World

  China has enforced new rules governing school disciplinary methods, banning physical punishment and verbal abuse in primary and secondary schools. The outlaw of corporal punishment and verbal abuse came into force on Monday, March 1. Educators are now...

    Following her appointment in February 15, Dr. Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala has resumed official duties as the Director-General of the World Trade Organization, WTO. The former Nigerian Finance Minister who is the first woman and African...

    Tanzanian Professor of Life Sciences and Bio-Engineering, Hulda Swai, has been declared the 2020 winner of the African Union Kwame Nkrumah Continental Awards for Scientific Excellence. Her work with nanotechnology has helped to study...

    Ugandan government has told the United States to go "fix its own elections" rather than give "lectures" to Uganda about elections. Government Spokesman, Ofwono Opondo was quoted by the state-linked New Vision disregarding the...

  Mozambique has joined the list of early receivers of the Covid-19 vaccine in Africa, as it acquired its first batch of 200,000 doses of the Sinophram vaccine from the Chinese government. The country’s Prime Minister...

President Muhammadu Buhari has expressed grief over the death of former Saudi Arabia’s longest serving Oil Minister, Sheikh Ahmed Yamani who died at a London hospital at age 90. In a statement by his Media Assistant,...