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Gambia’s finance ministry has appointed advisers to help put its debt on a “sustainable path,” the finance ministry said, on Monday. Gambia has been facing a heavy debt burden with the International Monetary Fund warning the country…

Police and fire officials, on Monday, were searching for the cause of a dramatic explosion in the northern Japanese city of Sapporo that collapsed a building and injured 42 people. Media reports said the Sunday night incident might have…

Attorneys for Bill Cosby on Tuesday outlined their grounds for appealing his sexual assault conviction. They cited what they called errors in legal procedure that may have biased the jury and warrant a new trial for the once-beloved…

Adult film actress Stormy Daniels must pay more than 290,000 dollars to reimburse President Donald Trump for legal fees he spent defending himself in a defamation lawsuit she brought against him over a tweet, a judge ruled. Daniels,…

The World Health Organisation (WHO) says Uzbekistan’s success in becoming recognised as a malaria-free country is an “extraordinary outcome”. Executive Director of the Global Fund, a UN-backed partnership to end malaria epidemics, Peter…

The European Union’s foreign ministers meeting in Brussels on Monday hoped the UK parliament would approve the bloc’s Brexit deal with British Prime Minister Theresa May. As the ministers were arriving for talks, the EU’s top court ruled…

United Nations Secretary-General, Antonio Guterres said, on Monday, that developed countries needed more migration due to their declining birth rates and ageing populations. He said this at the start of the conference in Marrakesh where…

Thousands of Human Rights Advocates and leftist activists took to the streets in the Philippine Capital on Monday to denounce President Rodrigo Duterte and his administration for “a succession of anti-people policies.’’ The demonstrators…

President Ali Bongo of Gabon who has been in hospital since October has suffered a stroke. Vice President Pierre Claver Maganga Moussavou provided the first official details of his President’s illness. The 59-year-old leader left hospital…

The United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) and Accenture have launched YAS! (Youth for Africa and Sustainable Development Goals), a pan-African entrepreneurship portal-platform with a two-day programme, in Lagos. The Portal-Platform…