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May 04, (THEWILL) -Oil prices rose on Wednesday, ahead of the periodic meeting of the Organisation of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) and its allies. Brent crude futures, the global oil benchmark, climbed 3.35 percent to $108.25 a barrel at 10.20...

May 03, (THEWILL) - Heavily armed Al-Shabaab jihadists stormed an African Union (AU) base in Somalia on Tuesday, triggering a fierce firefight that left an unknown number of casualties, a local military commander and witnesses have said. AU forces dispatched...

May 01, (THEWILL) - Police in central China announced the detention of nine people on Sunday, over a collapsed building, as increasingly desperate rescuers comb the debris for any survivors. The building, in Changsha city, housed a hotel, apartments and...

April 29, (THEWILL) - The United States has confirmed the first known human case of H5 bird flu in a person in the western state of Colorado. The U.S. Centre for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) said in a statement...

April 27, (THEWILL) - The Central African Republic (CAR), has joined El Salvador, becoming the second country in the world to adopt bitcoin as legal tender. The Country’s President, Faustin Archange Touadera, in a statement issued on Wednesday by his...

April 27, (THEWILL) - China has confirmed the first known human case of the H3N8 strain of avian flu, but health authorities say there is a low risk of widespread transmission among people. H3N8 is known to have been circulating...

April 22, (THEWILL) - France has issued an international arrest warrant for Carlos Ghosn, the disgraced auto tycoon, who jumped bail in Japan and fled to Lebanon in a sensational getaway. The allegations against Ghosn, 68, include misuse of company assets,...

April 20, (THEWILL) – Côte d’Ivoire President, Alassane Ouattara, has appointed the governor of the Central Bank of West African States (BCEAO), Tiémoko Meyliet Koné,  as his Vice President. The 80-year-old leader made the announcement on Tuesday during an address...

April 16, (THEWILL) – Russia has declared UK Prime Minister, Boris Johnson and other senior ministers, 'persona non grata', over the UK’s “hostile” stance on the war in Ukraine. British Foreign Secretary, Liz Truss, Defence Secretary, Ben Wallace and 10...

April 13, (THEWILL) – Ivorian Prime Minister, Patrick Achi, has tabled his resignation and that of his government, President Alassane Ouattara disclosed at a cabinet meeting on Wednesday. Speaking at the opening of outgoing Prime Minister Patrick Achi's last cabinet meeting,...