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American Rapper Drake has suffered a significant loss of $355,000 following Jake Paul's win over boxing icon Mike Tyson. READ ALSO: Drake Surprises a fan With a Wheelchair Accessible Van The highly anticipated boxing match took place…

Over 680,000 Sudanese refugees have found safety in Chad, forced to flee the war raging back home. In the last month alone, 60,000 new refugees arrived; the UN High Commissioner for Refugees said this week. The vast majority of the…

The Republic of Benin has pledged to deploy 2,000 troops to Haiti as part of a multinational peacekeeping forceto help the Caribbean nation's police fight armed gangs. Linda Thomas-Greenfield, the US Ambassador to the United Nations on…

South Africa's Minerals Council says on Monday that the restructuring of the country's platinum group metals (PGM) industry could result in between 4,000 and 7,000 job cuts. South African PGM miners are increasingly discussing the need…

The eastern Libyan city of Derna on Wednesday counted its dead in the thousands, and feared a very heavy toll, after two dams broke under the pressure of torrential rains, releasing powerful floodwaters that swept away everything in their…

More than 300,000 refugees have fled Sudan's conflict seeking safety and refuge in Chad, joining the 580,000 already there. “Chad has been generously welcoming in Sudanese refugees, but Chad itself is a low-income, crisis-affected…

The Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) says the old N200, N500 and N1,000 banknotes remain legal tender till December 31, 2023. The CBN’s Acting Director of Corporate Communications, Isa AbdulMumin disclosed this in a statement on Monday…

The European Union has mobilised 200,000 euros to help the Ugandan Red Cross in the face of a fresh Ebola outbreak which has already left more than 40 people dead in the country, the European Commission announced in a statement. The EU…

An ongoing audit of Kenya’s voters' roll has found the names of about 250 000 deceased on the register, Kenya's electoral agency has confirmed. In addition, about half a million more voters were found to have duplicate records and more…

Uganda is set to destroy 400,000 doses of Covid 19 vaccines which were meant to be utilized in a mass vaccination exercise in Acholi sub-region. The government had secured over 500,000 doses of Moderna vaccines to be used in November…