Lawmakers in Mississippi are to vote Sunday on removing the Confederate battle standard from the flag of the southern US state, after weeks of convulsive anti-racism protests drew renewed attention to such symbols of the nation’s racist past. Lopsided votes in both houses of the state’s legislature Saturday, following weeks of mounting pressure and hours […]

One of the black police officers at the scene of the killing of George Floyd by a white officer in Minneapolis in May has a Nigerian father. Alex Kueng who joined the police largely because he believed diversity could force change in a Police Department long accused of racism, New York Times reported that Mr Floyd, […]

A 30-year-old woman was reported to drown while trying to save her five-year-old boy who drowned while swimming in Germany’s Rhine River. The accident happened in Treburg in the state of Hesse on Saturday, police said. After the boy disappeared, his mother tried to save him, but she also got into trouble and a passer-by […]

The Archbishop of Canterbury, Justin Welby has recommended that Western churches should reconsider their portrayal of Jesus’ image. According to Welby while speaking in a BBC Today Programme monitored by CNN, Jesus’ image does not necessarily has to be a white man. He said he has been to different countries and they portray the image […]

Malawi’s opposition leader Lazarus Chakwera was sworn in Sunday as the southern African country’s new president after winning the re-run of a hotly disputed election. It was a dramatic reversal of fortune for the incumbent Peter Mutharika, whose victory in a May 2019 ballot was overturned by the Constitutional Court over fraud allegations. Chakwera, a […]