Shinzo Abe, Japan’s longest-serving prime minister, was shot on Friday while delivering a speech ahead of a parliamentary election, with public broadcaster NHK saying a man armed with an apparently homemade gun opened fire at him from behind.

Leaders of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) have adopted the recommendations of its mediator for Mali and Nigeria’s former President, Dr Goodluck Jonathan, concerning the lifting of economic sanctions on the country.

The European Union is not going to let Russia use a G20 meeting of top diplomats in Bali for political propaganda, EU foreign affairs spokesperson Nabila Massrali says.

The Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) has appointed former Beninese President, Thomas Yayi Boni as its new mediator for the transition in Guinea.

Mr. Oliver Chinganya, the Director African Centre for Statistics (ACS), Economic Commission for Africa (ECA) has expressed concern over poor data availability in Africa.

Germany is to ease the rules on employing foreign workers to deal with a ground staff crisis at its airports.

UN Secretary-General, Antonio Guterres, has welcomed the decisions on Mali reached by the authority of Heads of State and Government of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) at its Ordinary Summit held on Sunday in Accra, Ghana.

British Prime Minister Boris Johnson condemned Vladimir Putin’s “cruelty and barbarism” after a missile strike on a shopping centre in Ukraine left scores feared dead.