AFRICA

At least 23 people have drowned after a bus travelling to a wedding plunged into a flooded river in Kenya. Video footage shows the bus was swept away after the driver tried to cross fast-flowing water over a bridge in the Enziu River, about 200km (125 miles) east of the …

President Akufo-Addo says recent travel bans imposed on multiple African Countries following the discovery of the Omicron variant of COVID-19 by South African scientists is unacceptable and regrettable. The President’s comments follow the decision by the United States (US), United Kingdom (UK) and European Union (EU) to bar entry to …

Conservationists in South Africa have developed a new app that will help them to monitor South Africa’s unique renosterveld landscapes using satellite images to detect when farmers are illegally encroaching into this critically endangered ecosystem. The renosterveld means rhino fields. It’s a land of rolling hills stretching across the Western …

Gambians voted by dropping marbles into coloured tubs, due to high levels of illiteracy. By JOHN WESSELS (AFP/File) Gambians were waiting Sunday to find out the winner of the first presidential election in the tiny West African nation since former dictator Yahya Jammeh fled into exile, with incumbent Adama Barrow …

Uganda on Friday dismissed as “baseless propaganda” reports that its airstrikes and artillery bombardments launched at several bases of the Allied Democratic Forces (ADF) in the Eastern Congo provinces of North Kivu and Ituri killed civilians. This come barely days after Uganda People’s Defence Forces (UPDF) and their Congolese counterparts …

Africa is indeed a strange continent with some of the weirdest traditions: from cleansing corpses and using the water to prepare communal meals to beat one another senselessly just to impress a woman, the continent is undeniably rich in culture. Whether these customs are beneficial in any way to those …

12-year-old boarding student dies in Nigeria The deceased was bullied by his seniors Public demand justice for the late student of Dowen College The has been a massive outcry and demand for justice in Nigerian, West Africa over the death of a 12-year-old student of the Dowen College in Lekki, …

Terror attacks happening in West Africa Ghana security on high alerts for terrorist attacks Ghana Armed Forces says collaborations are important to fight terrorism Ghana has joined three other West African countries in a joint operation that was aimed at countering terror attacks in the sub-region. The countries, Ghana, Burkina …

The African Union boss Moussa Faki Mahamat says the world owes Africa responsibility to lift travel restrictions imposed on the continent over the new COVID-19 variant. At a conference between the African Union and the UN on Wednesday, Mr Faki said there was no “common sense” or scientific reasoning behind …

The first case of the new Omicron coronavirus variant, has been detected on the popular Spanish holiday island of Mallorca. The mutation of the coronavirus was detected in a 20-year-old Swiss woman who had travelled from South Africa via Frankfurt to the island, the German-language Mallorca-Zeitung newspaper reported on Thursday. …