AFRICA

Portuguese skipper Cristiano Ronaldo has been the talk of town in football circles after equalling Ali Daei’s record as the joint-highest goalscorer in international football, with 109 goals. With his side still in the Euro 2020 competition, it is just a matter of time before he scores yet another goal …

At least 64 people were killed and 180 injured in an airstrike, on a market in Ethiopia’s Tigray region. Victims are brought to the Ayder referral hospital in Mekele as the army denies targeting civilians. Rescue work at the crash site was delayed as soldiers initially blocked first aid personnel …

IMAGE COPYRIGHTREUTERSimage captionDerek Chauvin was convicted of murdering George Floyd in April The US white ex-police officer convicted of murdering African-American man George Floyd in Minneapolis in May 2020 has been sentenced to 22 years and six months in jail. The judge said Derek Chauvin’s sentence was based “on your …

  • Evangelist Bisola Johnson has alleged the late TB Joshua was sleeping with a lot of young girls in his church • She said, she used to be a sex slave of the prophet • TB Joshua died on June 5 after a church service Evangelist Bisola Hephzi-Bah Johnson, …

Kenya’s military has confirmed the deaths of several soldiers after a military helicopter crashed during training outside Kenya’s capital, Nairobi, a military statement says. But it does not give details on the numbers. Injured soldiers have been airlifted to a military hospital in Nairobi, the statement adds. It is still …

Watch the video Below: A video making rounds online has shown moment a Zambian TV news presenter went off script and demanded his salary and that of his colleagues during a live news report. According to social media users, the incident occurred last weekend. Shortly after giving a roundup of the …

Former Prime Minister of Côte d’Ivoire and former rebel leader Guillaume Soro was on Wednesday, June 23, 2021 sentenced, in absentia, to life imprisonment for “undermining state security” for acts committed in late 2019. The Abidjan court also sentenced other main defendants – Souleymane Kamagate, former head of protocol for …

The Southern African Development Community (SADC) has said it agreed to deploy troops to Mozambique to help it tackle escalating violence in the country’s north – but offered little specific operational details. Nearly 3,000 people have been killed and almost 800,000 – half of whom are children – have been …

Mauritania’s former President Mohamed Ould Abdel Aziz has been jailed after a judge in charge of a corruption probe ordered his incarceration. The ex-leader says he is being persecuted in a bid to keep him out of politics but has vowed he would not go into exile. A prosecutor, speaking …

Ten members of a family have been sent to their early grave after consuming a local herbal mixture purported to be the cure for an ailment. The tragedy happened in Biogberu village in the local government area of Kwara State in Nigeria on June 18. Confirming the incident, the spokesperson …