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Three people were killed in Zimbabwe’s capital Harare after troops opened fire on rioting opposition supporters, police say. The government says the army was deployed in central Harare to help police restore order. The opposition MDC Alliance condemned the crackdown, saying

The law imposing an annual tax on vehicles with high capacity engines starts today, August 1, 2018. This is according to the Ghana Revenue Authority following parliament’s approval of the tax proposed by the Finance Minister when he delivered the mid-year

US President Donald Trump has launched a stinging attack on Republican mega-donors Charles and David Koch, labelling them a “total joke”. His tweets come after a spokesman for the brothers’ network accused the White House of stoking divisiveness. Mr Trump said

Zimbabwe’s opposition leader Nelson Chamisa has said he was “winning resoundingly” but the Zimbabwe Electoral Commission said official results were yet to be announced. Chamisa, the leader of the Movement for Democratic Change (MDC), said on Tuesday that his party had the

The Tamale High Court in the Northern region has convicted two students to death for killing a pastor in a robbery attack 10 months ago. The sentence is expected to suffer increased backlash from international human rights group, Amnesty International. The

More than 1,500 people have died so far in 2018 trying to reach Europe by crossing the Mediterranean, the UN International Organisation for Migration (IOM) has said, adding that this is the fifth consecutive year that the grim benchmark has been

Long queues have formed at polling stations in Zimbabwe in the first since general election since long-serving ruler Robert Mugabe was ousted. Foreign observers have hailed the election as an opportunity for Zimbabwe to break with its repressive past. The presidential

An Egyptian court has sentenced 75 people to death for their role in the violence that erupted after President Mohammed Morsi’s removal in 2013. The group, including leaders of the banned Muslim Brotherhood, are part of a mass trial of more