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Videos have documented at least four men being assaulted and detained in Senegal since May 23, when a conservative group held a large rally calling for homosexuality to be classified as a more serious crime. Activists say that over the last three weeks at least 150 gay men have received …

Major Hamza Al-Mustapha (rtd), former Chief Security Officer (CSO) of late Head of State General Sani Abacha, has revealed that the long held assumption that the former head of state died from eating a poisoned apple from prostitutes is false. Former CSO explained how General Abacha died in an interview …

  Boko Haram leadership have confirmed the death of its longserving leader, Abubakar Shekau. Local media portals in Nigeria cited a video in which the Shekau faction spoke about the demise of the former leader. The announcement made in Arabic was by one Bakura Sahalaba who was flanked by a …

A boy holds what he believes to be a diamond dug out of the ground at KwaHlathi village near Ladysmith, South Africa. By Phill Magakoe (AFP) Single mother Lihle Magudulela spat out a mouthful of dirt as she sucked on a stone dug up from a hillside in South Africa’s …

Cyril Ramaphosa pictured at the Union Buildings. Ludovic MARIN / AFP President Cyril Ramaphosa addressed the nation on Tuesday night, in which he announced that the country would move to Level 3 . This includes a curfew from 22:00 to 04:00, and restrictions on gatherings. Read his full speech below: …

  Two brothers died after consuming manioc, allegedly poisoned, in a field in the 11 de Novembro neighbourhood, on the outskirts of the city of Luena, in Moxico, Angola. According to the father of the victims, Lázaro Eurico, who was speaking to the press today, Monday, June 14, despite vomiting …

President Cyril Ramaphosa. GCIS Cabinet will, on Tuesday afternoon, ratify a proposal first tabled to the National Coronavirus Command Council (NCCC) and then to the Presidential Coordinating Committee (PCC) to restrict alcohol sales off-site between Monday and Thursday – in light of the third wave of Covid-19 infections. Cabinet was …

  Rival politicians in Israel have formed a new government to remove Benjamin Netanyahu, the country’s longest-serving leader, from power. After four parliamentary elections in two years, opposition leader Yair Lapid, a former TV news anchor, put together a coalition with Naftali Bennett, a former settler leader and hard-right religious …

3 Menu › Africa The Zambian government on Sunday June 13 confirmed that President Edgar Chagwa Lungu recovered from sudden dizziness whiles officiating a military event in the capital Lusaka. According to a statement signed by Simon Miti, Secretary to the Cabinet and Principal Private Secretary to the President, Lungu’s episode …

Five out of ten cities that are not liveable are found on the African continent according to a report by the Economic Intelligence Unit, EIU. Lagos, Nigeria’s commercial capital was ranked the second worst city to live in globally but that meant it is the worst in Africa according to …