Category: Africa

A listed building in the centre of Egypt’s capital partially collapsed injuring five people Saturday, Authorities who rushed to the building on Kasr al-Nile street, near the iconic Tahrir Square, tended to 14 people including passersby and transported five to hospitals. An investigation has been launched to assess the cause of the sudden collapse of […]

Reactions are pouring in Namibia over the government’s rejection of a 10 million euros genocide reparations offer from Germany. Namibia’s President Hage Geingob on Tuesday said reparations offered by Germany for mass killings in its then colony were “not acceptable” and needed to be “revised”. There are mixed reactions on the streets of Windhoek the […]

Produce Camp 2020 is a popular chinese reality. But there’s a stunning story of a participant this year. That of Chinese African singer Zhong Feifei. Zhong who is Chinese-Congolese is helping to bring diversity to the Chinese entertainment industry. She competed on the show with 101 contestants vying for a stardom in a seven-member girl […]

A fresh streak of oil spilled Friday from a bulk carrier stranded on a reef in pristine waters off Mauritius which is already reeling from the ecological disaster, as demands mounted for answers as to why the vessel had come so close to shore. While the boat’s reservoirs were successfully emptied on Wednesday, preventing further […]

Doctors in a rural Sierra Leone hospital may be accustomed to treating severely ill infants, but they recently admitted one of the worst cases they had ever seen. An 18-month-old with pallid skin and thinning hair arrived on the wards in the eastern town of Hangha in July suffering from an alarming combination of pneumonia, […]

Jailtime for the Former President’s Son Billionaire behind bars, Jose Filomeno dos Santos, son of the former president who ruled Angola for 38 years, was sentenced to five years in prison by the nation’s Supreme Court in Luanda on Friday for a multi-billion dollar embezzlement scheme attempting to transfer to $1.5 billion into a private […]

A senior leader of Egypt’s Muslim Brotherhood, Essam el-Erian has died. El Erian died at a prison hospital in Cairo on Thursday after suffering a heart attack. The 66 year old had served as deputy leader of the Brotherhood’s Freedom and Justice Party, and was swept up in a crackdown on the movement’s leadership after […]

Mali’s opposition has rejected an offer to meet with President Ibrahim Boubacar Keita in order to defuse a months-long political crisis. Nigeria’s former-president Goodluck Jonathan, who is chief international mediator in the crisis, proposed the meeting before the scheduled end of his latest trip to the Sahel state on Thursday. He had arrived Bamako on […]

Group Tests with Individual Results Wilfred Ndifon, a Rwanda researcher has created an innovative pool testing method that enables multiple people to have their samples tested together for the coronavirus without the need for single tests to accurately determine individual results that come up positive. Leon Mutesa, Professor of human genetics and member of Rwanda […]

Third Time is Not the Charm President Alassane Ouattara will run for a third term in the October elections in Cote d’Ivoire, and some fifty-odd Ivorians are indignant as they took to the streets of Abidjan — the capital city, where they blocked roads in protest of the recent decision. Around four people have already […]

An Economic Threat Mocimboa da Praia port, attacked and taken over by Jihadists Wednesday, a huge blow to the Cabo Delgado province in Northern Mozambique – which houses the continent’s biggest single multi-billion-dollar investment project in a liquified natural gas facility. Terrorist activity that could hamper the development of the gas industry. Jasmine Opperman, an […]

Park Ranger Pioneers Defying tradition and breaking barriers aptly describe the first all-female ranger unit — affectionately known as Team Lioness, patrolling Kenya’s vast Amboseli National Park. Purity Amselet, 24, a member of Team Lioness, shares her views, “When they see us doing this job, they don’t believe we can make it. They thought that […]

Almost all the fuel oil from the Japanese-owned ship that caused a huge oil spill, off the coast of Mauritius has been pumped out, Mauritius Prime Minister Pravind Jugnauth says the operation had been a race against time. This came amid fears that the MV Wakashio would break up. The ship, believed to have been […]

Nearly 2,000 people have been evicted from a housing development in Johannesburg. According to local media, the occupants of the housing development were evicted by the so called Red Ants on Wednesday The Red Ants are a private security company in South Africa specialising in clearing “illegal invaders” from properties. They had not carried out […]

He is dead but still alive in the hearts of many fans. It is now one year since the motorbike accident that claimed the life of Ivorian star singer DJ Arafat. Thousands of his fans nicknamed “Les Chinois” are now commemorating the first anniversary of the death of their idol. The “coupé-décalé” a creation of […]

Football matches have resumed behind closed doors in South Africa after a 152-day stoppage due to the coronavirus pandemic. Football lovers like Brian Khuzwayo in his Midrand lounge, Gauteng, now follow the games from the comfort of their homes. “It kind of took away the look and feel of the League. Because, you know, you […]

First in the World Russia has registered the world’s first COVID-19 vaccine claiming that it has been proven to offer lasting immunity from the coronavirus for up to two years. Russia registered the first COVID-19 vaccine on Tuesday and is now the first nation in the world to lay claim to such a feat which […]

Islamic Terrorism Mocimboa da Praia, a major port situated in the Northern oil-rich region of Mozambique, was taken over on Wednesday by Islamist extremists i.e. a group of jihadists. According to local media and military sources, this comes after a series of attacks that occurred recently in the area The digital daily, Moz24Horas, reported that […]

Not acceptable was the response of Namibian President Hage Geingob in rejection of the German government’s proposal during negotiations that began in 2015 to atone for the gravity of the genocide committed against the Herero and Nama people of today’s Namibia between 1904 and 1908 during German colonial rule. Torture and Genocide Just under an […]

A Region Under Water Soaking wet with no dry land in sight, Bor South and Twic East counties in Jonglei, Eastern South Sudan are inundated by heavy and incessant rains with the water level rising to 1.5 meters. Many homes have been destroyed, some have even lost their lives and around 200,000 people have already […]