AFRICA

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 …

• President Bah Ndaw and PM Moctar Ouane were arrested late Monday • They were hauled to Kati, the centre of Mali’s military apparatus • The reason for the arrest has been put down to a cabinet reshuffle that sidelined two military officers from the transitional government Malian soldiers unhappy …

  Hundreds of protesters partially blocked a highway into Nigeria’s capital Abuja on Monday after residents reported a spate of kidnappings in the area. Setting tyres on fire, the crowd barricaded a section of the Abuja-Kaduna highway in the Tafa area of Niger state, bordering the federal capital, an AFP …

  Observers in the aviation industry note that in February, a military aircraft crashed near Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport, Abuja, in which seven people died. They recalled that in 2021 alone, we had three crashes associated with the military — on February 27, March 31 and the third one was …

• The Gang men gained access to the vessel and sorted the expatriate crew from the Ghanaian counterparts, where they took the former in their skiffs • Reports say MV Atlantic Princess crew failed to post lookout personnel • Information gathered said the armed gangsters disconnected all the communication systems …

Observers in the aviation industry note that in February, a military aircraft crashed near Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport, Abuja, in which seven people died. They recalled that in 2021 alone, we had three crashes associated with the military — on February 27, March 31 and the third one was on …

Hundreds of residents have been returning to their destroyed houses after Mount Nyiragongo erupted on Saturday, in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo. The river of boiling lava stopped short of Goma, a city of two million just south of the volcano. The lava halted near Buhene district, on the outskirts …