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Tunisia will extend its nightly curfew until mid-January, health authorities have said. The decision was announced on Tuesday night following the recommendations of the country's Covid-19 scientific committee. More than 120,000 positive…

BioNTech has "scientific confidence" that its coronavirus vaccine would also work on the variant detected in the UK, company CEO Ugur Sahin said Tuesday. The proteins on the mutated form of the virus were 99% the same as the prevailing…

Rebels in the Central African Republic on Tuesday seized the key city of Bambari, the local mayor, said - in a sharp escalation of violence ahead of the presidential and parliamentary election on December 27. Government and UN sources…

Kenyan MPs have voted to end tax cuts put in place in early April to help citizens to deal with the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic. President Uhuru Kenyatta announced the relief just weeks after the country recorded its first coronavirus…

Is there such a thing as too many women in leadership positions? Oui, according to France’s Ministry of Public Service, which recently served Paris Mayor Anne Hidalgo with a fine of 90,000 euros (about $109,470) for appointing too many…

Twitter's policy that deals with the infringement of copyright is increasingly being used to maliciously target accounts run by Tanzanian human rights activists in order to silence them, internet rights campaigners allege. Every…

The Acting Inspector General of Police, James Oppong-Boanuh, has directed the immediate interdiction of two police officers. Two officers, No.48991 Lance Corporal Emmanuel Yao Abusah and No. 52698 Lance Corporal Sulemana Yussif, both of…

The homicide rate for children is showing some disturbing trends in South Africa Around 1,000 children are murdered each year in South Africa, according to official figures. Yet many more killed children don't make the official…

President-elect Joe Biden has received his first dose of the Pfizer Covid-19 vaccine, saying he was getting the jab to show Americans it is "safe to take". Mr Biden joins a growing number of political leaders getting the jab,…

It was 1974. Roaches crawled around the basement of a government-subsidized apartment building in Flushing, Queens, where six young men — members of a local gang called the Family — were “probably” high on weed. Six guns were laid out. Each…