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Oil prices jump on escalating crises in Middle East
Oil prices jumped on Friday while Asian markets tumbled, with global investors worrying about an escalation in conflict in the Middle East after...
ECOWAS Deploys A Fact-Finding Mission To Togo
The President of the ECOWAS Commission, H.E. Omar Alieu TOURAY, has deployed a Fact-Finding mission to Togo to interact with key stakeholders on...
Billionaire businesswoman gets lethal injection for embezzling $12bn
A Vietnamese court on Thursday sentenced Truong My Lan, the head of a real estate giant, to death in a fraud case totaling...
New York records 4.8 magnitude earthquake
The earthquake sent tremors from Philadelphia to Boston and jolting buildings in Manhattan and throughout the five boroughs. A 4.8 magnitude earthquake rumbled...
Nigeria’s Sen. Barau emerges acting Speaker of ECOWAS Parliament
Deputy Senate President Barau Jibrin emerged on Thursday in Abuja as acting Speaker of the sixth legislature of the Parliament of the Economic...
Tinubu calls for direct elections into ECOWAS parliament
President Bola Tinubu, at the swearing-in of 97 members into the parliament of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS), called for...
Senegal: New President names opposition leader, Sonko, Prime Minister
Left-wing pan-Africanist Bassirou Diomaye Faye became Senegal’s youngest president on Tuesday, pledging systemic change after years of deadly turmoil and announcing his mentor,...
Faye, 44, takes office as president of Senegal
The 44-year-old opposition candidate and Senegalese president-elect, Bassirou Diomaye Faye, on Tuesday took the oath of office. The inauguration took place at the...
63-year-old woman, teenage girl, two others killed in U.S. stabbing spree
A man armed with a knife went on a stabbing spree in the U.S. state of Illinois, killing four people, including a teenage...
Ex Guinea-Bissau President’s Son Jailed in U.S. for Drug Trafficking
Malam Bacai Sanha Jr, the son of a former president of Guinea-Bissau, has been sentenced to 80 months in prison for his involvement...
Togo dumps presidential system for parliamentary, adopts new constitution
Togolese lawmakers adopted a new constitution on Monday, moving the West African country from a presidential to a parliamentary system. Adopting the new...
U.S. state bars under-15 children from having social media accounts
Florida State Governor Ron DeSantis has signed a bill prohibiting children younger than 14 years from joining social media. According to reports, those...
U.S. bridge collapses after cargo ship collision, casualties feared
The Francis Scott Key Bridge in the US city of Baltimore collapsed after a ship collided with it, the Maryland Transportation Authority said...
Outgoing Pres. Sall congratulates Senegal’s opposition leader Faye on presidential poll victory
by Paul Ejime Outgoing Senegal’s President Macky Sall, on Monday congratulated opposition leader Bassirou Diomaye Faye on his victory in Sunday’s presidential election....
Senegal presidential poll: 44-year-old opposition leader, Bassirou Diomaye Faye, leads
Opposition leader Bassirou Diomaye Faye is leading in the early race in Senegal’s presidential election, according to local media. Several of the 17...
Moscow attack: Four suspects in custody, death toll hits 137
Russia has charged four men who, it says, attacked a Moscow concert hall and killed at least 137 people. All four appeared to...
