Africa

Business: Now is the time to invest in Africa’s creative industries

Despite the effects of COVID-19, Africa’s young creative industries remain ripe for investment opportunities. African music, film, and fashion continue…

July 16, 2020

COVID-19: 57 health workers test positive in Plateau

The Plateau State Commissioner for Health, Dr. Nimkong Lar, has said that 57 health workers were infected with COVID-19 in…

July 16, 2020

Ethiopia begins filling controversial Nile Dam

ISTANBUL Ethiopia said Wednesday it started to fill the Hidase Dam built on the Nile River. Minister of Water, Irrigation…

July 16, 2020

Health: South Africa Wits University clinicians volunteer for COVID-19 vaccine trial

Six senior clinicians at the Faculty of Health Sciences at University of the Witwatersrand in South Africa, have volunteer to…

July 15, 2020

NEWS: Deadly cattle raids resurge in Uganda’s Karamoja region

How to shelter livestock is an issue that has been at the heart of discussions in Uganda. After more than…

July 15, 2020

Business: Nigerian scholar calls for halt to auction of sacred Igbo artworks

A prominent Igbo-Nigerian artist and academic has called for the cancellation of a forthcoming auction in Paris of two sacred…

July 15, 2020

Breaking: Ladol and NPA’s N16bn allegation

Nigerians and the international business community were shocked in late 2019 when the Nigerian Ports Authority (NPA) reportedly sanctioned the…

July 15, 2020

Thousands of people in DR Congo capital defy protest ban

Thousands of protesters gather in the DR Congo capital Kinshasa, four days after five people were killed in banned demonstrations…

July 15, 2020

No hard working man gives a woman 24 hours of his time – Actor Mike Godson advises ladies

Nollywood actor, Mike Godson, has advised women against people making them feel their men don't love them. According to him,…

July 15, 2020

Former Nigerian president named special envoy to Mali

Former Nigerian President Goodluck Jonathan has been appointed by the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) as a special…

July 15, 2020

Covid-19: Cape Town cop, 38, dies alone during self-isolation

A Cape Town sergeant, who self-isolated after finding out she had Covid-19, ended up dying alone in her flat, her…

July 15, 2020

NEWS: Somalia’s army chief survives suicide car bomb

Somalia’s army commander, General Odowaa Yusuf Rageh has survived a suicide car bomb attack that targeted his convoy at the…

July 14, 2020

Kenyans hold funeral for first doctor to die of covid-19

Family members and colleagues on Monday gather at the funeral of the first Kenyan doctor, Doreen Adisa Lugaliki in Bungoma,…

July 14, 2020

Breaking: UNHCR aids Acholi Quarters pitch upgrade

The Aliguma Foundation annually organises a slums soccer tournament at the Acholi Quarters The Acholi Quarters community has seen a…

July 14, 2020

Business: Thousands of jobs are threatened by the government’s renewed ban on alcohol

Thousands of workers in the South African liquor industry and its value chain are facing job losses after the government…

July 14, 2020

Nigeria: 600 Boko Haram members released

Some 600 Boko Haram members were freed in Nigeria on Monday after they regretted their membership and completed a rehabilitation…

July 14, 2020

Health: Ghana’s COVID-19 case count now 24,988

An update by the Ghana Health Service (GHS) on Monday, July 13, indicated that 470 new cases of the infection…

July 14, 2020

FIFA unhappy after Women’s Africa Cup of Nations is cancelled

Did CAF really make a good decision canceling the 2020 Women’s Africa Cup of Nations? With the outcry that followed…

July 14, 2020

South Africa: Battered and bruised, another woman found dead

East Rand residents came out in numbers to support the family of a 31-year-old woman who was allegedly killed by…

July 14, 2020

It’s Wrong For A Woman To Flaunt Her Endowments – Actress Judith Nneji

Nollywood actress, Judith Nneji, has said that flaunting one's endowment is wrong. In an interview with Vanguard, she gave her…

July 14, 2020

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