The Confederation of Southern African Football Associations (COSAFA) has banned Zimbabwe from participating in the 2020 senior men’s tournament. The ban follows Zimbabwe’s failure to honour an agreement to host the 2019 edition of the COSAFA Cup tournament. ZIFA had initially agreed to host the tournament but pulled out at the eleventh hour after the […]
Manchester City beat Premier League rival Chelsea to sign Nigerian wonder kid, Samuel Edozie, who played for the youth team of Millwall last season Millwall. The 16-year-old forward has attracted interest from several clubs including Liverpool, Arsenal, Wolverhampton Wanderers, Everton, Bayern Munich, Borussia Dortmund as well as RB Leipzig before agreeing on terms with Pep […]
The United States on Tuesday imposed visa restrictions on Nigerians it said were involved in trying to undermine democracy in presidential and parliamentary elections this year. The U.S. State Department however did not name the individuals or say how many were affected by the visa restrictions. President Muhammadu Buhari won a second term in February […]
Cameroon’s security forces put down a riot by prisoners who ransacked and burnt a jail in the capital Yaounde overnight, witnesses told AFP on Tuesday. The rioters, many of them government opponents or supporters of an English-speaking separatist movement in the country’s west, filmed their protest and posted elements to Facebook. Several inmates were injured, […]
At least 666 people have been killed by flash floods, lightning and torrential rain caused by the monsoon in South Asia, officials say, as further rain is expected in the region through the week. Millions have been affected in India, Nepal, Bangladesh and Pakistan, where landslides and other effects of the rain have forced thousands […]
Vice President Dr. Mahamudu Bawumia has explained to a group of Canadian investors why Ghana is the best investment destination in Africa for both local and foreign investors. According to Dr. Bawumia, not only do Ghana’s political stability and security as well as benign legal and regulatory environment offer the best investment climate, the large […]
The International Cricket Council has barred four Zimbabwe women cricketers from travelling to England to take part in a series of T20 games against Kia Super League teams at the end of July. The cricketers, Zimbabwe women’s captain Mary-Anne Musonda and squad members, Anesu Mushangwe, Tasmeen Granger, and Sharne Mayers had been selected for the […]
Staff members at upmarket jewellery store in Nelson Mandela Square in Sandton, Johannesburg, were showing expensive watches and rings to an interested “customer” when they suddenly found themselves being robbed of goods worth R8m. According to Sandton police spokesperson Captain Granville Meyer, three suspects – two men and a woman – entered the House of […]
Ethiopia’s government said on Monday it would deploy soldiers and federal police to take over security in a restive southern region following days of violence that has left at least 18 people dead. “The regular security structure has been unable to ensure rule of law and has been stymied by various agendas,” said a statement […]
South Sudan’s information minister Michael Makuei said on Monday that the country’s cabinet had banned anyone from singing the national anthem unless the president is present. Makuei told AFP that different leaders and institutions were playing the anthem at whim, which was an abuse of the national tune, written shortly before independence in 2011. “For […]
President Cyril Ramaphosa recently called on young white South Africans not to leave the country in a pre-election campaign drive in Stellenbosch. He said that the fears that many white South Africans have of not being wanted, “is entirely not true”. “There is a place, there is room for all of us,” the president said. […]
Zimbabwe hiked fuel prices on Monday for the second time in a week but most pumps remained dry, with no end in sight to shortages that are helping drive inflation rapidly higher and which have led to protests about the cost of living. The Zimbabwe Energy Regulatory Authority said a litre of petrol would now […]
NKC Research has projected that the Zimbabwe economy will continue deteriorating in 2019 considering the shortages of basic goods and the lack of foreign exchange. Economist at NKC African Economics, Jee-A van der Linde, said: Furthermore, it is unclear whether the re-introduction of the Zimbabwean dollar will yield the desired effect, because the inflation rate […]
A protest by members of the Islamic Movement in Nigeria (IMN) turned violent on Monday in Abuja. The protesters reportedly clashed with security agencies close to the Federal Secretariat in the Nigerian capital. Monday’s incident comes about two weeks after two Shiites were killed and two police officers injured after a similar protest turned violent […]
DR Congo’s health minister resigned Monday, citing his removal as the head of his country’s Ebola response and concerns over a proposed “experiment” with a new, unlicensed vaccine. “As a result of your decision to place the response to the Ebola outbreak under your direct supervision… I hereby submit my resignation as health minister,” Oly […]
South Africa’s highest court has ruled that the public protector – the state official in charge of investigating corruption – had lied under oath and acted in bad faith. The devastating judgement will add weight to claims that Busisiwe Mkwebane is involved in a dirty-tricks campaign to undermine President Cyril Ramaphosa and halt his campaign […]
Health personnel across the country have received advanced techniques on emergency surgery from a visiting team of Israeli doctors to Cameroon. For three days, the team comprised of ten of Israel’s top surgeons were at the Yaounde Central hospital to drill medical personnel drawn from the four corners of the country on the various aspects […]
Human Rights Watch has accused Cameroon security forces of killing at least four civilians and raped one woman in mid June during operations in the North West region of Cameroon. Amongst those killed was an an elderly man with a physical disability and a young man with a mental disability, Human Rights Watch said. “These […]
South African President Cyril Ramaphosa on Sunday said he will seek an urgent judicial review of what he described as an irretrievably flawed report in which the country’s graft watchdog said he misled parliament over a campaign donation. Public Protector Busisiwe Mkhwebane’s report followed an investigation by the watchdog into a 500,000 rand ($35,878.56) donation […]
