AFRICA

More than 10,000 people have attended an anti-US rally in Ethiopia’s capital, Addis Ababa, to denounce President Joe Biden’s policy on the conflict in the country’s northern region of Tigray. Mr Biden had called for a ceasefire in the conflict, now in its seventh month. At the rally, people held …

President Cyril Ramaphosa announced that SA will move to adjusted level 2 during his address on May 30 2021. Image: Elmond Jiyane/GCIS SA will move to lockdown adjusted level 2 from Monday. President Cyril Ramaphosa on Saturday already confirmed that tighter restrictions were on the cards as SA enters its third …

  Football players are among the highest celebrity earners across the globe. Like musicians, film actors, and show hosts, footballers also make money on and off the field. Some have also established enterprises to not only make more money but to create employment for others. Forbes’s recent publication on the …

IMAGE COPYRIGHTGETTY IMAGESimage captionMr Macron told West African leaders that French soldiers will not be in the region “forever” President Emmanuel Macron has warned that France would withdraw troops from Mali if political instability there leads to greater Islamist radicalisation. It follows a second coup in nine months in the …

Former South African President Jacob Zuma accepted more than 700 bribes over the course of a decade before he was president, including cash payments from French arms company Thales, prosecutors alleged on the first day of Zuma’s corruption trial on Wednesday. Zuma, the president of Africa’s most developed economy from …

  A high court in the South African capital of Pretoria has jailed a serial rapist and robber to on 988 years in prison. The National Prosecutor reported that Sello Abram Maponya bagged 988 years and 5 life terms; with the judge ruling further that sentences were not to run …

A suspected burglar who dressed like a ‘ghost’ to frighten his victims and rob them has been arrested. 27-year-old Norman Chagwiza from Zimbabwe’s Gutu district in the Masvingo Province would dress up in a ‘ghost suit’ and frighten his -victims who would run away leaving him to steal undisturbed. National …

• A number of sons of long serving African presidents are holding infleuntial positions in their father’s government • There is talk of these children possibly succeeding their fathers • Africa has a history of father – son transitions as happened in Gabon, DR Congo, Togo and most recently Chad …

Around 200 sex workers took to the streets of Johannesburg on Thursday to demand prostitution be decriminalized. “This is what I wear to work,” Dudu Dlamini, clad in hiking boots and a long dress, told AFP. “No high heels or short skirts.” “It requires expertise and skills you have no …

14-month-old Kenyan Ayah Lundt was born healthy and hitting all the developmental milestones as the months went by. Her parents noticed things were off from when she was nine months and now they are racing against the clock to raise over $2 million to cover treatment for a rare degenerative …