Follow ( 0 Followers ) X Follow E-mail : * Follow Unfollow Samuel Sam-Sumana, Sierra Leone’s vice-President, has sought political asylum at the US embassy in the capital after soldiers surrounded his house. Sam-Sumana said his wife had fled the residence but it is unclear if they are inside the embassy. The move comes a week […] More
Follow ( 0 Followers ) X Follow E-mail : * Follow Unfollow An Abidjan court has sentenced Simone Gbagbo, former First Lady of Ivory Coast to 20 years in jail following her role in the violence that followed the country’s 2010 elections. The 65-year-old Gbagbo, had been charged with undermining state security. Laurent Gbagbo, her […] More
Follow ( 0 Followers ) X Follow E-mail : * Follow Unfollow A woman has been arrested in South Africa for allegedly stabbing and killing a well-known local rapper. Nkululeko Habedi, known as Flabba, 38 died, in his home in Alexandra, a Johannesburg, South Africa, township. Police have said his girlfriend will be charged with […] More
Follow ( 0 Followers ) X Follow E-mail : * Follow Unfollow A court in Dar Es Salaam, has sentenced four Tanzanians to death after being found guilty of murdering an albino woman. They were said to have killed the woman in 2008, because they believed her body parts had special powers, according to the […] More
Follow ( 0 Followers ) X Follow E-mail : * Follow Unfollow Eight cholera cases have been confirmed in Harare, Zimbabwe, including two on the border with South Africa, state media reported on Thursday. The broadcasting corporation said, two children, aged five and 10, had been quarantined with cholera at Beitbridge District Hospital, six other […] More
Follow ( 0 Followers ) X Follow E-mail : * Follow Unfollow President Idriss Deby of Chad, on Wednesday, revealed that he knows the hideout of Abubakar Shekau, the Boko Haram leader, and vowed that the leader of the insurgent group will be killed if he fails to surrender. “It is in Abubakar Shekau’s interest […] More
Follow ( 0 Followers ) X Follow E-mail : * Follow Unfollow Namibian President, Hifikepunye Pohamba, has won the world’s most valuable individual award, the Mo Ibrahim prize for African leadership. The $5m (£3.2m) award is given each year to an elected leader who governed well, raised living standards and then left office. Pohamba, a […] More
Follow ( 0 Followers ) X Follow E-mail : * Follow Unfollow Sam Sumana, the Vice President of Sierra Leone, has placed himself in quarantine, because of the recent death of one of his guards due to the Ebola Virus Disease. The Vice President took this decision just as the country introduces travel restriction as […] More
Follow ( 0 Followers ) X Follow E-mail : * Follow Unfollow At least nine people have died in a boat accident in Guinea, with about 30 people still missing on Saturday. The boat capsized near the Forecariah district, in the country’s south. Eighteen people on board were rescued. A local security source said that […] More
Follow ( 0 Followers ) X Follow E-mail : * Follow Unfollow At least four persons have been reported dead in Sierra Leone due to Ebola Virus. Sierra Leone health ministry officials said this is the first confirmed case in the West African country following a similar outbreak in Guinea. Amara Jambai, director of disease […] More
Follow ( 0 Followers ) X Follow E-mail : * Follow Unfollow Amidst tight security mounted by the police and the military, millions of Egyptian voters are casting presidential ballots across the nation. The election, which is the second in two years, was scheduled to hold on Monday and Tuesday and has just two candidates […] More
Follow ( 0 Followers ) X Follow E-mail : * Follow Unfollow Godfrey Kamanya, a Malawian minister, on Thursday, May 22, committed suicide after losing his parliamentary seat at the general elections. Kamanya, the outgoing deputy Local Government Minister, shot himself in his home. Though the official results of Tuesday’s election are yet to be […] More
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