AFRICA

The Zimbabwean Judicial Services Commission has announced that it is now investigating Bulawayo High Court judge, Justice Thompson Mabhikwa, after his nudes,  bedroom photos, as well as raunchy WhatsApp messages were leaked on social media. The nude photos and WhatsApp messages are suspected to have been leaked by an irate lover when she …

South Africans are calling for Nigerians to leave their country after a video went viral, showing a woman, believed to be from South Africa, twerking for some Nigerian men. #NigeriansMustFall is the number 1 trending topic on Twitter at the moment. South Africans are using the hashtags #NigeriansMustFall and #NigeriansMustGo …

Ugandan LGBTQ activist Brian Wasswa died on Oct. 5, one day after the 28-year-old was attacked at home amid rising tensions in the east African nation over its beleaguered lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer community. Sexual Minorities Uganda, a local advocacy group, said Wasswa’s death was the fourth LGBTQ-related murder there …

Shocking as 80 years old prophetess caught “killing kids” for rituals in a new viral video. A viral video circulating in the state showed a huge outcry by members of the public when men of the Anambra State police command raided the residence of the women. The video also showed …

I have a simple approach to and position on the vexed issue of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer or questioning (LGBTQ) and the ever-expanding list of sex and gender identity. I like to personalise it. If my son came to tell me that he is converting his anus into …

An upsurge of malaria and diarrhoea cases has been reported in several villages in the Greater Pibor Administrative Area (GPAA), with hard-hit facilities reeling under a biting shortage of drugs. Dr. Abdelrobu Mohammed, Director of the Primary Health Care Department in the area, told Radio Tamazuj on Monday that they …

The U.N. children’s fund UNICEF said on Tuesday it had sent an initial 100,000 syringes for COVID-19 vaccines to the Maldives in preparation for first deliveries of Pfizer and AstraZeneca shots under the COVAX vaccine-sharing plan. The syringes, as well as 1,000 safety boxes for vaccine storage, are expected to arrive in …

Former president Jacob Zuma’s foundation on Sunday night took another dig at the state, questioning whether it would ever be ready to go ahead with the corruption case against him. This after the Jacob G Zuma Foundation complained of another “postponement” in the case — a claim that the National …

Six South Sudanese children were killed and eleven others injured while playing with an explosive device in Maji II Refugee Settlement in Uganda’s Adjumani district. According to Wilson Manyok, the chairperson of South Sudanese Refugees in Northern Uganda, Wednesday’s explosion killed six children on the spot and two others succumbed …

A 30-year-old nurse of a medical centre in Kitwe has told a magistrate’s court how her senior workmate allegedly raped her from behind while on duty. She narrated before Magistrate Chongo Musonda that her workmate grabbed her hand and twisted it before raping her from behind. According to the nurse …