Top Burkina court certifies President Kabore’s re-election
OUAGADOUGOU, Dec 20 (NNN-AGENCIES) — Burkina Faso’s top court, the Constitutional Council, certified that President Roch Marc Christian Kabore had…
Covid-19: French Pres Macron ‘stable’ after virus infection – presidency
PARIS, Dec 20 (NNN-AGENCIES) — The condition of French President Emmanuel Macron, who has tested positive for the coronavirus, is…
Covid-19: Pres-elect Biden to receive vaccine Monday
WASHINGTON, Dec 20 (NNN-AGENCIES) — US President-elect Joe Biden and his wife, Jill Biden, will get their first shot of…
US says cyberattack ‘under control,’ Pres Trump plays down Russian role
WASHINGTON, Dec 20 (BSS/AFP) – President Donald Trumpdownplayed a massive cyberattack on US goverment agencies,declaring it “under control” and undercutting…
Covid-19: US Congress agrees stopgap to avert shutdown
WASHINGTON, Dec 20 (NNN-AGENCIES) — US lawmakers struggling to reach a critical pandemic relief and federal spending deal struck a…
Covid-19: Latest global developments
PARIS, Dec 20 (NNN-AGENCIES) — Here are the latest developments in the coronavirus crisis: VACCINES: Poorer countries will begin to…
Covid-19: IMF chief says 62% of lending has gone to 21 countries in Latin America
WASHINGTON, Dec 18 (NNN-AGENCIES) — Sixty-two percent of the International Monetary Fund’s lending in response to the coronavirus pandemic has…
Nigeria: More than 300 schoolboys released after mass kidnapping
Boarding school children return home after the abduction of students by gunmen at the Government Science Secondary school, in Kankara…
Overdose drug deaths in US rise during Covid-19
WASHINGTON, Dec 18 (NNN-AGENCIES) — The Covid-19 pandemic has fuelled a rise in fatal drug overdoses in the United States,…
Covid-19: Africa confronts a second wave as new cases emerges in east, north and south regions
PRETORIA, Dec 18 (NNN-AGENCIES) — After being relatively spared bycoronavirus, Africa is bracing for the pandemic’s second wave, noting how…