AFRICA

The SABC is retrenching 621 employees in a major shake-up amid the cash-strapped national broadcaster’s turnaround process. Group CEO Madoda Mxakwe said in a letter the section 189 process was extremely difficult and emotionally charged, but “a necessary component of the SABC’s turnaround plan to ensure the public broadcaster’s long-term …

An interpreter who handled President Cyril Ramaphosa speech during the state funeral of the late John Magufuli at Jamhuri Stadium in Dodoma, Matungwa Lwamwasha has admitted to have distorted the translation of what was being said by South Africa’s head of state. Lwamasha said, however, after the error occurred that …

Nigerian Twitter is boiling after 50 people who attended a birthday party of an alleged Yahoo Boy (Sakawa Boy) have died mysteriously. According to reports on social media the birthday was held over the weekend in Alagbole Akute in Nigeria and it was a grand celebration. The birthday boy had …

A 30-year-old woman, Blessing Jimoh, has been arrested by men of the Ondo State Police Command for allegedly killing her mother, Ijeoma Odo. According to the Nation Reports, Miss Jimoh butchered her mother after her pastor stated she is a witch. The suspect confessed she killed her mother while they …

The Ambassador Prince Daniel O. Chukwuocha ( PADOC FOUNDATION) Eminent Peace Ambassador,International Association of World Peace Advocate; United Nations Peace Volunteers. Fmr. S.L.A. to the speaker, Federal House of Representative, National Assembly Abuja, Nigeria. Fmr. Executive Boss Obowo L.G.A. Imo state. A philanthropist par Excellence;  a servant of Humanity ; …

  Mama Sarah Obama is dead, family sources confirmed to local media outlets on Sunday evening. She was the grandmother to Barack Obama, the former President of the United States. Mama Sarah had been sick for a while and died while undergoing treatment at Jaramogi Oginga Odinga Teaching and Referral …

The police in Akwa Ibom State have arrested a woman, Christiana Wilson, from Eket LGA, who allegedly conspired with four others to murder her 19-year-old step-son identified as Edidiong Wilson. While parading the suspects at the Police Headquarters in Uyo, the Commissioner of Police, Andrew Amiengheme, said the suspects confessed …

Madagascar has many “mini” creatures. These include a recently discovered group of miniaturised frogs as well as the discovery earlier this year of the smallest reptile on earth – the Brookesia nana, or nano-chameleon, which is the size of a paperclip. Moina Spooner, from The Conversation Africa, asked Dr Mark …

  Achimota School in Ghana, formerly known as Achimota College, was the school where Zimbabwe’s most iconic citizen, Robert Gabriel Mugabe, attended as a student-teacher to attain his certification to be able to work in newly independent Ghana. But how many times can you say that Mugabe is arguably not …

France bears “heavy and overwhelming responsibilities” over the 1994 Rwanda genocide, a report by French historians says, but they found no evidence of French complicity. The expert commission presented the report to French President Emmanuel Macron. The report said France had been “blind” to genocide preparations. At least 800,000 people …