AFRICA

Three giraffes have been electrocuted in Kenya’s Soysambu Conservancy, bringing the number that has been killed so far to 11. On Friday morning, two males of Roths’ child species were electrocuted. On Saturday, one more died at the same point where the first two died. On Sunday, a source said …

The Nigerian Air Force on Sunday said seven passengers onboard a Beechcraft KingAir B350i aircraft died when the jet crashed in Abuja. The jet en route Minna in Niger State crashed close to the runway of the Abuja airport after reporting engine failure. In a statement, NAF Director of Public …

A man who caught his girlfriend out having lunch with another man confronted her then humiliated her by collecting the wig and footwear he bought for her.   Despite efforts from the woman to reason with him and hold on to the wig and slippers, the man snatched them from her.   …

Nigeria has been hit with a traffic incident this morning following an aircraft accident. A military aircraft has crashed near the Nnamdi Azikiwe International Abuja Airport this morning leaving all people onboard dead. Minister of Aviation of the Federal Republic of Nigeria Hadi Sirika confirmed the traffic incident in a …

Swaziland’s King Mswati III said he had recovered from COVID-19 after Taiwan President Tsai Ing-wen sent antiviral medication to help him. The small southern African country now called eSwatini, an absolute monarchy is Taiwan’s only remaining diplomatic ally on the continent, and Taipei has provided large amounts of economic and …

Two from north Africa and three in Sub-Saharan Africa. Five countries in all have given authorization for the role out of Russia’s Sputnik V coronavirus vaccines. A February 20, 2021 statement from the Russian Direct Investment Fund (RDIF), the country’s sovereign wealth fund announced that Sputnik V had been granted …

Nigerian security forces on Thursday said they were tracking the armed gang that kidnapped more than 40 people from a school a day earlier, as families and a survivor described how students fled gunfire during the early morning attack. The kidnapping in Kagara in central Niger state was the latest …

Libyan strongman Muammar Gaddafi was ousted and killed in the 2011 uprising, but several of his family members survived. A decade on, what has happened to them? Three of Gaddafi’s seven sons died in the uprising, including Mutassim, who was killed by rebels in the dictator’s hometown of Sirte on …

A man has been sentenced to 20 years in jail for the brutal murder of a pregnant woman whose death galvanised protests in South Africa and prompted a speech by the president. The body of 28-year-old Tshegofatso Pule was found hanging from a tree last June, with multiple stab wounds. …

The pastor who canceled a wedding because the couple were few minutes late to church has died on the same date his wife died. Pastor Essa Ogorry of Fulfilling Word Foundation Church, Trans Amadi, Port Harcourt, Rivers State, died on Tuesday, February 16, 2021. His wife, Tonyemieba Essa-Ogorry, also died …