AFRICA

There are indications that the failure of Emirates Airlines to repatriate its trapped ticket sales fund in Nigeria back to its home country in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) may have led to the carrier’s decision to stop all flights in and out of the country. The airline in a …

Mali has accused France of twin sovereignty breaches – Bamako says France violated its airspace and in so doing supplied arms to militants. Mali’s foreign affairs minister, Abdoulaye Diop, in a letter to the head of the United Nations Security Council dated Monday, August 15, said its airspace has been …

When a Congo woman, identified as Goreth, decided to share her possessions with her younger sister, she never imagined that would include her future husband. From childhood, Goreth had peacefully lived with Mawazo until they were separated by her marriage to one Desire Cipimo. What was initially a happy home …

It is quite disappointing that Africans are never on time for scheduled appointments. This is well recognized because the majority of Africans in the Diaspora also disregard the passage of time. Africans are constantly late for appointments they have with you. The Polish author and journalist Ryszard Kapuscinski’s book “The …

A man in charge of a polling station in Kenya’s capital, Nairobi, has been found dead days after his family reported him missing, Kenyan media outlets are reporting. The body of Daniel Mbolu Musyoka was found in a forest in Loitoktok at the foot of Mt Kilimanjaro near the border …

Eyinatayo Iluyomade, a 19-year-old Lagos-based comedian, has been arrested and charged to court for saying an expensive joke. The skit maker was alleged to have dropped a threat note of robbery at First Bank’s Sabo branch counter, in Ondo town, on Friday. The Police Public Relations Officer of the Ogun …

Veteran Kenyan opposition leader, Raila Odinga, does not agree with the outcome of the just-ended presidential election having lost his fifth bid to deputy president and president-elect, William Ruto. Even though he has yet to officially comment on the loss, a former advisor to Mr. Odinga has spoken to the …

An Unpaid Teacher in SA has turned his anger on a student in the school. Kim Sawaazi, a P.E teacher in a popular Senior High School, SA, according to report by Filasconews.com has not been paid for over Seven months. One afternoon after school hours around 4:30pm, the teacher lured …

William Ruto has won the race to be the fifth president of the East African nation, according to results announced by the Independent Electoral and Boundaries Commission (IEBC). But four election commissioners said they could not support the “opaque” vote count before the announcement, raising questions about what will happen …

The Nigeria police have arrested a 27-year-old man, Munkaila Ado, over the alleged gruesome murder of his boss’ 13-year-old daughter. It was gathered that the suspect, a houseboy, allegedly impregnated the minor and connived with her mother to take her for an abortion. The police command’s spokesperson, in a statement on …