Tanzanian President John Magufuli has praised a senior government official for caning a group of secondary school students who were accused of setting fire to their dormitories. A widely-shared video shows regional commissioner Albert Chalamila administering beatings to a group of students who were lying face down, BBC reported. Earlier, a Tanzanian government minister had […]

Protests over fuel subsidy cuts in Ecuador have halted transport and blocked streets around the country for a second day on Friday as 350 people were jailed for unrest triggered by President Lenin Moreno’s austerity measures. The 66-year-old president has set oil producer Ecuador on a centrist path after years of leftist rule under Rafael […]

France’s anti-terror prosecutor has taken over the lead in investigating a knife attack in which an IT worker at police headquarters in Paris killed four co-workers before a police officer shot him dead. Officials have not said there was a terror motive behind Thursday’s attack in the centre of Paris near Notre-Dame cathedral, but the […]

United States President, Donald Trump, on Friday said Iranian President Hassan Rowhani wanted to meet him at the UN in September, but Washington refused to partially lift sanctions on Tehran as such, the meeting did not hold. “They were trying to set up a meeting but he wanted sanctions lifted. “Rowhani wanted a meeting at […]

Members of the Oromo community, the largest ethnic group in Ethiopia are trooping to the capital, Addis Ababa, to mark the annual Irreecha festival, an ancient thanksgiving ceremony. This is the first time the festival has been held in the capital city in over a century. Crowds have been gathering in the city dressed in […]