolo, a wealthy Congolese art collector who crusaded for the return of African art removed during the colonial era by Western museums, art dealers and auction houses, but who became embroiled this year in investigations into how his Angolan
image copyrightReuters There’s been a slight increase in Covid-19 infections in Africa over the past few weeks, according to the latest information. The number of daily new cases has been rising gradually after declining since mid-July, according to the Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and the World Health Organization (WHO). But in…