AFRICA

Niger’s former president and now opposition leader, Mahamane Ousmane has called on the release of political prisoners and a stop to frequent harassment and threats to activists. Official figures in Niger indicate that over seven hundred have been arrested since the beginning of election unrest Tuesday after Mohamed Bazoum was …

At least 11 alleged terrorists were killed and one was caught during an army operation from Tuesday to Wednesday in the north-east of Burkina Faso, a statement from the Burkina Faso armed forces said. The operation was carried out in the localities of Tasmakat, Bidy, and Fourkoussou as well as …

Congregants became hostile when Johannesburg metro police department (JMPD) officials intervened to halt a mass church service being held in contravention of Covid-19 safety regulations on Sunday. JMPD spokesperson Wayne Minnaar said seven officers attended a complaint about noise at a church in Midway, Soweto. On their arrival at about 1pm, …

SA has officially been moved to Covid-19 alert level 1. President Cyril Ramaphosa made the announcement on Sunday night during his address to the nation on the latest developments around the coronavirus pandemic.   The changes were due to kick in as of Monday, with a gazette expected to be …

The killing of a teenage woman in Lotus River, Cape Town, has left her household shattered and distraught, the native Community Policing Forum (CPF) stated on Saturday. The 15-year-old woman was sitting in entrance of a home with a bunch of different kids on Friday night when armed males approached …

A man in Benue state, identified as Terhemen Anongo, popularly called Doc K or Bob Korna, has cut off part of his genitals to curb his libido. Since he couldn’t control his thirst for women, he decided to take the advice in the Bible by cutting off that which causes …

9 Cameroonians suspected of being homosexuals have been arrested in western Cameroon. Two of the suspects are still in custody, a police officer and a lawyer told AFP on Thursday. “We arrested them to check if they are homosexuals,” an officer in the town of Bafoussam, where the nine men …

Cameroon has launched an awareness campaign among the population after two cases of polio were detected in Yaounde, health officials said Thursday. “The response consists of sensitizing communities for the observation of hygiene measures, intensification of routine immunization, and epidemiological surveillance,” Dr. José Shalom Tchokfe, head of the Ministry of …

The Mthatha magistrate’s court on Thursday issued a warrant of arrest against the AbaThembu King Buyelekaya Dalindyebo. The monarch failed to appear in court on charges that he allegedly assaulted his son, the former acting king, Prince Azenathi Dalindyebo, in 2020. NPA spokesperson Luxolo Tyali said Dalindyebo was due to …

Nigerian airlines are beginning to reduce airfares on local routes as new airlines spring up, passenger traffic gradually improves and more aircraft are being deployed on local destinations, intensifying competition on these routes. Few weeks after the resumption of local flight operations across Nigeria, BusinessDay had reported a 100 percent …