Tanzanian President Samia Suluhu Hassan has praised Simba SC after the team made history by reaching the final of the CAF Confederation Cup. Simba secured their place in the final after a hard-fought 0-0 draw against Stellenbosch in Durban on Sunday. They advanced thanks to their 1-0 win from the first leg. Now, they will […]
The incessant rains have caused flooding in Durban and its neighboring areas. It has disrupted several core areas, with a lot of roads submerged and therefore closed. The South African Weather Service(SAWS) counselled citizens with an alert of Level 4 about a disruptive rainfall warning for the whole of KwaZulu-Natal. Rains since midnight have unleashed […]
Opposition groups in Guinea has said there’s a possible Elections malpractice in the just concluded presidential election. The group claim there might be a possible this term regime for Alpha Conde due election irregularities. In the interim, the principle challenger Cellou Dalein Diallo, who had guaranteed triumph Monday. excused it as fake. Festivities in Conakry […]
United States President Donald Trump has indicated the proposed removal of Sudan from United States terror list if the country pays approximately $400 million to victims of terrorism across the world Sudan has been recorded since 1993 when al-Qaeda pioneer Osama Bin Laden lived in the nation as a visitor of the administration. The remuneration […]
Gauteng Provincial Legislature (MPL) member Nkele Molapo has been sacked by the DA over sexual assault claims leveled by her to Tshwane mayor Solly Msimanga in Pretoria. The DA on Friday terminated the membership of Nkele Molapo, Gauteng Provincial Legislature (MPL) member who this week opened a sexual harassment case towards Gauteng DA intervening time […]
President of Angola, Joao Lourenço continues to probe immediate past president José Eduardo Dos Santos. In a detailed interview with the BBC, Lourenco estimated that the united states misplaced up to US$24 billion bucks underneath the former administration of president José Eduardo dos Santos. According to the president, over half of the figure US$13.5 billion […]
In an unprecedented union in the Comoros Islands, the opposition and all civil society movements in both the archipelago and abroad amongst the diaspora have come together to form the new “common front of the living forces against the dictatorship” to denounce a perceived constitutional coup d’état on the part of President Azali Assoumani — […]
Nigeria is sinking deeper into debt. Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari presented the 2021 budget to the National Assembly on Thursday. He announced that it would be funded by fresh borrowings worth 4.3 trillion nairas, which is a third of the total budget of almost 13 trillion nairas. That’s 33.2 billion American dollars. The president said […]
An elderly French aid worker and a top Malian politician landed in the capital Bamako to an emotional reunion with their loved ones after being released from captivity by presumed jihadists. Mali announced the release of Frenchwoman Sophie Petronin, 75, and Malian politician Soumaila Cisse on Thursday, alongside two Italian nationals. French President Emmanuel Macron […]
Tens of thousands of Muslims descended upon Senegal’s holy city this week for the annual Grand Magal pilgrimage, a tradition in West Africa that some fear could become a super-spreader event for COVID-19. The Magal honors the founder of the Mouride Brotherhood, Senegal’s most influential religious order. In previous years, as many as 3 million […]
Yawa Kouigan is the mayor of Atakpamé, Togo’s fifth largest city in population. She is the first mayor elected in the last 30 years and faces several daily challenges. “This pollution is the kind of problem that led us to think about development and how hard it was to manage natural resources,” she explained. “All […]
Protests During a Pandemic Around 400 to 500 demonstrators took to the streets of Algiers on Monday in defiance of a nationwide ban on protests to demand democratic change as they also called for the release of over 60 members of the Hirak anti-government movement that saw president Abdelaziz Bouteflika step down last year. The […]
The transitional government of Sudan and 13 rebel factions have today signed a final peace agreement in South Sudan capital, Juba. The agreement, which was brokered by South Sudan president Salva Kiir following continued unrest in Khartoum since the ouster of strongman Omar al-Bashir in April 2019, was witnessed by Mr Kiir, South Sudan Vice […]
The family of Paul Rusesabagina, the former hotelier portrayed as a hero in a film about Rwanda’s 1994 genocide, has called on the international community to appeal for his release from prison. Rusesabagina, a political dissident who lived in exile in Belgium and the United States, was charged with terrorism and other offences last month […]
French President Emmanuel Macron and Kenyan President Uhuru Kenyatta preside over a ceremony at the Elysee Palace for the signing of three infrastructure contracts in Kenya awarded to French groups. Upon his return from a visit to Lithuania and Latvia, Emmanuel Macron received his Kenyan counterpart at the end of the day, the two leaders […]
Residents of the Diepsloot township, Johanesburg, South Africa have no electricity so most of them are forced to install illegal lightning rods to be able to live with power. But the authorities have however now come to tear out these illegal electricity connections. Eskom technicians were in Diepsloot on Tuesday morning to remove illegal electricity […]
Over 5 months of lockdown in light of the Covid-19 pandemic and Esther has finally returned to work in Madagascar’s capital. The mother of two makes a living selling steel wool which yields a daily 23 Euro cents — barely enough to feed her family. And to make matters worse, she will most likely have […]
For many Mozambicans, the Hulene dump, in Maputo, is a rescue resource to which they desperately resort in order to survive and support their families. It is the largest dump in the country and has become the basis for a plastic collection business dominated mainly by young people and women. Those who come here have […]
African nations came out swinging during the United Nations General Assembly,// calling for dramatic fiscal measures, in order to help economies survive the impact of the coronavirus pandemic. African countries estimate they need an annually support of $100 billion for the next three years, pointing out it is only a fraction of the trillions of […]
Cries of joy at Burkina’s Patriotic Movement for Salvation’s (Mouvement Patriotique pour le Salut, MPS) convetion. Former president and Transitional Prime Minister Isaac Zida has been designated as the party’s candidate. Zida, who fled to Canada in 2016, was supposed to arrive in capital city Ouagadougou. But as he faced an arrest warrant for “desertion […]