Africa's health watchdog has warned that the smallpox epidemic is still not under control, andappealed for resources to prevent a pandemic ‘more serious’ than COVID-19.‘The situation is not yet under control, but the general trend…
Senegal registers first case of coronavirus
Senegal has become the second country in sub-Saharan Africa to record a coronavirus case, multiple news outlets including the privately-owned Dakaractu website have reported. The reports said the victim in question was a French national…
Guinea-Bissau army deploys at state institutions as crisis…
Guinea-Bissau’s military deployed at key state installations in the capital on Saturday, as a political crisis continues to bite in the small West African country. Two men, Umaro Sissoco Embalo and Cipriano Cassama claim the…
Guinea’s Alpha Conde postpones Sunday’s referendum, legislative elections
Guinea’s president Alpha Condé on Friday announced a ‘slight postponement’ of Sunday’s scheduled referendum on a new constitution and legislative elections, following months of deadly protests against what the opposition sees as a manoeuvre to…
Two feared dead as mine shaft collapses
Two artisanal miners are feared dead after a mine shaft they were working in collapsed on Tuesday morning in Shamva. The accident occurred at Lumbo18 Zuze Syndicate Mine. National Police Spokesperson Assistant Commissioner Paul Nyathi…
Malawi ruling party forms coalition ahead of May…
Malawian president Peter Mutharika’s ruling Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) on Tuesday entered into an alliance with United Democratic Front (UDF). The UDF governed Malawi between 1994 and 2004, and has 10 parliamentary seats. The DPP…
Togo votes in a presidential election without great…
Polling stations opened on Saturday morning in Togo where voters will choose their president in a ballot without much suspense as incumbent Faure Gnassingbé is expected to win a fourth term in office in the…
DSS probes Bayelsa new deputy governor’s fake NYSC…
Senator Lawrence Ewhrudjakpo: was his NYSC certificate fake? Was Bayelsa deputy-governor, Lawrence Ewhrudjakpo using a forged discharge certificate of the National Youth Service Corps? An Abuja Area Court has ordered the Department of State Services…
I am not a dictator’: Togo’s president says…
Togo’s president Faure Gnassingbe is confident of securing victory in Saturday’s elections, telling Knowafrika and Le Monde on Thursday that he is not a dictator. Gnassingbe is aiming to extend his family’s decades-long domination over…
Bayelsa: Supreme Court goofed, I didn’t forge any…
All Progressives Congress (APC) deputy governorship candidate in the Bayelsa State governorship election in Bayelsa State, Senator Biobarakuma Degi-Eremienyo has debunked the premise which the Supreme Court based its stunning verdict of 13 February, nullifying…
President Buhari will not resign – Lai Mohammed
Nigerians expecting President Muhammadu Buhari to resign due to rising insecurity in the nation are joking, as the nation’s Minister of Information and Culture, Lai Mohammed said emphatically on Thursday that the president will not…
Rwanda’s health minister fired for lying about testing…
Rwanda’s president Paul Kagame on Sunday revealed how the country’s health minister had been fired over mishandling of coronavirus testing kits. In a stinging rebuke on his ministers, Kagame accused several of them including the…
Egypt Accelerates Construction of Border Wall with Gaza
Egyptian authorities have sped up efforts to construct a wall on the border with the Gaza Strip, in an attempt to end the infiltration of extremists to and from Sinai. Palestinian sources in Gaza said…
Seven dead in Dangote truck accident on Lagos-Abeokuta…
A road accident involving a truck and two passenger vehicles on Saturday claimed the lives of seven persons and seriously injured others along the Lagos – Abeokuta Expressway. The crash happened near the old toll…
First Coronavirus Case Recorded In Africa
A first case of the novel coronavirus has been recorded in Egypt which is also the first to be recorded in the whole of the African continent. Coronavirus was first discovered in December 2019 in…
New round of anti-Conde protests as Guinea’s ‘divisive’…
Closed shops and empty roads were witnessed across much of the Guinean capital Conakry on Wednesday amid an opposition call for resistance against an upcoming constitutional referendum. The town was deserted after a call by…
New NIRA board sworn in
The recently approved National Identification and Registration Authority (NIRA) board members have been sworn in. Seven of the nine board members took the oath of office and secrecy at an event presided over by the…
Fire guts Ilesa sawmill in Osun
A late-night fire outbreak on Wednesday razed a sawmill at the Oke-Omiru area of Ilesa in Osun state. However, there are no casualties in the incident which lasted almost two hours. According to findings, the…
Ekiti approves N248 million for 2020 WAEC fees…
The Ekiti State Government has on Wednesday approved a whooping sum of N248,522,900 for the payment of the May/June 2020 West African Examination Council (WAEC) fees of the SS3 Students in public secondary schools in…
