AFRICA

Nigeria’s senior most Methodist Church leader has been released by kidnappers barely 24-hours after he was abducted. The Prelate, his Eminence Samuel Uche, was kidnapped along with two other clerics by unknown gunmen on the Lokpa axis of the Enugu-Port Harcourt Expressway on Sunday, May 29. He was released along …

Relations between the Democratic Republic of Congo and Rwanda seemed to deteriorate Saturday, May 28 after DRC barred RwandAir from the country. Patrick Muyaya, the spokesman for the Congolese government, announced that DRC has “immediately” suspended the flights, adding that a “stern warning is given to the Government of Rwanda” …

After several days of waiting, the Ocean Viking rescue vessel has been allowed to dock in Sicily with 294 migrants on board. The ship entered the port of Pozzallo on the southern tip of the Italian island on Monday morning. Some of the migrants, who were rescued in several operations, …

Investigators in Birmingham, Alabama, have found the lifeless body of Kamille McKinney – the three-year-old, who went missing more than a week ago. Affectionately called ‘Cupcake’, Kamille vanished outside a birthday party on October 12, only for her remains to be found 10 days later in a garbage bin after …

A 15-year-old who has been missing for nearly a year has been found after her mother chanced upon dozens of adult videos of her online. The mother alerted the police of the videos in which her daughter was being abused, leading to the teen’s rescue. Police arrested a 30-year-old man, …

Thelma “Butterfly” McQueen’s plan was to become a nurse, but a teacher asked her to take up dancing, which she eventually did. Born in Tampa, Florida on January 8, 1911, McQueen moved to Harlem, New York, where she joined a Harlem theater group after having studied nursing in the Bronx. …

Reports indicate that at least four people have died after an All Progressives Congress primary election for House of Representatives and house of assembly positions turned bloody in Igando, Lagos state. The incident occurred on Friday, May 27, at Igando-Ikotun and Mosan-Okunola council secretariat where the primary election was been …

Florence Karp is a food entrepreneur based in the United States. She markets and sells her own line of traditional Nigerian sauces to Minnesota grocers and stores. She worked as a teacher, a seamstress, and a caterer in Nigeria before migrating to the United States in search of better opportunities …

Dr. Wale Okediran, the General Secretary of the Pan African Writers’ Association (PAWA) says there is a need to capitalize on the numerous benefits of technology to commercialize Africa’s intangible cultural heritage. He said this during the Indigenous African Music and Dance Conference, organized under the auspices of the Ministry …

The French ambassador to South Africa, Aurelien Lechevallier, has stressed that his country has friendly relations with African countries. He made the comments during a brief appearance on Wednesday, May 25, to receive a petition demanding that France leaves Africa. “We are friends to African nations,” he told protesters from …