AFRICA

While it would be newsworthy for any country to appoint a 19-years as an ICT Minister, it would be even much newsier if that appointment was made by President Paula Kagame, whose passion about technology for development is well known worldwide. Such was the case on Monday October 5 when …

Suspended Nigerian Deputy Commissioner of Police, Abba Kyari is alleged to have threatened to expose some top government officials if he is released to the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) after a warrant was issued for his arrest in a US court. Kyari, who was formerly the head of the …

Former South African President Jacob Zuma will be allowed out of the prison to appear in person before the commission of inquiry on state capture. Zuma is expected to appear before a Pietermaritzburg court next week Tuesday. In a court order dated 4 August, Koen said the hearing will be …

A Senegalese student was detained Monday, August 2 after he disguised himself as a woman in a bid to sit for national examinations on behalf of his girlfriend. The student enrolled in a university in the north of the country, and his girlfriend was placed under arrest on Monday evening. …

Angola’s President Joao Manuel Goncalves Lourenco on Tuesday described as “very successful and a mission accomplished” his three-day visit to Ghana. Joao Manuel Goncalves Lourenco Tuesday described as “very successful and a mission accomplished” his three-day visit to Ghana. Lourenco, who was in the country on the invitation of President …

A video skit went horribly wrong during a shoot after things took a drastic turn. The actor who posed as a herbalist wanting a virgin lady in a market area attracted a different reaction from residents. The residents who were not informed that the man was an actor descended on …

LIn Africa—as elsewhere in the world—the wealthiest have come through the pandemic just fine. The continent’s 18 billionaires are worth an average of $4.1 billion, 12% more than a year ago, driven in part by Nigeria’s surging stock market. For the tenth year in a row, Aliko Dangote of Nigeria is the …

A top Libyan military commander whose forces control the country’s eastern regions on Friday endorsed the reopening of the coastal highway along the Mediterranean Sea linking Libya’s long-divided east and west. East-based military commander Khalifa Haftar said the Libyan Arab Armed Forces General Command were working towards a “just and …

Awoken by gunshots in the middle of the night, residents of Solhan were shocked by who they saw among the attackers in the town in Burkina Faso’s Sahel region: children. About 160 people were killed in June in the deadliest assault since the once peaceful West African nation was overrun …

Saif Muammar Gaddafi, son of Libya’s former ruler overthrown in 2011, has announced- as the New York times says- his intention to re-enter politics. The New York Times claimed its columnist Robert Worth interviewed Saif last May inside a closed complex in Zintan city, about 136 kilometers southwest of Tripoli. …