The son and one-time heir apparent of late Libyan dictator Moammar Gadhafi announced Sunday his candidacy for the country’s presidential election next month, Libya’s election agency said. Seif al-Islam, who

UN climate talks ended Saturday with a deal that for the first time targeted fossil fuels as the key driver of global warming, even as coal-reliant countries lobbed last-minute objections.

Though President Muhammadu Buhari is yet to sign into law the Electoral Act (Amendment) Bill, 2021, passed this week by the National Assembly, which, among other things, makes direct primaries

FW de Klerk, the last president of apartheid South Africa and a key actor in the country’s transition to democracy, has died. The FW de Klerk Foundation’s spokesperson Dave Steward

Warsaw accuses Minsk of trying to trigger a major confrontation along the frontier as months-long border crisis escalates. Poland says it has repelled an attempt by hundreds of migrants and

With the supplementary poll in the Anambra State governorship election holding Monday in Ihiala Local Government Area, attention has shifted to the council area, just as interests have heightened among

The governorship candidate of the All Progressives Grand Alliance (APGA) in Anambra State, Prof. Charles Soludo; his counterpart in the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Mr. Valentine Ozigbo; governorship candidate of

Amid fear and tension, caused by an endless bloodbath, which hindered campaigns of the political parties, the people of Anambra State will on Saturday vote to elect a new governor.

Ethiopia’s Tigray forces are joining with other armed and opposition groups in an alliance against Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed to seek a political transition after a year of devastating war,

The United States Special Envoy for the Horn of Africa, Jeffrey Feltman, arrived Ethiopia on Thursday for a two-day visit to secure a ceasefire as the American government scrambles to

Britain on Thursday became the first country in the world to approve a potentially game-changing COVID-19 antiviral pill jointly developed by U.S.-based Merck and Ridgeback Biotherapeutics, in a boost to

The British government says the “end of coal is in sight” after Poland, Vietnam and Chile and other countries pledged for the first time to phase out coal-based power generation

Facebook has removed a post from Ethiopia’s prime minister for violating its policies against inciting violence. On Sunday, Abiy Ahmed called on citizens take up arms to block the advance