Finance Minister Romuald Wadagni has overseen a decade of growth in the West African nation despite jihadist attacks and extreme poverty.
Manila’s street food stalls forced to raise prices and serve colder meals as they grapple with soaring fuel costs.
videocam Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s Bharatiya Janata Party has promoted dietary restrictions as part of its Hindu nationalist agenda.
videocam Kyiv says it will reciprocate the Kremlin-ordered truce from Saturday afternoon until the end of Sunday.
videocam Health authorities launched an emergency vaccine campaign on Sunday, with UN agencies aiming to protect more than 1.2 million children.
Thailand is gearing up for its biggest annual holiday, Songkran, as soaring fuel prices drive up costs for Thais travelling for the celebrations.
videocam The video purportedly shows Israeli soldiers torturing and pushing a ‘Palestinian kid’ off a roof.
The Kremlin says its forces will stop fighting ‘in all directions’ for 32 hours, and Zelensky says Kyiv is willing to reciprocate.
Residents of Tehran face Pakistan-hosted talks with scepticism and anger, caught between a repressive regime and Trump’s threats.
videocam Bowie’s childhood home in Bromley, London, will be restored to how it was when he was 16, including the bedroom in which he wrote early songs.
Netanyahu, who has repeatedly denied any wrongdoing, is the first sitting Israeli prime minister to stand trial for corruption.
John Healey said warships and military aircraft forced Russia to halt activity in UK waters near vital undersea cables and pipelines.
According to airline bosses, it will still take months for jet fuel supplies and prices to normalise.
videocam Her coach called winning bronze at Asian Elite Championships this week a ‘breakthrough’ after she stepped up to a new weight class.
The island, known locally as Pagasa, is home to about 400 Filipinos, whom China accuses of living there illegally.
The biggest East Asia-Pacific tournament ever will see nine teams battling to reach the showpiece event in Australia and New Zealand.
The wolf, named Neukgu, tunnelled its way to freedom from a Daejeon zoo, triggering a school closure and search involving over 300 people.
Christopher Okello Onyum is thought to have posed as a parent to gain access to a kindergarten, where he stabbed his young victims.
The Thai-flagged ship was struck on March 11 while travelling through the Gulf waterway.
The pair had been under house arrest at the French embassy in Tehran ever since being freed from more than three years in prison in November.
videocam Canadian astronaut Jenni Gibbons discusses how she supported Artemis II as it broke the distance record for space travel.
Northern Ireland star out to become only fourth player to go back to back, while world No 1 is bidding to hold three majors at once.
The 41-year-old suffered multiple fractures in her left leg and underwent a procedure to prevent her leg from being amputated.
Right-wing candidate Keiko Fujimori holds first place in the polls one week before Peru’s presidential election.
Earth-bound Nasa astronauts share striking photo and conduct the first moonship-to-spaceship radio link-up ever.
The six-month-old male ostrich was later returned safe to its enclosure at the animal-themed cafe.
videocam Two people are in critical condition, while 11 others sustained less serious injuries.
The Communist Party chief is the first person to secure the top two jobs through the party’s normal leadership selection processes.
videocam Roberts-Smith reportedly kicked an unarmed Afghan civilian off a cliff and drank out of a prosthetic leg of a man who was gunned down.
Younger Castros emerge as key figures on the communist-run island - including a bar-owning influencer.