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By: Jaushieh Joseph Wu, Minister of Foreign Affairs Republic of China (Taiwan) After more than 200 million infections and over 4 million deaths and counting, the COVID-19 pandemic has raged across the globe. This has created a profoundly devastating socio-economic impact on our interconnected world, with...

By:REUTERS  U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres warned the Security Council on Thursday that a conflict in Ethiopia has spread beyond the northern Tigray region and "a humanitarian catastrophe is unfolding before our eyes." Ethiopia has been embroiled in a conflict that flared nine months ago in Tigray...

By:BBC AFRICA A suspected suicide bomber has been arrested in Uganda for planning to blow up mourners at the funeral of an army commander known as “the Lion of Mogadishu". Maj-Gen Paul Lokech earned his nickname from the time he headed the African Union force in...

By: BBC AFRICA Algeria has announced it will not renew a gas-supply agreement with Morocco days after severing diplomatic relations with its North African neighbour. Rabat is currently taking 900,000 cubic metres per year of Algerian natural gas from the Maghreb-Europe pipeline, which runs from Algeria...

By:BBC AFRICA Nigeria’s state oil company has made a profit for the first time in its 44-year history, the government has announced. President Muhammadu Buhari, who is also the senior petroleum minister, said this was in line with the "prudent management of resources". The 2020 profit of...

By:BBC AFRICA A government-licensed recruiting agency based in Nigeria’s capital Abuja is conducting interviews for doctors to work in Saudi Arabia. It is coming at a time resident doctors across the country under the Nigerian Association of Resident Doctors are on a strike over poor pay...

By: BBC AFRICA Mali's former Prime Minister Boubèye Maïga has been arrested over alleged corruption during the purchase of a presidential plane seven years ago. His lawyer Kassoum Tapo said details about his Thursday arrest were still unclear. Mr Maïga is said to have been involved in...

By:BBC AFRICA Rwanda will host dozens of schoolgirls being relocated from Afghanistan following the takeover of their country by Taliban militants. Shabana Basij-Rasikh, the founder of a privately run School of Leadership, Afghanistan (Sola), said on Tuesday that about 250 students, staff and family members were...

By:BBC AFRICA Morocco has rejected reasons put forward by Algeria in its decision to sever diplomatic relations with its North African neighbour. Algerian Foreign Minister Ramtane Lamamra announced his country’s decision on Tuesday to cut all ties with Morocco for "hostile acts". Algiers accused its neighbour of...

By: BBC AFRICA The youngest competitor at the Paralympic Games, 14-year-old Ugandan swimmer Husnah Kukundakwe, has set a personal best record. She said she hoped her success would help change attitudes towards people with disabilities in her home country. Kukundakwe failed to make the 100-metre breaststroke final...