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Tunisia: Officer killed in a knife attack

Attackers with knives killed a Tunisian National Guard officer and wounded any other Sunday earlier than three assailants have been shot useless in a firefight, the protection pressure said, labelling it a “terrorist” act. The attack took area in the traveller district of the coastal city of Sousse, the web site of the worst of […]

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City Lodge parks dividend after loss of R486 m due to coronavirus

City Lodge Hotels parked its remaining dividend charge for the yr ended in June as it fluttered to a R486.6million loss on Covid-19 monetary fallout on its hotels. The crew stated the day gone by that it was once not planning to pay dividends in the short term, given the affect of Covid-19 on its […]

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Sudan: Government, armed groups set to sign final peace deal on Oct. 2

The last signing of a peace agreement between Sudan’s government and rise up agencies is set for October two in the South Sudanese capital Juba, the talks’ chief mediator announced Sunday.   “The 2d of October is the date for the closing signing of the peace settlement between the authorities and the ‘parties to the […]

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Entertainment: ‘I Was So Broke, I Could Only Live In A Shelter’ – Tiwa Savage

Nigerian singer, Tiwa Savage, has revealed some important details from her life while in New York. The award-winning Afro-pop artist was treated to a surprise party for her album launch organized by singer, Lami Phillips and former beauty queen cum fashion entrepreneur, Elizabeth Elohor. At the party, some notable Mavin crew members such as Don […]

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Nigeria: International Flights resume after 5 months

Nigeria on Thursday introduced it would resume global flights beginning Sept. 5 after shuting down flights at its five worldwide airports on March 24 following the virus outbreak. Nigeria had formerly said it would resume flights overseas each time from Aug. 29. Incoming passengers to the us of a are required to elevate a file […]

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Docks of hippos at risk in Namibia ‘s dried-up water hole

Dozens of hippopotamuses are caught in a shrinking pool of mud and water in a recreation reserve in Namibia and are at risk of dying of hunger and thirst, the Daily News online booklet mentioned on Saturday. The pool, in the Wuparo Conservancy about 900 km (600 miles)northeast of the capital Windhoek, was fed from […]

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Kenya pledges to enhance conservation of vultures

Kenya will earmark sufficient resources to promote conservation of vultures amid threat of extinction linked to habitat destruction and retaliatory poisoning by herders, officials said on Saturday at an event to mark International Vulture Awareness Day. Minister for Tourism and Wildlife Najib Balala, , said that protecting vultures and other birds of prey from myriad […]

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Education: Makerere ranked 5th best African university

Makerere University is Africa’s fifth-best university and the high-quality in East Africa, in accordance to the cutting-edge World University rankings by means of Times Higher Education. The ranking places Makerere together with Mansoura University in Egypt, the University of Ibadan, Nigeria, and the Durban University of Technology in South Africa, among others in the same […]

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Breaking: Former Rwandan minister outlines her mission towards food systems – UN

Agnes Kalibata, the former Rwandan Minister for Agriculture, has been tasked with leading the first-ever UN Food Systems Summit. In an interview with UN News, she outlined her imaginative and prescient for a modified international device that is greater resilient, fairer, and much less unsafe to the planet. Food structures involve all the degrees that […]

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Niger: Army accused of executing over 70 civilians, probe says

Soldiers in Niger performed dozens of civilians for the duration of the counterinsurgency marketing campaign towards jihadists in the past this year, a probe has reported. Niger has suffered years of battle with Islamic militants working in the Sahel, with lots of troopers and civilians killed to date. “There have indeed been executions of unarmed […]

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Business: Unilever to get rid of the fossil fuel cleaning goods by 2030

When a company units a aim to reach zero emissions inside decades, it has to begin cutting carbon on each and every possible front. For Unilever, that skill spending $1.2 billion (R19.89 billion) to assist its suppliers undertake technologies to cast off the use of fossil fuels in the manufacturing of cleaning merchandise by way […]

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Four countries at risk of famine – United Nations

U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres warned that there is a danger of famine and tremendous meals insecurity in four international locations affected through conflict — Congo, Yemen, northeast Nigeria, and South Sudan. In a notice to Security Council contributors acquired through The Associated Press on Friday, the U.N. chief said the 4 nations rank “among the […]

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Entertainment: Don Jazzy, D’Banj inspired me to go into music – Davido

Nigerian singer and label record owner, David Adedeji Adeleke, popularly known as Davido, has revealed that Mavin Records boss, Don Jazzy and D’banj inspired him to go into music. The star who is also a father of three children made this known in a recent Instagram Live chat with Grammy Museum. According to him, “Coming […]

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NEWS: Mozambique to lift state of emergency

Mozambique will lift the state of emergency to the unfold of coronavirus this weekend, President Filipe Nyusi announced in a tv address on Friday. Nyusi said the kingdom of emergency would stop Sunday night time as infections have no longer improved tons compared to neighbouring nations in the region. “We are proud of the measures […]

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Street artists fight COVID-19 with art in Rwanda

Street artists in Rwanda are painting the walls in bright colours with an important health message: to stay safe during the coronavirus pandemic. Armed with paints and spray cans, every morning artist Jimmy Rolland decorates walls with his murals. “My painting is one ways we can stop COVID-19, showing one of the way to stop […]

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Zimbabweans Remember Mugabe 1 Year After His Passing

A long queue of downcast Zimbabweans stretches out in Chitungwiza, Zimbabwe as inhabitants await their turn to receive their daily food handout. This way of life was not what many envisioned after the late former president Robert Mugabe was forced to resign from his position in 2017 after 37 years in power. A Chitungwiza resident, […]

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DR Congo: Police Clash Violently with Protesters

Violence broke out in Kinshasa on Friday, near the Supreme Court of the Democratic Republic of Congo, as police subdued a rally of protesters demanding the immediate expulsion of new Rwandan ambassador, Vincent Karega. They are accusing the ambassador of being a records revisionist claiming he has denied Rwanda’s role in the numerous massacres of […]