AFRICA

Large protests have hit Senegal for a third day as demonstrators burnt cars and clashed with police after the arrest of an opposition leader on Wednesday. Ousmane Sonko appeared in court on Friday accused of disrupting public order. He also faces a rape allegation. He denies the allegations and his …

Today marks exactly a year to the day that South Africa confirmed its first COVID-19 case. On 5 March 2020, Health Minister, Dr Zweli Mkhize, announced the news of a 38-year-old COVID-19 patient from KwaZulu-Natal. The man tested positive after a ski trip in Italy with his wife and eight …

An unknown number of young and dangerous crocodiles escaped from a breeding farm in South Africa’s Western Cape province, authorities said on Thursday. Police have set up a special unit to track down the Nile crocodiles, which measure between 1.2 and 1.5 meters in length, said CapeNature, the region’s environmental …

A man in his 70s was killed and his wife seriously injured after being stabbed several times during a suspected house robbery at Mbombela on Thursday. The attack was allegedly carried out by three suspects who gained access to the house, near a school in West Acres, in the early …

Police is Kirinyaga County arrested a teacher from Karoti Girls High School after he allegedly attacked his colleague with a machete in the staffroom. Details indicated that the suspect hacked his male colleague over an alleged love affair with the young female teacher currently practicing at their Karori High school. …

President Muhammadu Buhari has reportedly ordered the military to shoot on sight on anyone seen with AK-47 rifle in the bush. Senior Special Assistant to the President on Media and Publicity, Garba Shehu told BBC Hausa Service in an interview on Wednesday. Bandits and several Fulani herdsmen operate with AK-47 and have …

With the noose of banks that he is indebted to closing in on him, beleaguered businessman and former chairman of the defunct Skye Bank, Dr Tunde Ayeni, is now mounting pressure on the Ibadan Electricity Distribution Company, IBEDC, to raise $1m to bribe the banks. Ayeni is the chairman of …

Home Affairs Minister, Dr Aaron Motsoaledi, has announced the establishment of a Ministerial Committee that will review all permits and visas issued since 2004. The Committee, said the Minister, comes three weeks after the Minister in Parliament expressed an intention to set up a task team to review some permits …

Police in China and South Africa have seized thousands of doses of fake Covid-19 vaccine and made dozens of arrests according to Interpol says. In China, 80 people were arrested at a factory allegedly making fake vaccine, where at least 3,000 doses of their fake vaccine were found.   3 …

Reggae music legend Bunny Wailer has died. Born Neville Livingston, the singer 73 died in his native country of Jamaica. Wailer formed The Wailers in 1963 with the late Bob Marley and Peter Tosh. They would later catapult to fame with the album, “Catch a Fire.” According to Bunny Wailer’s …