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Addis Ababa, April 5, 2021 (FBC) -India has today recorded its highest number yet of coronavirus infections in a single day, with 103,558 confirmed cases. Most are in the western state of…

Addis Ababa, April 3, 2021 (FBC) -Italy has entered a strict three-day lockdown to try to prevent a surge in Covid-19 cases over Easter. All regions are now in the "red zone" - the…

Addis Ababa, April 1, 2021 (FBC) -Tanzania’s President Samia Suluhu Hassan has reshuffled her cabinet more than a week after she was sworn in following the death of President John Magufuli.…

Addis Ababa, March 30, 2021 (FBC) - Prime Minister Boris Johnson has joined more than 20 world leaders in calling for a new global settlement to help the world prepare for future pandemics.…

Addis Ababa, March 29, 2021 (FBC) - A huge container ship that has been stuck across the Suez Canal for almost a week has been freed from the shoreline, officials say. The course of the…

Addis Ababa, March 28, 2021 (FBC) -President Vladimir Putin has said he expects Russia to reach herd immunity by the end of the summer. Speaking on television, the president said he was…

Addis Ababa, March 26, 2021 (FBC) - Delayed rains in the Horn of Africa have helped keeping the locust population down, the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) of the United Nations said…

Addis Ababa, March 25, 2021 (FBC) -North Korea has fired two ballistic missiles into the Sea of Japan, says the US and Japan - the first such test since Joe Biden became US president.…

Addis Ababa, March 24, 2021 (FBC) - The rebel administration in eastern Libya has officially handed power to the country's new interim government, based in Tripoli. A handover ceremony…

Addis Ababa, March 22, 2021 (FBC) -Inherent gender inequality and unequal internet connectivity are some of the reasons women and girls in Africa remain under-represented in the fields of…