Seven million Tunisians headed to the polls on Sunday in the country’s second presidential election since its 2011 revolution, faced with a crowded list of candidates, uncertainty and widespread disillusion over the country’s progress in the past eight years. Twenty-six candidates are running in the unpredictable first round. They include the media mogul Nabil Karoui, […]

Iran has dismissed US accusations that it was responsible for a series of explosive drone attacks on the world’s largest petroleum processing facility in Saudi Arabia that disrupted more than half of the kingdom’s oil output and could affect global supplies. Yemen’s Iran-aligned Houthi rebel group claimed responsibility for launching waves of drones at state-owned […]

Saudi stocks plunged 2.3% as the market opened on Sunday, after attacks on two plants at the heart of the kingdom’s oil industry Saturday knocked out more than half of Saudi crude output. Sunday’s decline extended a losing spree for Saudi stocks, which in recent weeks have been hit by expensive valuations, weak oil prices […]

Schoolchildren in the South African city of Durban have been telling the BBC how they feel about the recent wave of xenophobic attacks in the country. The students, some of whom are from Zimbabwe and Ethiopia, told BBC What’s New? about the importance of accepting people from other countries as a way of learning about different […]

G5 Sahel Heads of State have expressed their support for “Desert to Power’’, an Africa Development Bank (AfDB) initiative designed to harness solar energy for socio-economic development of member countries. They gave the support at the G5 Sahel Heads of State Summit in Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso. NAN reports that in 2014, Burkina Faso, Chad, Mali, Mauritania, […]

UN Secretary-General António Guterres has called for inclusion in the democratic process of all member states. In a message to mark the 2019 International Day of Democracy, Guterres noted that democracy was about the people. He urged every government to respect their citizens’ right to “meaningful participation” in the political process. The International Day of Democracy […]

Saudi de facto ruler Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman told United States (US) president, Donald Trump by telephone that Riyadh had the will and capability “to confront and deal with this terrorist aggression,” according to Saudi state news agency SPA. The United States condemned the attacks and Trump told the crown prince that Washington was […]

Yemen’s Iran-aligned Houthi group said it attacked two plants at the heart of Saudi Arabia’s oil industry on Saturday, knocking out more than half the kingdom’s output, in a move expected to send oil prices soaring and increase tension in the Middle East. The attacks will cut the kingdom’s output by 5.7 million barrels per […]

Congo’s National Ebola Response Committee says confirmed Ebola deaths in the east of the sprawling African nation are nearing 2,000 and confirmed cases of the virus have exceeded 3,000. According to VOA report, the committee released the latest numbers Friday after a discussion in Goma by the Catholic Church and the Anglican Church about efforts […]

The body of William Moldt, a 40-year-old Florida man who was reported missing in November of 1997, has been found. And it’s all thanks to Google Maps, strangely enough. According to Gizmodo, Barry Fay, a 50-year-old resident of Wellington, Florida, called the police after a neighbour told him there was a car in the pond […]

South African President Cyril Ramaphosa was booed by the crowd in the stadium after a wave of deadly riots and xenophobic attacks in South Africa earlier this month that triggered international anger. The attacks mainly targeted shops owned by African migrants. The master of ceremony was forced to appeal to the crowd to give Ramaphosa […]

Zimbabwe’s founder and former president, Robert Mugabe was honoured as an icon, principled leader and African intellectual giant at a state funeral on Saturday, after a week of disputes over his burial threatened to embarrass President Emmerson Mnangagwa. Mugabe led Zimbabwe for 37 years, from independence until he was ousted by the army on November […]

…Denies any wrongdoing Police in the Democratic Republic of Congo have arrested a former health minister of the country for allegedly mismanaging funds allocated for the Ebola epidemic. Oly Ilunga resigned as health minister in July after being stripped of responsibility for the fight against Ebola. According to BBC Africa, Police said they detained him […]

A schoolgirl who is ‘too big’ for her school uniform according to her school management has been forced to sit in isolation or stay at home because her skirt doesn’t match uniform requirements. MailOnline relates Kada Jones, 14, school resumption story. She returned to school after the summer holidays to begin her first term in […]

A toilet made entirely of 18-carat-gold has been stolen from Blenheim Palace in Oxfordshire, England, the stately home where former British prime minister Winston Churchill was born. The fully functioning toilet was installed as part of an exhibition by Italian artist Maurizio Cattelan titled “Victory is Not an Option,” which only opened to the public […]