Follow ( 0 Followers ) X Follow E-mail : * Follow Unfollow Over 100 people have died and many more are missing in Mozambique and neighbouring Zimbabwe following a tropical cyclone attack on Sunday. Report confirmed by a lawmaker named Chimanimani in Zimbabwe that the toll there had risen to 65 in the east of […] More
Follow ( 0 Followers ) X Follow E-mail : * Follow Unfollow A total internet shutdown has been imposed in Zimbabwe. A major network provider announced this to its customers, after protests triggered a ruthless security crackdown earlier this week. The country’s biggest service provider, Econet, sent a text message to its customers informing them […] More
Follow ( 0 Followers ) X Follow E-mail : * Follow Unfollow BPresident Uhuru Kenyatta of Kenya has said the gunmen who stormed an upmarket hotel complex have been ‘eliminated’. He said this on Wednesday, a day after the attacks where over 14 people were killed in a 20-hour siege in which hundreds of civilians […] More
Follow ( 0 Followers ) X Follow E-mail : * Follow Unfollow According reports explosions and heavy gunfire rock a hotel complex in the Kenyan capital Nairobi. There is a suspected terror attack unfolding at the complex, which houses a large hotel known as DusitD2, along with several banks and offices. The Police are said […] More
Follow ( 0 Followers ) X Follow E-mail : * Follow Unfollow The Gambia’s long-serving President Yahya Jammeh has had the title of Babili Mansa added to his name. The Mandika-language phrase can be translated as “chief bridge builder” or “conqueror of rivers.” A statement from the presidency said Jammeh should now be known as […] More
Follow ( 0 Followers ) X Follow E-mail : * Follow Unfollow Rival groups of soldiers in Burundi are battling for control of the capital Bujumbura amid confusion over the success of an attempted coup. There is heavy fighting at the state radio building, where broadcasts have been going on and off air. Witnesses say […] More
Follow ( 0 Followers ) X Follow E-mail : * Follow Unfollow Following the increasing xenophobic attacks on foreigners in South Africa, Zulu King, Goodwill Zwelithini, has appealed for calm. The King had been accused of fueling the attacks, which have killed at least seven people, after saying foreigners should “go back to their countries.” […] More
Follow ( 0 Followers ) X Follow E-mail : * Follow Unfollow A court in Nairobi, Kenya capital has convicted three men yesterday for the brutal gang rape of a schoolgirl. Kimberly Brown one of the counsels to the victim said the sentencing will have a ripple effect across the nation, “and hopefully the region […] More
Follow ( 0 Followers ) X Follow E-mail : * Follow Unfollow Schools have reopened across Sierra Leone nine months after they were shut down because of the Ebola outbreak. The government said it hopes that the studying time lost by the country’s 1.8 million children can still be made up for. The United Nations […] More
Follow ( 0 Followers ) X Follow E-mail : * Follow Unfollow Sierra Leone’s Vice-President, Samuel Sam-Sumana, has been sacked for seeking political asylum in a foreign embassy, the president’s office said on Wednesday. President Ernest Bai Koroma said the Vice President was sacked because he had “abandoned” his duties. On Saturday, March 14, Sam-Sumana […] More
Follow ( 0 Followers ) X Follow E-mail : * Follow Unfollow Lawyers to Simone Gbagbo, Ivorian First Lady have decided to appeal the 20-year jail term she got for her role in the post-election violence that killed over 3,000 people. Gbagbo’s counsel, Habiba Toure said “We lodged an appeal in the highest court…The procedure […] More
Follow ( 0 Followers ) X Follow E-mail : * Follow Unfollow Geneva’s public prosecutor, on Tuesday, said that Switzerland will return $380 million (360 million euros) to Nigeria, as part of funds looted by Sani Abacha, former Nigerian military ruler. The prosecutor also announced that it was closing a 16-year case on the funds. […] More
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