The feast of sweets during Ramadan in Egypt is made up of scrumptious candy, cookies, pastries, and other desserts. These delightful confections are created using a variety of different textures, flavours, and aromas. Families enjoy Ramadan dessert treats together after breaking their fast and are often sold by street vendors throughout the city of Cairo. […]
In Cairo, a cannon called “Midfaa Al-Iftar” is fired every day at sunset during the month of Ramadan to let people know it’s time to eat at the end of each day’s fast. The tradition of Midfaa Al-Iftar firing started in the 15th century during the Mamluk dynasty, around 1467 AD, when Sultan Al-Zaher Khoshqadam […]
Public Protector Busisiwe Mkhwebane has found it “implausible” that Public Enterprises Minister simply did not recall meeting one of the infamous Gupta brothers in 2010. In a shocking report released on Friday, Mkhwebane makes several findings against Gordhan in relation to the establishment of an intelligence unit at the South African Revenue Service in 2007, […]
The leader of the Economic Fighters League, Ernesto Yeboah and one other person were on Friday morning arrested at Parliament House for protesting against the proposed 450-seater new chamber for Parliament. They were protesting in the public gallery during proceedings. They reportedly stood up during proceedings and shouted, “drop that chamber, drop that chamber.” That […]
President Muhammadu Buhari has commiserated with families who lost their loved ones in the pipeline explosion which occurred in Ijegun area of Lagos State. The President also urged Nigerians to shun vandalism This was disclosed in a statement signed by his special adviser on Media and Publicity, Femi Adesina on Friday. “President Buhari condoles with […]
Cameroon’s Presidential couple is expected to land in Yaounde late this afternoon after a brief stay in Geneva switzerland marred by protests. Sources say they left the Intercontinental Hotel for the Cointrin airport this morning, heavily guarded by the Swiss police before taking off for Yaounde at exactly 12.30. Paul and Chantal Biya are thus […]
Sudan’s ruling junta and protest leaders reached an agreement on the disputed issue of a new governing body for a transition team in the wake of April ouster of long-serving leader Omar Al-Bashir. The deal reached today (July 5) is seen as a breakthrough in a power sharing accord expected to end the country’s political […]
Around 300 migrants are still being held in the detention centre in Libya where more than 44 people were killed in an air strike, the International Organisation for Migration said on Thursday. Of the 600 migrants that were in the centre, “300 were still there” on Thursday and receiving humanitarian assistance from the IOM, Safa […]
A fresh crisis is haunting Ethiopia as the small Sidama ethnic group is threatening to unilaterally declare on July 18 a new semi-autonomous region in defiance of Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed’s federal government. The Sidama, who make up about 5 percent of Ethiopia’s 105 million people and are the largest of more than half a […]
President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo on Wednesday stated that his government had a clear vision on where it was taking the country, saying that by the end of his mandate, Ghana would have emerged a very prosperous nation. So far, his government, he said, had over the last two and half years made significant progress […]
The Department of International Relations and Cooperation’s senior foreign affairs assistant, William Matjila, has told the commission of inquiry into state capture that he started realising that there were irregularities in the Gupta’s Waterkloof landing of 2013 when he did not receive the required note verbale – or diplomatic correspondence. Matjila, who testified on Thursday […]
A court has handed life and 41 years sentences to three men linked to the 2015 Garissa University attack. Two convicts, Hassan Edin Hassan and Mohamed Anika were jailed for 41 years, as the court found that they did not directly participate in the attack. However, Rashid Charles Mberesero, a Tanzanian, was slapped with a […]
The Minister of Transport Jean Ernest Massena Ngalle Bibehe has sanctioned the two owners of the vehicles involved in the road accident that occurred in Baham, West region of Cameroon on June 23, 2019, taking away the lives of 22 persons. The owner of the truck, Mr Tioyem Jean’s second category ordinary public transport licence […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
Uganda has blocked a request to export excess sugar cane from outgrowers in Busoga region to Kenya. Farmers say they have an overproduction of some 500,000 tones of sugar that processors are unable to absorb but the Minister for Trade, Industry and Co-operatives Amelia Kyambadde says the surplus is only temporary and should not cause […]