Russia has agreed to release a second $500m loan to Belarus as Moscow stepped up its support for Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko amid outrage in the West about the grounding

Colonel Assimi Goita, Mali’s coup leader and newly appointed interim president, has been summoned to an emergency meeting of West African leaders in Ghana. At Sunday’s extraordinary summit, the 15-member

Authorities in Vietnam have detected a new coronavirus variant that is a hybrid of strains found in India and the United Kingdom, an official said. Nguyen Thanh Long, the Vietnamese

Nigeria’s Department of Petroleum Resources (DPR) on Saturday announced that it had concluded arrangements to issue award letters to successful investors in the 2020 marginal field bid round programme. In

The Minister of Industry, Trade and Investment, Mr. Niyi Adebayo and the Governor of Central Bank of Nigeria, Mr. Godwin Emefiele, would lead a delegation of Nigerian ministers, governors and

Prime Minister Boris Johnson has married his fiancee Carrie Symonds in a secret ceremony at Westminster Cathedral, it has been reported. The wedding was held in front of close friends

A former Nigerian President Goodluck Jonathan will on Sunday brief at least ten African Presidents of countries in the ECOWAS region on his fact-finding mission to Mali where he had gone to assess the situation and

Mali’s constitutional court has named the colonel who led a military coup this week as the country’s new interim leader. The ruling, issued late on Friday, said Assimi Goita would

Nigeria’s President Muhammadu Buhari has called on actors in the political crisis in Mali to come together for the peace and unity of the country. Mr Buhari stated this on

Kenya’s health ministry has advised hospitals to stop giving first doses of the AstraZeneca Covid-19 vaccines. Health Minister Mutahi Kagwe says a shipment arriving on Friday from global-sharing scheme Covax

Italian football club Juventus has sacked Andrea Pirlo as head coach and are close to announcing the return of Massimiliano Allegri to replace the football legend. 53-year-old Allegri is expected

Liverpool have signed centre-back Ibrahima Konate from RB Leipzig after agreeing to pay his £36m release clause. The 22-year-old made 21 appearances for Leipzig this season including eight Bundesliga starts

Nigeria’s President Muhammadu Buhari has appointed Major General Farouk Yahaya as the new Chief of Army Staff. Prior to his appointment Major General Yahaya was the General Officer Commanding 1