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SA Daycare Suddenly Has Tigers Living Next Door, Looking Over The Wall (Photos)
Teachers at a daycare centre in Johannesburg, South Africa were shocked last week when, during outside playtime, they looked up and saw a white tiger watching them. The tiger is the…
Namibian genocide: Anger over Germany’s $1.3bn reparation offer
Namibian opposition lawmakers have criticised a 1.1 billion euro ($1.3 billion) compensation offer from Germany for its 1904-1908 genocide in the country and called on the…
SA Seizes Mercedes From Mbuso Moloi Who Looted Groceries During The Riots
The basket of goods that 30-year-old Mbuso Moloi was filmed looting from the Woolworths store in July, could have cost no more than 500 rands (14,000 naira) had he paid for it but the…
Coup attempt foiled in Sudan
A coup attempt in Sudan “failed” early Tuesday, state media reported, as the country grapples with a fragile transition since the 2019 ouster of longtime president Omar al-Bashir. Top…
Mali nears deal with Russian mercenaries, ignores France
Mali has the right to seek military support from Russian mercenaries or whoever it wants, Prime Minister Choguel Maiga said. He spoke after France and other foreign powers expressed…
Abdelaziz Bouteflika, Algeria’s longest-serving president dies
Abdelaziz Bouteflika was a dominant figure in Algerian politics for more than six decades. Most notably, he served as Algeria's longest-serving president from 1999 to 2019. Born to Algerian parents in Oujda, Morocco…
Guinea: ECOWAS Freezes Assets, Imposes Travel Ban On Coup Leaders
West Africa’s main regional bloc has imposed sanctions against the military government in Guinea and those slowing Mali’s post-coup transition – its toughest response yet to a run of…
Condom Vending Machines In South African Schools To Fight HIV, Pregnancies (Photos)
The department of basic education in South Africa has made available condom vending machines in some schools in a bid to decrease teenage pregnancies and the incidence of HIV/Aids.…
COVID-19 infections in Africa has dropped by 20%, WHO reveals
The World Health Organisation (WHO) has said that COVID-19 infections in Africa had dropped by more than 20 per cent, noting that it was the sharpest seven-day drop in two months, as the…
AU suspends Guinea, Doumbouya junta in more trouble
The African Union suspended Guinea’s membership on Friday over last weekend’s military coup, just as envoys from the ECOWAS bloc arrived to mediate in the crisis. The AU…
Son of ex-Libya’s dictator Muammar Gaddafi freed from jail
Saadi Kadhafi, son of Libya’s late dictator Moamer Kadhafi, who was overthrown and killed in a 2011 uprising, has been freed from jail, a justice ministry source confirmed to AFP Sunday. “Saadi Moamer Kadhafi has been freed…
Jacob Zuma released on medical parole — after two months in jail
Jacob Zuma, a former president of South Africa, has been granted medical parole. Parole is the release of a prisoner to supervision in the community after he/she has completed a part…
BREAKING: Military seizes power in Guinea, detains president
The government of President Alpha Conde of Guinea has been toppled hours after heavy gunfire near the presidential palace in Conakry, the capital. A Guinean army colonel announced the…
Zambia’s new president appoints man who detained him as head of prisons
Ha kain de Hichilema, president of Zambia, has appointed Kuyomba Bwalya as deputy commissioner-general of the country’s correctional service. Hichilema was a detainee under Bwalya in…
Suspected militants kill 19 in eastern Congo village
Suspected Islamist militants killed at least 19 people in a raid on a village in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, local authorities said. The attackers looted houses and started fires in Kasanzi-Kithovo near Virunga…
Nigeria still Africa’s biggest economy after South Africa rebased GDP
Nigeria has maintained her position as Africa’s biggest economy after South Africa released the report of its rebased Gross Domestic Product (GDP) that pushed the latter’s economy up by 11 per cent, an analysis of a new…
Samsung Blocks TVs Looted By South Africans, Making Them Useless
Electronics giant Samsung has "blocked" TVs that were stolen in South Africa during the unrest in July, rendering them unusable. The company says it has an inbuilt “block…
Zambia new president sworn in on pledge to repair economy, rights
Zambia’s newly elected president Hakainde Hichilema on Tuesday promised to rebuild the ailing economy and alleviate poverty as he was sworn in following an election…
South Africa Unemployment Rate Rises to Highest in the World
South Africa’s unemployment rate surged to the highest on a global list of 82 countries monitored by Bloomberg. The jobless rate rose to 34.4% in the second quarter from 32.6% in the three months…
Hissene Habre, Chad’s former dictator, dies of COVID-19
Hissene Habre, former Chadian head of state, has died at the age of 79. He was being treated for COVID-19 before he breathed his last on Tuesday at a hospital in Senegal. In 2016, Habre became the first former head of…
South Africa police seize 60kg of lions’ teeth, claws
Police in South Africa have arrested a Vietnamese man and seized about 60 kilos of lion claws, teeth and other items following a four-month probe…
Wildfires: Algeria mourns as death toll rises to 65
Firefighters, troops and civilian volunteers battled blazes in forests across northern Algeria on Wednesday as the country reeled at a death toll of at least 65 people in the…
Sudan To Hand Ex-President Omar Al-bashir To ICC
Sudan's cabinet has decided to hand over longtime autocrat Omar al-Bashir and other wanted officials to the International Criminal Court (ICC), foreign minister Marian al-Mahdi…
I tried to resist corruption as ex-president Zuma’s deputy – Ramaphosa
South Africa’s President Cyril Ramaphosa, said he chose to “remain but resist” rather than resign as deputy president when allegations of widespread corruption surfaced under his…