Ethiopian Airlines, on Tuesday, resumed flying Boeing 737 MAX 8 aircraft, nearly three years after a fatal crash prompted global grounding of the model. In March 2019, Ethiopian Airlines flight 302, a Boeing 737 MAX 8 bound for Kenya, crashed six minutes after takeoff from Addis Ababa, Ethiopia’s capital, killing all 149 passengers and […]

  The African Union said Monday it had suspended Burkina Faso in response to the January 24 coup that ousted President Roch Marc Christian Kabore. The bloc’s 15-member Peace and Security Council said on Twitter it had voted “to suspend the participation of #BurkinaFaso in all AU activities until the effective restoration of constitutional order […]

The United Nations on Tuesday deplored the military takeover in Burkina Faso and called for the immediate release of President Roch Marc Christian Kabore and other top officials. The UN human rights office said it was crucial to preserve democratic space in the West African nation and ensure that the rule of law is respected. […]

Ibe Pascal Arogorn with agency report Soldiers in Burkina Faso announced over state television Monday that they had seized power in the West African nation and dissolved its government and parliament. They also said they had closed the country’s borders and promised a “return to constitutional order” within a “reasonable time”. More to follow….

Many people are feared dead following an explosion in Bogoso, a town in western Ghana. The Ghana police said a vehicle carrying mining explosives collided with a motorcycle in the town on Thursday. The police asked nearby towns to “open up their classrooms, churches to accommodate surviving victims”. “Preliminary investigation has established that a mining […]

Kaycee Madu, a Nigerian-born minister of justice and solicitor-general of Alberta, a province in Western Canada, has been asked to step aside from his ministerial position after he called the police over his traffic offence ticket. Jason Kenney, premier of Alberta, announced on Tuesday via a tweet that he has asked Madu to step aside […]

Mali’s former president Ibrahim Boubacar Keita, who led the West African country from 2013 until he was ousted in a coup in 2020, died at the age of 76 in the capital Bamako on Sunday, his family said. “President IBK died this morning at 0900 GMT in his home” in Bamako, a family member told […]

Taliban forces on Sunday fired pepper spray at a group of women protesters in Afghanistan’s capital demanding rights to work and education, three demonstrators told AFP. Since seizing control of the country by force in August, the Taliban authorities have imposed creeping restrictions on Afghans, especially on women. Around 20 women gathered in front of […]

The Taliban said Thursday they have approved their first budget for Afghanistan since the hardline Islamists returned to power in August, with no mention of foreign aid. International assistance represented 40 percent of Afghanistan’s GDP and made up 80 percent of its budget when the former US-backed government was in control. When it crumbled in […]