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A strong earthquake has struck central Mexico, killing at least 248 people and toppling dozens of buildings in the capital, Mexico City.President Enrique Peña Nieto said more than 20 children had died and 30 were missing after a school collapsed.The 7.1 magnitude quake also caused major damage in neighbouring states.The …

US President Donald Trump has told the UN General Assembly that America would destroy North Korea if forced to defend itself or its allies. In his debut speech, he mocked North Korea’s leader, Kim Jong-un, saying: “Rocket man is on a suicide mission.” North Korea has tested nuclear bombs and …

Catherine January Otto hunches over a notebook, drawing stick figures and a square house to represent her family a few years from now. She’s imagining what life might be like once engineers have completed an irrigation canal in Dirim, the village in northern Tanzania’s Manyara region where she grows maize, …

People in the county of Baringo in Kenya’s Rift Valley traditionally lived with the constant mooing of cows and bleating of goats. But over the past year, silence has reigned over much of this dry land dotted with cacti and shrubs. As climate change brings worsening drought, herders travel further …

The US State Department will from September 14, 2017 (Wednesday) stop issuing certain kinds of visas to selected citizens of Cambodia, Eritrea, Guinea and Sierra Leonem due to the affected nations refusal to take back US deportees. Reuters reports that the new policy sent out in cables by Secretary of …

The Speaker of Parliament, Professor Mike Oquaye, has underscored the need for donor partners to support Africa to consolidate economic and political development on the continent. He described the consolidation of the economic and political development as a second wind of change in Africa and acknowledged the role played by …

A fire at a school has killed at least 21 children in the Malaysian capital of Kuala Lumpur, officials said. The blaze, which broke out at a religious school in the early hours of Thursday, also left two adults dead. Fire department official Soiman Jahid told reporters when emergency responders …

The African Union Commission has commended the Government of Ghana for implementing the Free Senior High School policy, indicating that it is a sure way of ensuring the growth of the country and Africa as a whole.  Ambassador Thomas Kwesi Quartey, Deputy Chairperson, African Union Commission, who gave the commendation …

The U.S. Supreme Court on Tuesday allowed President Donald Trump to broadly implement a ban on refugees entering the country from around the world. The justices granted a request from the Trump administration to block a federal appeals court decision that, according to the Justice Department, would have allowed up …

Kenya’s President Uhuru Kenyatta has said that if his rival, Raila Odinga, is elected president in the re-run election on 17 October, his party, which has a parliamentary majority, will remove him from office. Mr Kenyatta, who was addressing a delegation of party supporters, said (in Swahili): “even if he …