AFRICA

South African politicians, including President Cyril Ramaphosa, have spoken out on the result of the US elections on Saturday 7 November 2020. Various US networks declared Joe Biden the next President of the United States and his running mate Kamala Harris the next vice president. “America, I’m honoured that you have chosen …

In our series of letters from African writers, Nigerian journalist and novelist Adaobi Tricia Nwaubani looks at why the Nigerian authorities are worried about social media and its impact in the era of #EndSars protests. Over the past week, some Nigerian state governors and public officials have called for some …

The Equal Opportunities Commission is recommending for the age of the beneficiaries of the Social Assistance Grant for Empowerment (SAGE) to be lowered from the current 80 years to 60. While speaking to Daily Monitor, yesterday Ms Harriet Nalukenge, the acting commissioner legal and investigations, said the recommendation was reached …

Thursday morning saw a dark cloud of tragedy hang over the Regional Hospital of Kumba, Cameroon as many gathered to mourn seven students shot in cold blood by armed men at the College St Mother Francisca a week ago. This funeral comes only 24 hours after an attack on a …

On 25 September 2020, gunmen raided police stations in Mepe and Aveyime, two little-known towns in the Volta region of Ghana. The armed men were reported to belong to the Western Togoland Restoration Front. This is one of two or more separatist groups campaigning for the creation of a new …

A notorious serial rapist, Malibongwe Ncokolo, has been sentenced to seven life terms and 300 years imprisonment by the Bisho High Court in Eastern Cape, South Africa. He was sentenced on Friday, November 6. The 44-year-old Ncokolo, whose arrest on June 7, 2017, signalled an end of reign of terror …

A 21-year-old bricklayer, Biodun Owolabi, has been arrested for killing his apprentice for money rituals. Mr Owolabi is alleged to have killed the 13-year-old secondary school boy, Quadri Olalekan, with the help of his accomplices, 20-year-old Festus Simon. The incident happened on Saturday, October 31, 2020, after they tricked the …

A North West man has been sentenced to life imprisonment for kidnapping, raping and hanging his former girlfriend in 2018. The Madikwe Regional Court found Mpho Mkhibane Nkwe, 33, guilty of kidnapping, rape and the contravention of a protection order. The court heard that Nkwe kidnapped, assaulted and raped his former …

An abusive husband has been accused of smashing his wife’s car after she dumped him in South Africa. An eyewitness who alleged that she was riding with the man’s estranged wife, said he smashed her car and drove off. She further revealed that after they visited the police station, they …

A woman has opened up to the Anambra Judicial panel on Police brutality on how officers of the defunct Special Anti-robbery Squad, SARS killed her husband and asked her to marry another one.   SARS killed my husband, told me to marry another – Woman narrates The woman identified as …