Since the beginning of the year, the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) has confirmed 21 cases of monkeypox, with one death reported. Monkeypox is
Category: Africa
Outrage in Senegal as 11 newborns died in a hospital fire.
President Macky Sall says 11 newborns died in a fire in a hospital’s neonatal section in Senegal. Only three babies were able to be spared.
Nigeria launches compulsory health insurance for the poor but lacks Doctors to implement it.
President Muhammadu Buhari announced intentions to establish a healthcare fund to assist up to 83 million impoverished individuals who cannot afford insurance charges at the
Ahmed Idris, Nigeria’s accountant general arrested on corruption charges involving $193m/N80b.
On Monday night, Nigeria’s economic crimes agency said that the country’s accountant general had been arrested on charges of diverting public funds and money laundering
The Nigerian Securities and Exchange Commission (NSE) has published crypto-asset regulations.
Nigeria’s markets regulator has produced a set of digital asset regulations, indicating that the continent’s most populous country is attempting to strike a balance between
Burkinabe miners trapped for 26 days; fate uncertain.
The families of eight missing miners in Burkina Faso awaited word from rescue crews on Thursday as they continued their search for the men who
Toxic UK asylum system to notify illegal migrants this week of their impending deportation to Rwanda.
The first group of unlawful migrants with no right to stay in the UK will be informed this week of the government’s intention to move
Africa is thrust into the spotlight by the global quest for metals.
The need to secure new metals sources for the energy transition, along with sanctions against Russia’s biggest producer, has raised Africa’s risk appetite for major
The Pope paid 1m euros to secure the release of a kidnapped nun.
A cardinal testified Thursday that Pope Francis allowed spending up to one million euros to liberate a Colombian nun kidnapped in Mali by al-Qaida-linked militants,
UN Guterres applauds Nigeria’s efforts toward rehabilitation and reintegration of Bandits and terrorists.
On Tuesday, United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres stated that expanding facilities to reintegrate surrendering Islamist rebels in northeastern Nigeria was a critical step toward attaining