Rights group: Burkina Faso’s army executed more than 200 civilians
Reading Time: 2 minutes Burkina Faso’s military forces summarily executed 223 civilians, including at least 56 children, in two villages in February, Human Rights […]
Global oil price eases after brief jump as Iran downplays attack
Reading Time: 2 minutes Oil and gold prices have eased after Iranian authorities appeared to downplay reports of an attack from Israel. Brent crude, […]
Patient’s pain as doctors strike hits 40th-day mark
Reading Time: 4 minutes Most of the beds at the labour ward of Kihara Level 4 Hospital on the outskirts of the Kenyan capital, […]
Israeli military’s intelligence chief resigns
Reading Time: 2 minutes The Israeli military’s intelligence chief has resigned, saying he took responsibility for the failures before Hamas’s attack on Israel on […]
Togo passes laws removing president’s term limits
Reading Time: < 1 minute Togo’s parliament has given final approval to a new constitution extending the president’s term, after critics denounced the move as […]
Deadly Africa heat caused by human-induced warming – study
Reading Time: < 1 minute Human-caused climate change contributed to an unusually intense and lethal hot spell throughout West Africa’s Sahel region in April, according […]
Russia to grow faster than all advanced economies – IMF
Reading Time: 2 minutes An influential global body has forecast Russia’s economy will grow faster than all of the world’s advanced economies, including the […]
IMF chief urges policymakers to ‘deal decisively with inflation and debt’
Reading Time: < 1 minute With a global growth outlook well below the historical average, and a growing divergence in economic fortunes, the head of […]