AFRICA

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 …

The leader of Mali’s 2020 coup, Col. Assimi Goita, has declared himself the country’s President, hours after the release of Prime Minister Moctar Ouane and President Bah Ndaw from custody. President Bah N’Daw and Prime Minister Moctar Ouane were arrested Monday, along with other government leaders, hours after naming a …

suspected • The police command in Delta arrested a suspect for killing his twin brother at Oleh, Delta state • Sources close to the incident said it might have been carried out for ritual purposes • The incident was confirmed by the Police Public Relations Officer of the state command, …

Mono, a Nigerian startup, has raised $2 million from five investors, to help digital businesses to access financial data and accounts of customers. This fundraising is one out of many. The recent funds was obtained from a seed round, however, the Nigerian API firm, which wires customers and digital businesses …

Two years after the death of the enigmatic and charismatic Zimbabwean leader Robert Mugabe, his wife Grace has been fined five cows and two goats by a traditional court in the country for the transgression of not burying her husband according to traditional customs. Mrs. Mugabe was tried in absentia …