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Murders in South Africa’s gang-ridden areas continued to rise over the weekend despite the deployment of troops, authorities said. A total of 46 people were murdered over the weekend,…

South Africa’s unemployment rate in Q2 2019 grew by 1.4% to 29%, Statistics South Africa said on Tuesday. The figure is the highest unemployment rate in the country in more than a…

When Eugene Ndereyimana woke up last week, he didn't tell his wife where he was going, and she didn't ask. The less she knew, the better, she thought.The 29-year-old father of two was traveling from his home in…

92-year-old Tunisia's President, Beji Caid Essebsi, has died. Essebsi died at Tunisia's military hospital on Wednesday, according to a statement from the presidency. He had been…

Following the declaration of the Ebola epidemic in the Democratic Republic of Congo as a public health concern by the World Health Organisation (WHO), the World Bank has said it will mobilise $300…

Kenya’s finance minister, Henry Rotich, will be arrested and charged over alleged corruption related to the construction of two dams, the chief prosecutor said on Monday. The Director of Public…

The Ugandan government has announced its plans to begin the issuance of birth certificates to cows in the East African country.This was made known by the country’s Minister for Agriculture, Animal Industry and Fisheries,…

The Zimbabwean Government, on Wednesday, summoned the British envoy over an assault on Foreign Minister, Sibusiso Busi Moyo, and his delegation in London, state-run media reported. The Herald…

Former South African President Jacob Zuma on Tuesday said he had received a death threat after his testimony the previous day to an inquiry on corruption. Zuma told the inquiry on Monday that…

A woman, Priscilla Ncube, has told a court in Zimbabwe that her husband is satan. She said her husband confessed that he was practising satanism and that he also wanted her to be part of their satanic worshipping.Ncube…

South African court, on Friday, found Duduzane, son of former president Jacob Zuma, not guilty of culpable homicide and negligent driving over a fatal car crash that killed a woman in February 2014.After appearing in…

Sudan’s military rulers said on Thursday that several officers had attempted a coup in an effort to undermine an agreement between the military and the opposition to share power for three years…

Ghana is the latest country to be granted a visa-free status by the South African government. South Africa’s Department of Home Affairs has added Ghana to a list of seven countries whose…

Thirteen (13) bodies of illegal African immigrants who drowned off the southeastern coast three days ago, have been recovered by the Tunisian maritime guard on Saturday, a Tunisian Red Crescent…

Egypt’s former President, Mohammed Morsi was buried at dawn in eastern Cairo, his lawyer and family said on Tuesday, a day after he suddenly collapsed during a court session and died. A member of his…

The national Airline Air Zimbabwe has failed to account for 3 planes the Daily News on Sunday has reported. . The aircrafts which have disappeared are MA60. The Auditor General Mildred Chari…

Unidentified gunmen in Cameroon’s Anglophone region kidnapped the leader of one of the country’s leading opposition parties on Friday for the second time in two months, his party said. John Fru Ndi, who…

A 23-year-old former beauty queen in The Gambia, Toufah Jallow, has said she was raped in 2015 by ex-President Yahya Jammeh when he was in office. Her testimony is part of a Human Rights Watch and Trial…

Only In Africa, when developed countries are busy doing research in areas that can benefit man. Our study in Africa is aiming at how certain set of people will go into extinction. After killing of five Men in Mozambique, a superstitious…

Oil, one of the world’s biggest source of income as well as trouble. Senegal being the latest country to be afflicted. On Friday, thousands of people took to the streets of the capital Dakar to protest…

UN Secretary-General António Guterres has defended the organisation’s call for an independent and transparent investigation into the death of former Egypt’s president Mohammed Morsi.The deputy spokesman for the UN chief,…

Egyptian authorities have refused to allow former president Mohamed Morsi to be buried at his family’s cemetery, his son Abdullah Mohamed Morsi said on Monday. In an interview with Reuters,…

Egypt's former President Mohammed Morsi, who was ousted by the army in 2013, has died after fainting in a courtroom, state TV says. A former top figure in the now-banned Islamist movement Muslim Brotherhood, Morsi was in…

Ethiopia has shut down its text messaging service in a move that is coming as part of a break in internet access in the country for more than two days now. The move is targeted to coincide with…