The Zambian government has revoked a licence for one of the country’s most popular TV stations – Prime Television. The reason for revoking the licence wasn’t given but it came after the channel refused to air free coronavirus-awareness adverts The decision was announced by Josephine Mapoma, the director general of the Independent Broadcasting Authority (IBA), […]

Nowadays Rahinatou Diasso scolds her children when they wash with too much water. It has become a precious resource since Burkina Faso’s coronavirus curfew stopped those in poor areas from accessing communal fountains that only flow at night in the dry season. As a result, families like Diasso’s ration water and jostle in line to […]

The United States threatened Thursday to cut off Beijing-controlled China Telecom from serving the US market because of legal and security risks, the Justice Department announced Thursday. A recommendation by the government’s top departments, including Defense, State and Homeland Security, said that the Federal Communications Commission should “revoke and terminate” all authorizations for the Chinese […]

A California man was arrested this week after allegedly punching his mother — who had apparently hidden the family’s stash of toilet paper because of his excessive use of the hot commodity. Police were called to the family’s home in Saugus, north of Los Angeles, at 3:00 am Monday following a dispute over the whereabouts […]

As OPEC+ meeting will result in supply cut Oil prices rose on Thursday on expectations the world’s largest oil producers would agree to cut production at a meeting later in the day as the industry grapples with a coronavirus-driven collapse in global oil demand. Brent crude LCOc1 futures rose by almost 2.6%, or 87 cents, […]