AFRICA

The soldier who was filmed drunk in Pretoria has been demoted.  Image: Screengrab A soldier who was filmed in a drunken stupor in Pretoria earlier this month has been demoted, the SA National Defence Force said on Tuesday. A video of the officer surrounded by shocked community members while he struggled …

An exclusive video available to MyNigeria.com showed several Nigerians lamenting about how they were moved from the Kotoka International Airport in a convoy to an isolation center in East Legon, a suburb of Accra. They identified the hotel as M Plaza Hotel. The aggrieved travellers told MyNigeria.com that the Ghanaian …

More than 100 kidnapped children have been released from captivity in Nigeria, an education official told dpa on Friday. Umar Idris, the director of the Islamic Salihu Tanko Islamiyya school in the city of Tegina in the north-western state of Niger, confirmed the news, but it was unclear whether the …

Nigeria President, Muhammadu Buhari, has set social media buzzing with his pair of shoes he wore to an event. The shoe was a blue suede on black socks. In the photo which has gone viral, President Buhari wore white Agbada with a hat and nose mask to match. The camera gazed …

Two Togolese soldiers have been arrested for physically assaulting a Ghanaian man to death at Akato-Viépé, a community in the canton of Aflao Sagbado and on the border between Togo and Ghana, on Monday night. The young man identified as Félix Bedi Gedzah died shortly after being conveyed to a …

A flight carrying Afghan evacuees fleeing the Taliban takeover of their country touched down early Wednesday in Uganda where they will be given temporary refuge, government officials said. The foreign ministry said a charter flight carrying 51 Afghans — including men, women and children — landed in the lakeside city …

South Africa’s unemployment rate surged to the highest on a global list of 82 countries monitored by Bloomberg. The jobless rate rose to 34.4% in the second quarter from 32.6% in the three months through March, Statistics South Africa said Tuesday in a report released in the capital, Pretoria. The …

A Rwandan government official has confirmed that the country will be hosting girls evacuated from the country’s only girl boarding school. Faculty and staff of the school will also be involved in the evacuation. The move comes in the wake of Taliban takeover of the East Asian country following the …

Three officers were killed and several others abducted at the Nigerian Defence Academy in Kaduna following an invasion by armed men. This was confirmed by a witness who told Peoples Gazette that the incident occurred overnight on Tuesday, August 23, 2021. The civilian witness said three soldiers were killed and …

The Jacob Zuma Foundation is appealing for the public to donate towards the former president’s legal fees. File photo. Image: Gallo Images/Volksblad/Mlungisi Louw The Jacob Zuma Foundation has turned to his supporters for donations to help cover the former president’s legal costs. The foundation shared the plea via its official Twitter …