AFRICA

  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 …

Islamist militants have ambushed a convoy that was trying to rescue civilians from a hotel amid fighting in northern Mozambique, reports say. A South African man has been confirmed as dead, but many details are unclear. Hundreds of people fled the fighting, which began on Wednesday in the town of …

The recent brouhaha surrounding the insistence of a prestigious senior high school in Ghana to have two students with dreadlocks shave off their hair before enrolment has made the headlines on the continent after it was reported on Face2Face Africa among other outlets. The parents of the two students are …

  Late Tanzanian president John Pombe Magufuli has been buried at his family home in his hometown of Chato in the country’s Geita region. Local media portals reported that the late president’s body was lowered into the grave at exactly 16:45 local time at his family home which lies along …

  A 23-year-old mother who was recently filmed brutalizing her five-year-old son has been sentenced to two years in prison. Patience Uwimana, a resident of Byuma Village, Kyazanga Town Council in Lwengo District was on Wednesday convicted by Masaka Grade One Magistrate, Ms Christine Nantege for torturing her son on …

A customs officer attached to the Western Marine Command drowned Monday, March 22, while chasing smugglers along the Badagry water channel. The Nigerian Customs Service (NCS) Western Marine Command, on Wednesday, March 24, announced that it lost an officer in a boat mishap. The Public Relations Officer, Idaho Sulaiman, disclosed …

South African Preacher, Pastor Christ Penelope has caused a stir on social after images and videos captured the weird manner he performs deliverance in his Church. Pastor Christ Penelope farts on church members faces all in the name of deliverance. The leader and founder of Seven Fold Holy Spirit Ministries …

Image: SABC News The Judicial Commission of Inquiry into Allegations of State Capture is once again heading to the  Constitutional Court on Thursday to seek an order for former President Jacob Zuma to be arrested. Zuma has steadfastly refused to appear before the Commission, accusing its presiding officer Deputy Chief …

  Namibians are protesting today demanding that government grants citizenship to twins belonging to a gay couple. According to a local news portal, The Namibian, a crowd of close to 100 people gathered at the home affairs ministry’s head office in Windhoek to demand that the children of the couple …