Janet Yellen won overwhelming Senate confirmation as the first woman to lead the US Treasury on Monday, setting her quickly to work with Congress on coronavirus relief, reviewing US sanctions policy and strengthening financial regulation. The Senate, according to Reuters, voted 84-15 to confirm Yellen,
Infamous ivory, rhinoceros horn poacher and drug trafficker Abubakar Mansur Mohammed Surur alias Mansour were extradited from Kenya to New York over the weekend, coming
President Cyril Ramaphosa of South Africa on Tuesday urged wealthy countries to stop hoarding excess Covid-19 vaccines that they had ordered but did not immediately
In what many Nigerians consider long overdue given their years of service and escalating insecurity in the country, President Muhammadu Buhari of Nigeria has sacked the country's services chiefs.The president, in a message through his spokesperson, Femi Adesina, immediately announced their replacements.The service chiefs, it
Italian Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte submitted his resignation Tuesday to President Sergio Mattarella, in a bid to form a new, stronger government. The president accepted
Sibusiso Moyo, the foreign minister of Zimbabwe, has died of Covid-19, the government said on Wednesday. Retired General Moyo, who was a prominent figure in the toppling of long term ruler, Robert Mugabe, in 2017 and later announced on state television that's the late Mugabe was
Malian security forces used tear gas on Wednesday to disperse an unsanctioned protest in the capital Bamako against France's military presence in the country, one
Former Nigeria international goalkeeper and later an assistant coach to the Super Eagles, Joseph Eric, better known as Erico, is dead. He was nicknamed ‘Erico’
The AFP reports that the Central African Republic on Thursday announced a 15-day emergency as armed groups tried to blockade the capital, Bangui, in a bid to topple newly re-elected President Faustin-Archange Touadera. Thursday's declaration came hours after the United Nations envoy to the country called