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A growing number of landlords are asking tenants for sex in exchange for housing as coronavirus lockdowns and job cuts have left many struggling to pay their rent, housing experts said. A survey by the National Fair Housing Alliance (NFHA)...

SAN FRANCISCO, May 21, (THEWILL) - United Nations Secretary General, Antonio Guterres has called for a $200bn support for Africa from the international community for the continent to rise from the economic ruins caused by the COVID-19 pandemic. In the...

SAN FRANCISCO, May 21, (THEWILL) - South Sudan’s first vice president, the former rebel leader Riek Machar, has tested positive for the novel coronavirus. Machar’s wife, Defence Minister Angelina Teny, and “a number of his office staff and bodyguards” have...

SAN FRANCISCO, May 19, (THEWILL) - Lesotho’s embattled Prime Minister Thomas Thabane announced his resignation on Monday, ending months of political uncertainty gripping the kingdom since he was accused of participating in his ex-wife’s murder. Thabane’s political rivals have piled...

BEVERLY HILLS, May 16, (THEWILL) - French police has arrested Félicien Kabuga, one of the most wanted suspects in the Rwandan genocide. The French ministry of justice announced that the 84-year-old was picked up on Saturday near Paris where he...

SAN FRANCISCO, May 14, (THEWILL) - The re-emergence of new coronavirus cases in Wuhan, the birthplace of the now deadly pandemic, is sparking fears of a fresh wave of infections in China with authorities directing the testing of all 11...

SAN FRANCISCO, May 14, (THEWILL) - The Burundi foreign ministry, in a letter to WHO Africa headquarters and seen by AFP on Wednesday, said the UN agency’s representative in Burundi and his three colleagues “are declared persona non grata and...

BEVERLY HILLS, May 11, (THEWILL) - Four roadside bombs were detonated in less than 90 minutes Monday in a northern district of Afghanistan’s capital, wounding four civilians including a child, police said. Militants have carried out several roadside bombings and...

SAN FRANCISCO, May 10, (THEWILL) – The Ethiopian government has claimed responsibility for shooting down a privately-owned Kenyan plane in Somalia earlier this week. The plane, which had been carrying humanitarian and medical supplies to help the country fight the...

SAN FRANCISCO, May 06, (THEWILL) - The United Nations Secretary General, Antonio Guterres, on Wednesday said the world’s 1 billion people with disabilities are among the hardest hit by the coronavirus pandemic in terms of fatalities. “The share of Covid-19-related...