APA
Four people were killed and several others injured after a minibus collided with a trailer truck in the Guinean capital Conakry on Thursday.
A preliminary UN investigation into a massacre reportedly carried out in western Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) last month, reveals that “at least 535 civilians were killed in four attacks”, the UN Mission in the country, MONUSCO, said on Wednesday.
Rwanda was ranked at the 48th place at global level and 4th in Africa on the scale of corruption perception index for 2018 obtained Thursday from the Berlin-based corruption watchdog – Transparency International.
Tanzania’s former, Jakaya Kikwete, will lead the Commonwealth Observer Group for the general elections in Nigeria, scheduled for 16 February
Sierra Leone’s President Julius Maada Bio’s flagship free education scheme has received a major boost with a US$17.2million grant from the Global Partnership on Education (GPE).
Sierra Leone’s main opposition All Peoples Congress (APC) has vowed not to honor the Commission of Enquiry if its demands are not met, APA has learnt in Freetown.
Sierra Leone is planning a year-long campaign to raise awareness on cancer and its devastating impact in the country, APA learnt in Freetown on Thursday.
Some 28 doctors in Sudan are still being detained despite a government claim that they have been released, the country’s main medical syndicate claimed on Thursday.
The President of the Alliance for a Green Revolution in Africa (AGRA), Dr Agnes Matilda Kalibata has been awarded the 2019 Public Welfare Medal by the US-based National Academy of Sciences (NAS) for her work to drive Africa’s agricultural transformation through modern science and effective policy, according to an official statement obtained in Kigali on Thursday.
The ongoing by-election at Ayawaso West Wuogon Constituency in Accra to elect a new legislator to replace the late Emmanuel Agyarko, whose second wife Lydia Seyram Alhassan, is a candidate for the ruling New Patriotic Party (NPP) has been marred by violence.