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Former United States Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has edited her Twitter bio following her interview with Nigerian writer Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie at a literary event in New York. During the interview at the PEN World Voices festival last month, Adichie said she was upset with Clinton’s bio…

Dr Ronny Jackson, the embattled Veterans Administration Secretary nominee and current Physician to the President is nicknamed “Candy Man” by the White House for casually dishing out prescription drugs. Senator Jon Tester (D-Montana) told CCN’s Anderson Cooper that about 20 military sources have…

World's first ever complete transplant of a penis and scrotum has successfully been carried out on an American soldier. The delicate procedure was performed by a team of surgeons at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, Maryland, after the military man  was wounded by a bomb in Afghanistan.…

King Mswati III of Swaziland has announced the change of the country's name to eSwatini. Mswati, one of the world’s few absolute monarchs, announced the move on Thursday when he presided over the ceremony to mark the country's 50 years of independence. eSwatini is a Swazi language name which means…

Former US First Lady Barbara Bush has passed on. Barbara, wife of 41st President George H.W. Bush and mother to George W. Bush, the 43rd US President, passed away on Tuesday at her home in Houston, Texas at the age of 92. "A former first lady of the United States of America and relentless proponent…

A US senator has come under criticism for his ‘Swahili’ reference at a Tuesday Senate hearing with Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg. Senator John Kennedy, a Republican from Louisiana, was questioning Zuckerberg on Facebook’s user agreement, which he said is too complicated and meant to legally protect…

Park Geun-hye, the former South Korean President who is alleged to have purchased packs of Viagra during her State visit to Kenya in 2016 was on Friday handed a 24-year prison term after being convicted for corruption. During her trip to Kenya in 2016, Park is said to have bought 360 erectile…

Senteni Masango, the eighth wife of King Mswati III of Swaziland committed suicide on Friday following what is reported to be a drug overdose. The queen's lifeless body was found  in the early hours of Friday morning, media outlets in the South African nation reported.  Mpumalanga, a…

Ugandan citizens will now be taxed to use social media platforms such as WhatsApp, Facebook, Twitter and Skype in President Yoweri Museveni's latest bid to stop what he termed as lugambo (gossip). Internet users, human rights defenders and opposition leaders have opposed the new tax proposals…

Winnie Madikizela-Mandela, the ex-wife of the late South Africa iconic President Nelson Mandela has passed away, aged 81. The anti-apartheid stalwart's personal assistant, Zodwa Zwane confirmed her demise in a statement on Monday. Her family said that she died peacefully after a "long illness for…