At least 22 people have died and several others have been hospitalised in India after drinking toxic alcohol, authorities said Thursday.
The deaths happened mainly in two villages in the eastern state of Bihar, where the sale and consumption of liquor are prohibited.
Such bans are in force in several Indian...
Ghana’s inflation rate rose to 50.3 percent in November, up from 40.4 percent in October — the highest rate since 2004.
Samuel Kobina Annim, Government Statistician for Ghana, announced this while speaking with journalists on Wednesday.
The announcement comes a day after Ghana secured a staff-level agreement with the International Monetary...
South Africa’s parliament has voted against starting impeachment proceedings against President Cyril Ramaphosa.
TheCable had reported that Ramaphosa was facing impeachment threats after an independent panel set up by the speaker of South Africa’s parliament said findings suggested that the president acted in a manner that was inconsistent with his...
US consumer inflation eased in November, bringing some relief to policymakers, according to government data released Tuesday, but the figure is still about three times the pre-pandemic pace.
The consumer price index (CPI), a closely-watched measure of inflation, jumped 7.1 percent from a year ago, down from 7.7 percent in...
The International Monetary Fund (IMF) and Ghana have reached a staff-level agreement for a three-year loan package of $3 billion.
The development means that the agreement still requires the approval of the IMF management and executive board as well as receipt of the necessary financing assurances by Ghana’s partners and...
Hundreds protested in Tunisia Saturday against President Kais Saied ahead of parliamentary elections that represented the latest consolidation of a power grab he began in July 2021.
The protests were organised by political parties that had been ‘marginalised’ by Saied – first by him firing the government and suspending parliament...
Peru’s leftist leader Pedro Castillo was impeached and replaced as president on Wednesday in a dizzying series of events in the country that has long been prone to political upheaval.
Dina Boluarte, a 60-year-old lawyer, was sworn in as Peru’s first female president just hours after Castillo tried to wrest...
At least 21 persons have been confirmed dead after a bus fell into a canal in northern Egypt on Saturday.
According to Al Jazeera, Sherif Makeen, an official of the ministry of health in Egypt, said three children were among the fatalities.
A total of 35 persons were said to be...
From the first openly lesbian governor to the first Generation Z member-elect of Congress, early results in the US midterms heralded diversity.
In Massachusetts, voters elected Democrat Maura Healey as America’s first out lesbian governor, TV networks projected.
The 51-year-old defeated Geoff Diehl, endorsed by ex-president Donald Trump, to flip the...
Donald Trump’s former White House spokesperson Sarah Huckabee Sanders won Tuesday’s gubernatorial race in heavily Republican Arkansas, US media projected.
She had been favored to beat Democrat Chris Jones in the southern state that her father, who ran twice for the Republican presidential nomination, governed from 1996 to 2007.
Sanders, 40,...
