Africa
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296Tanzanian protest fails amid heavy police presence
Anti-government protests organised through social media against new cyber laws have flopped in Tanzania after authorities deployed heavy police presence in the streets and...
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304U.N. rights chief visits protest-hit Ethiopian region, meets dissidents
The U.N. human rights chief said he was allowed to visit a region in Ethiopia that has been roiled by protests and...
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776“South Africa is still under apartheid”- Video shows system’s legacy in Cape Town
For South Africans, especially those from a privileged background, it’s very easy to become “numb” for large periods to the poverty in...
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461South African unions protest over minimum wage in test for Ramaphosa
Several thousand South African union members marched in Johannesburg on Wednesday to protest a proposed national minimum wage they called inadequate, presenting...
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886Zuma gets love child from 24-year-old lady
South Africa’s former President Jacob Zuma is hugging the headlines again with reports that he has fathered a new baby from a...
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163DRC sacks more than 250 ‘fake’ or corrupt judges
The Democratic Republic of Congo on Monday sacked more than 250 magistrates who did not have a law degree or were accused...
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162Angola says ex-president’s son planned to steal $1.5bn
The son of Angola’s former president, Jose Eduardo dos Santos, planned to siphon off $1.5bn when he ran the oil-rich country’s sovereign wealth...
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174Fighters disguised as peacekeepers attack UN base in Mali
At least one UN peacekeeper has been killed and a dozen others wounded in a twin suicide attack on a base in...
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686Narrative on Winnie Madikizela-Mandela is mischievous-Minister Mokonyane
Minister Mokonyane has noted reports from a local broadcaster and some international news agencies which continue to use an apartheid era narrative...
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143Kenyan lawmakers refuse to sit on plastic chairs
Kenyan politicians have been holding standing meetings to protest against delays in the renovation of their assembly building, The Standard news site reports....
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185Sierra Leone court stops preparations for presidential run-off
Sierra Leone’s High Court on Saturday ordered the electoral commission to halt preparations for a March 27 presidential run-off following a legal...
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278Italy seizes rescue ship that stopped migrants’ return to Libya
Italian court has seized a charity ship on charges that its crew helped illegal immigration by rescuing more than 200 migrants from...
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160Mnangagwa says only $591m out of $1.42bn of Zimbabwean funds stashed abroad returned
President Emmerson Mnangagwa of Zimbabwe said on Monday that only 591 million dollars of the 1.42 billion dollars estimated to be stashed...
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166Somalia bans Dubai ports operator
MPs in Somalia have voted to declare a contract with the United Arab Emirates null and void – endangering plans to develop a port in the...
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309106 Ghanaian migrants return from Libya
One hundred and six Ghanaian migrants who were detained in Libya on illegal migration charges on Tuesday returned home. This follows the...
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192South African Brothel Where Nigerians Were Arrested To Be Demolished
According to reports, the brothel where 26 women and girls were rescued by security operatives on 16 December 2016 in South Africa,...
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234Amnesty accuses Myanmar’s military of “land grab’ in Rakhine State
Amnesty International on Monday accused the Myanmar military of “land grabbing” for construction of its bases in Rakhine State after hundreds of...
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391Rwanda Seventh-Day Adventist churchgoers killed by lightning
A lightning strike killed at least 16 people and injured dozens more at a Seventh-Day Adventist church in Rwanda on Saturday, an...
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258Why Ghanaians are bounced visas – US Ambassador gives details
Failure on the part of over 6000 Ghanaians to make good on their word and return home after the expiration of their...
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322NEC releases 50% of Sierra Leone’s Presidential election result
The National Electoral Commission of Sierra Leone on Saturday released part of the result of the presidential election held in the country...
