Ghana’s economy shrank 3.2 per cent in the second quarter for the first time in 37 years as a result of the coronavirus pandemic, the country’s chief statistician said Wednesday. The West African nation of 30 million inhabitants imposed a three-week lockdown in parts of the country, including the capital Accra, in March to curb […]

The IMF on Wednesday approved the release of another $1 billion in lending for Angola as its economy struggles with the Covid-19 downturn and global drop in crude prices. The Washington-based crisis lender also increased by $765 million the size of the three-year aid program for the southern African nation to help it deal with […]

A whistleblower nurse and lawyers have identified a surgeon, who performed hysterectomies (uterus removal procedure) on immigrants at a detention facility in Georgia, USA.

France’s highest court ruled Wednesday that a transgender woman cannot be officially recognised as the biological mother of the child she conceived with her wife, in a ruling described as “scandalous” by her lawyer. To become one of the six-year-old girl’s two legal mothers, the 51-year-old transgender woman would have to adopt her, the Cour […]

Japan’s Yoshihide Suga was voted prime minister by parliament on Wednesday to become the country’s first new leader in nearly eight years, appointing a new cabinet that kept about half of the familiar faces from predecessor Shinzo Abe’s lineup. Suga, 71, Abe’s longtime right-hand man, has pledged to pursue many of Abe’s programmes, including his […]