A special unit set up to probe deaths in care homes linked to Covid-19 is investigating 474 such places in Scotland, the BBC reported on Friday. In a story on its website, the public broadcaster, Iol reports, said the unit, Crown Office, which was set
Due to the escalating cases of coronavirus pandemic in the country, Nigeria expects to take delivery of its first coronavirus vaccine doses in February. According
In what will most certainly go down as Africa's first big shipment of the vaccines for the coronavirus pandemic, Morocco, on Friday, received 2 million
The United Nations says it has received "disturbing" reports of sexual violence and abuse in Ethiopia's conflict-hit Tigray region, including of individuals forced to rape members of their own family. Pramila Patten, the UN's special representative on sexual violence in conflict, said she was greatly
After Somalia denied sending troops to fight in the northern Tigray part of Ethiopia during a government crackdown, the Ethiopian Government has also denied that
Donald Trump left a letter to his successor Joe Biden before leaving the White House, spokesman Judd Deere told AFP minutes after the outgoing president's departure. Trump, who refused to accept his defeat for more than two months, never congratulated Biden on his victory. "We
Ahead of the inauguration of president-elect, Joe Biden's inauguration today, Google-owned YouTube has confirmed it has extended a ban on new videos being added to
Violence continued unabated on Monday in the troubled Darfur A region in Sudan, as militia fighters staged a deadly attack, residents said, as doctors said the death toll from a separate attack that began two days earlier in the region had risen to more than