AFRICA

Some families in Kenya are eating just once a day, or not at all, because of rising food prices, writes the BBC’s Catherine Byaruhanga in Nairobi. Early in the morning, I find Florence Kambua hunched over, digging through the dump site outside her front door to collect plastic, glass, clothes …

Actor Yul Edochie has offered to help a fellow Nollywood actor, Kenneth Jideofor, popularly known as Aguba, who is reportedly homeless. Pictures of Aguba in a shabby environment trended on the internet on Monday as multiple reports noted that he was homeless at the moment. Reacting to the news, Edochie …

The management of the University College Hospital (UCH), Ibadan, the Oyo State capital, has introduced a new rule compelling patients to pay N1,000 daily each as electricity bill. In an internal memo, the hospital management claimed the new charge on patients was introduced because of the hikes in electricity tariff …

Popular Islamic cleric, Sheikh Muyideen Bello, has slammed the clerics who officiated the housewarming ceremony of crossdresser, Bobrisky. A video of Muslim clerics praying for Bobrisky at the celebration of his new house went viral. In the video, Bobrisky was seen wearing a woman’s outfit with nail extensions as well …

Special Envoy of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) to Guinea, Dr. Mohamed Ibn Chambas has communicated his intention to withdraw as a mediator to the West African State. Guinea, whose junta has refused an ECOWAS mediator announced a 36-month transition period and has conditioned any dialogue towards …

Nigerian man, Ayopo Ogunleye has fathered five sets of twins which have gained him a lot of popularity in his town. After losing a set of twins and a male child, the middle-aged man is now raising 7 children single-handedly as his wife left him due to complaints from her …

Protesters have stormed Libya’s parliament in the eastern city of Tobruk and set fire to part of the building. Images posted online showed thick columns of smoke as the demonstrators burned tyres outside. There have been rallies in other Libyan cities against continuing power cuts, rising prices and political deadlock. …

Police in Nigeria have rescued 77 people, including children, from a church where they were confined in the south-western state of Ondo. Some of them are believed to have been there for months. A police spokesperson said many of them had been told to expect the Second Coming of Jesus …

The first translation of the Quran into the Igbo language has been published in Nigeria. It was launched at an event in the capital, Abuja, at the Ansar-Ud-Deen Mosque, where Muhammad Murtala Chukwuemeka told the BBC it took him five years to translate the sacred Islamic text into Igbo from …

A man accused of engaging in terror activities has been sentenced to serve 15 years behind bars in Kenya. The accused, Charles Kibet Rono alias Bashir, was sentenced by Kahawa Chief magistrate Hon Diana Mochache, on Thursday, June 30, after pleading guilty to two charges of collection of information to …