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A Franco-Canadian was sentenced Thursday to nearly 22 years in prison in the United States for having sent a poisoned letter to former president, Donald Trump at the White House in 2020, the American justice announced . Pascale Ferrier, 56, pleaded guilty in January in federal court in Washington to …

A collision between two trams in a large avenue in the center of Lisbon caused 13 minor injuries on Thursday, including several tourists and three children, according to the relief quoted by local media. Among the injured passengers, two French, two Czechs, an American, an Italian and a Spaniard describe …

A Kenyan man who said he was protesting against the high cost of living set himself on fire in the coastal city of Mombasa on Thursday afternoon, local media reported. He had climbed on top of a statue in the middle of a busy roundabout before setting himself alight.. In …

Seven political parties in South Africa has signed a pact in a bid to unseat the governing African National Congress (ANC) in the 2024 election, the BBC reported. The Multi-Party Charter for South Africa said if they came to power, they would work together and allocate ministerial positions and parliamentary …

West African military chiefs have said they are prepared to use force to restore democracy in Niger following last month’s coup if diplomacy fails. The generals from the Ecowas group of nations are meeting in Ghana to co-ordinate possible military intervention. The Ecowas peace and security commissioner, Abdel-Fatau Musah, said …

A 55-year-old polygamous man who got up one day and angrily divorced all his three wives has given reasons for the action and vowed never to marry again. Identified only as Mutiacya, the elderly man who lives in Uganda recounted in an interview with Afrimax English that he was once …

Dominican authorities on Wednesday declared a one-day national mourning after the powerful explosion that left 27 dead and 59 injured on Monday, according to the latest official report. The explosion occurred Monday at 3:10 p.m. local time, in San Cristobal, less than 30 km from the capital Santo Domingo. The …

A federal appeals court in the United States ruled on Wednesday in favor of reinstating restrictions on access to the abortion pill, but this decision will have no practical effect until the Supreme Court rules. This decision, if confirmed, would result in particular in a return to a limit of …

An American national convicted of torturing and killing his Egyptian father was executed on Wednesday, the official Saudi news agency SPA reported. “Bishoy Sharif Naji Naseef, of American nationality, was executed in the Riyadh region,” the agency added, quoting a press release from the interior ministry of the Saudi kingdom, …

Ecowas Chiefs of Staff are meeting in the Ghanaian capital, Accra, to discuss the deployment of a standby force for possible military intervention to restore democracy in Niger. At least 11 of the bloc’s 15-member states back a military deployment to reinstate the democratically elected president, Mohamed Bazoum, after diplomatic …