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Niger President Mohamed Bazoum on Wednesday was being held by disgruntled members of the elite Presidential Guard, who in turn were given an “ultimatum” by the army, a source close to Bazoum said on Wednesday. The West African bloc ECOWAS condemned what it called an “attempted coup” and called on...

China’s Sichuan province is considered as a Panda Paradise. As the capital city of Sichuan province, Chengdu readies for the 31st FISU world University Games. CGTN Africa took to the streets of #Africa and asked people for a quick quiz on Pandas.

Chelsea boss, Mauricio Pochettino has revealed the positions Christopher Nkunku could play in his XI. The manager was reacting to claims that the Frenchman would predominantly be used as a striker. Chelsea beat Brighton 4-3 in the 2023 Summer Series on Saturday night despite conceding the first goal in Philadelphia....

A distraught Congolese soldier shot dead at least 13 civilians, most of them children, in a village in the northeast of the conflict-plagued country, military and local sources said Sunday. The naval serviceman couldn’t bear the fact that his child had been buried in his absence, the day before he...

Indian police have arrested four men accused of parading two women naked in front of a mob in a northeastern state where months of ethnic violence have left at least 120 dead. The suspects were identified from a video clip of the incident in early May that went viral on...

Head of the Wagner mercenary group, Yevgeny Prigozhin, has said his men will continue to fight in African countries, where they are already present. Ever since Prigozhin mounted a failed mutiny in Russia last month and was banished to Belarus, there have been questions over Wagner’s future. “There was no,...

A view of a shopping street in north China’s city of Tianjin, June 22, 2023. /CFP China’s gross domestic product grew by 5.5 percent year on year in the first half of 2023, indicating a “good momentum of recovery” in the national economy, according to the National Bureau of Statistics...

Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg has been photographed training with New Zealand/Nigerian mixed martial arts star Israel Adesanya in preparation for a proposed cage fight with Elon Musk. After both American tech billionaires called each other out, Mark Zuckerberg, whose firm owns Facebook and Instagram, recently released a social networking app...

A member of the House of Representatives representing Tangaza/Gudu Federal Constituency of Sokoto State, Sani Yakubu, has raised alarm, saying jihadists from Niger, Mali and Libya and the local bandits operating in Tangaza Local Government of the state have imposed a tax on farmers in the area. Yakubu, who disclosed...

Hospital doctors in England on Thursday staged the biggest walkout in the history of the UK’s state-funded National Health Service, prompting fears for patient safety. The unprecedented five-day stoppage over pay and staff retention is the latest in eight months of industrial action across the NHS, which is already reeling...