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An unusual situation is developing in South Africa on TikTok, and strangely enough, Robbie Wessels got entangled in it. An unusual track is circulating on various social media channels Robbie Wessels TikTok AI song and causing some followers of the famous entertainer to think he is releasing a brand-new song. It is safe to say […]
A Nigerian, Emmanuel Mong, caught trying to catch a flight home, is in the process of being extradited from Washington to Stamford in California, where he will face charges that he illegally intercepted a $30,000 wire transfer from Purdue Pharma. According to Port of Seattle Police, 24 year-old Mong of Savannah, Georgia, was trying to […]
Former Ivorian rebel chief and candidate for the 2020 presidential election, Guillaume Soro, on Tuesday denounced the arrest of his supporters. He also denounced the will of the government to prevent him from running in the polls, after his return from an overseas engagement was briefly aborted. Using social media platform, Twitter; Soro gave his […]
A crew member was killed and four others were taken hostage by pirates in waters off the capital of Gabon, a government spokesperson confirmed on Sunday, December 22. Government spokesperson Edgard Anicet Mboumbou Miyakou said four vessels were targeted in the overnight attack in the bay of Libreville by unidentified pirates travelling in speedboats. Miyakou […]
Eritrean president Isaias Afwerki is in Ethiopia on an official visit. He was met at the Addis Ababa International airport by his host Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed. Eritrea’s Information Minister said in a tweet that: “The two leaders will discuss enhancement of important bilateral and regional matters.” Afwerki was accompanied by Eritrea’s Foreign Minister Osman […]
Pro-democracy campaigner and journalist, Omoyele Sowore, has been released from detention. He was released on Tuesday evening following an order to the Department of State Services by Nigeria’s Attorney-General of the Federation and Minister of Justice, Abubakar Malami (SAN), for his freedom. More to come…
A high court in Botswana’s capital on Tuesday dismissed the opposition Umbrella for Democratic Change’s (UDC) call to have the results of the October general election thrown out over “irregularities”. Botswana voted on October 23 and the ruling Botswana Democratic Party (BDP) won with a majority of 38 seats against the UDC’s 15 seats in […]
The United States has withdrawn its ambassador to Zambia, saying it is “dismayed” by the Zambian government’s statement that Ambassador Daniel Foote’s position “is no longer tenable.” The move is the latest in a row with authorities in the southern African nation after Foote criticised the jailing of a gay couple. “Despite this action, the […]
Ivory Coast’s public prosecutor on Monday issued an arrest warrant for Guillaume Soro, a former rebel leader and candidate in next year’s presidential election, forcing Soro to call off a planned homecoming after months overseas. The move against Soro, who retains the loyalty of many former rebel commanders who now hold senior positions in the […]
Ivory Coast presidential candidate Guillaume Soro’s planned return home was aborted on Monday as security forces waited at the airport and stormed his party headquarters in Abidjan. Soro, a former rebel chief, landed in neighbouring Ghana after his private flight was diverted “against his will”, his party said. His scheduled return to the Ivory Coast […]
Ethiopia’s Inter-Religious Council on Monday asked the government to work with communities in order to protect religious institutions, following the weekend’s arson attacks on four mosques in the Amhara region. The religious leaders called on Ethiopians to help rebuild the mosques and businesses that were burned down in the Mota town, even as inter-communal and […]
Ethiopia says it has made significant progress in the construction of its flagship Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD) project, even as negotiations to resolve a dispute over filling the dam’s reservoir continue. The $4 billion Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD) was announced in 2011 and is designed to be the centerpiece of Ethiopia’s bid to […]
Algeria’s powerful army chief, Lt.-Gen. Ahmed Salah, who was instrumental in bringing down long-time President Abdelaziz Bouteflika, has died of a heart attack, state media reported on Monday. The 79-year-old’s death comes at a time of mass protests across Africa’s largest country, with many Algerians demanding that the ruling elite relinquish power and the influential […]
The presence of French troops in the Sahel under the so-called Barkhane Operation happened on the “expressed request” of the leaders of the G5 Sahel states, President Emmanuel Macron has said by Assane Seydou “I cannot accept to send our soldiers on the ground, in countries where this request is not clearly accepted and where […]
Kenya Tea Development Agency managed factory tea prices rose by 1.74 percent to close at $2.64 per kilogram (kg) of made tea during the last auction of 2019 compared to $2.59 per kg at the same period last year, the KTDA disclosed on Monday.This is against the backdrop of a fall in global tea prices […]
Egypt will begin importing natural gas from the Israeli regime by mid-January 2020, a senior industry source says. The unnamed source, who was quoted by Reuters on Sunday, added that Israel’s gas exports to the Arab country would gradually reach 7 billion cubic meters. Last year, the Egyptian company, Dolphinus Holdings, signed a landmark deal […]
Four mosques were set on fire by some angry Chritians in Mota town of northern Ethiopia after a church was set ablaze by unidentified people. A religious dispute also broke in the town after the incident.The dispute began on Friday as unidentified people set the Saint George Orthodox Church on fire which was put under-control […]
Thousands of well-wishers turned out on Saturday to welcome former Central African Republic president Francois Bozize on his return from exile. Bozize, who was ousted in a 2013 coup, was making his first public appearance nearly a week after returning to the country following six years away. Bozize climbed on to the back of a […]
A Belgian court on Friday sentenced a former Rwandan official convicted of genocide for his part in his country’s 1994 massacres to 25 years in prison. Fabien Neretse, an agricultural engineer, was arrested in France in 2011 and was found guilty of genocide and war crimes on Thursday after a trial in the Brussels high […]