Airports in Cairo, Nairobi, Marrakech felt louder this year. Rolling suitcases, hot air near the taxi lanes, the coffee smell. Africa Leads Global Tourism Boom — 10% Surge in International Arrivals in 2025 set the tone. Numbers moved, stories followed. That’s how it reads on the ground. Global Tourism in 2025: How Africa Pulled Ahead […]
How to Ask Questions in English made news again across classrooms in Africa, as teachers push for clear speaking and everyday confidence. The theme sounds simple. Still, “how to ask questions in English” keeps shaping real lessons in real rooms, with chalk dust and ceiling fans. That’s how we see it anyway. Why Learning to […]
Cameroon’s political capital is currently hosting the 7 th session of the Cameroon-Nigeria trans-border security committee at the Yaounde Conference Centre, scheduled to end Friday July 5, 2019. The three-day session features amongst others plenary talks, deliberations, workshops, governors’ forum and the adoption of the general report. The committee that seeks to strengthen ties between […]
A former member of Commonwealth of Zion Assembly (COZA) has alleged that the church founder and senior pastor, Biodun Fatoyibo, also raped her. The lady, who spoke in anonymity, in another interview released by Y!Naija said the incident happened in 2017 at the Fatoyibo’s house, said she was a staff in the church. She said […]
Babes and Mampintsha’s personal life has hogged headlines ever since a video of Mampintsha slapping the gqom star several times went viral. Despite the assault case still hanging over their heads, the pair seem to have left that behind them. In their first interview together since the debacle, Babes told Ukhozi FM’s Lady D that […]
President Felix Tshisekedi described inter-ethnic bloodshed in DRC’s northeast as “attempted genocide” after scores of people were killed and tens of thousands displaced. The leader of the Democratic Republic of the Congo said the violence appeared to be a “plot” and vowed to “find out the truth” about who was behind the deadly unrest. Fighting […]
Ivory Coast legend Yaya Toure has joined the eighth club of his career after signing for Chinese second division club Qingdao Huanghai a two-year deal. The 36-year-old four-time African Footballer of the Year has not played since having his contract at Greek side Olympiakos terminated in December 2018 and is expected to make his debut […]
Bafana Bafana players will still receive their R320 000 bonus as promised, despite sneaking into the last 16 stage of the 2019 Africa Cup of Nations (AFCON) through the back door. It was a long 24-hour wait before head coach Stuart Baxter and his charges learned they had, in fact, advanced to the next round. […]
The EFF has again criticised President Cyril Ramaphosa over his failure to act with regards to the Public Protector’s remedial action over Pravin Gordhan. Ramaphosa said he would only act on the public enterprises minister following his review of the Public Protector’s findings into the early retirement of former SARS deputy commissioner Ivan Pillay, which […]
Former State House Director of Digital Communications Dennis Itumbi has been arrested. Itumbi was arrested today at City Hall, Nairobi by investigators probing the alleged plot to assassinate Deputy President William Ruto that has pushed political temperatures to a new high. Itumbi now works at the office of Deputy President as the secretary for digital […]
Police in the northern Nigerian city of Kano said on Tuesday they had rescued an in-law of President Muhammadu Buhari from kidnappers, freeing him after an overnight gunfight with his abductors. Special police operatives on Monday evening stormed a hideout on the outskirts of Kano, where Musa Umar had been held since he was captured […]
An airstrike hit a detention centre for migrants early Wednesday in the Libyan capital, killing at least 40 people, a health official in the country’s U.N.-supported government said. The airstrike targeting the detention centre in Tripoli’s Tajoura neighbourhood also wounded 80 migrants, said Malek Merset, a spokesman for the Health Ministry. Mr Merset posted photos […]
Former Finance Minister and current MDC vice president Tendai Biti has warned African countries that debt owed by African countries is ballooning and come 2024, most countries will default. Biti was speaking at an OSISA-organised conference on ‘Southern Africa’s Debt Conundrum’ in Johannesburg on Tuesday. Below is part an abridged version of what Biti had […]
The British High Commission and the Kumasi Metropolitan Assembly (KMA) under the framework of the UK- Ghana Business Council meeting will jointly host the first regional forum in Kumasi to build a shared understanding of priorities on economic development, job creation, trade and investment on July 2, 2019. This meeting in Kumasi, a first of […]
Benin held Cameroon to their third draw in the Group F as they maintained 100% unbeaten record in the entire group matches played at this stage of the AFCON tournament as they played a goalless draw against the Indomitable Lions. Cameroon had couples of Chances to break the deadlock but the squandered the opportunities to […]
At 4:39 p.m. local time tomorrow, July 2, fish of the south Pacific and some lucky people in southern Chile and Argentina will be plunged into rare afternoon darkness. It will be the first total solar eclipse since August 21, 2017, and the only only celestial event of its kind in 2019. During a total […]
TY Bello who took to her Instagram page to state her own experience noted that she was also sexually abused at her younger age. She said that being silent after she was sexually abused killed her slowly. The 40-year-old singer said that she only found relief because of her relationship with God. View this post […]
The Atlas Lions of Morocco scored a late minute goal to break South Africa’s heart as they qualified to the next round with maximum points. Morocco pushed South Africa to the limit, with the Atlas Lions making series of attempt to break the deadlock but South Africa remained watertight in the defence. Morocco made use […]
7000 Ghanaians face deportation from the US as the crackdown on illegal migrants begins after 4 July… US President Donald Trump says the deportation of undocumented migrants will begin after July 4. “We will be removing large numbers of people starting sometime after July 4,” Trump said. The operation is expected to target up to […]
Biodun Fatoyinbo, Founder and Senior Pastor of Commonwealth of Zion Assembly, has stepped down from his position in the church. This is coming a day after a massive protest was staged at his Lagos and Abuja churches after Busola Dakolo revealed Fatoyinbo raped her multiple times. Fatoyinbo disclosed this in a statement asking the people […]