AFRICA

A previously unknown work by Ben Enwonwu, Nigeria’s most celebrated 20th Century visual artist, is up for auction in an online sale organised by Sotheby’s. The Court of the Oba of Benin, thought to have been painted in the 1940s, is described as a “masterpiece” by the auctioneers, but was …

A man who killed nine women in a case that caused outrage in Nigeria has been sentenced to death in the southern city of Port Harcourt. Prosecutors say 40-year-old Gracious David-West strangled his victims in hotel rooms across Nigeria between July and September 2019. Justice Adolphus Enebeli said he is …

Lirandzu Themba, a spokeswoman for South Africa’s Ministry of Police has reported that callers, some of whom identified as disgruntled farmers in the town of Senekal, threatened and racially abused her following the murder of a farm manager in the town last week. The Police ministry had criticized a violent …

A woman was allegedly shot in the mouth by a mobile police officer in Lagos today, October 8.   According to Twitter user @abba_kamselem, the incident happened at Salvation busstop, Opebi in Lagos. Spokesperson of the state police command, Muyiwa Adejobi, couldn’t immediately confirm the incident. He however, promised to revert …

The Libyan authorities have arrested three suspects for killing a man by setting him on fire, the interior ministry has said. The interior ministry is quoted as saying that the three Libyans, all in their 30s, stormed a Tripoli factory where African migrants were working, detained one of the workers, …

One person has been killed and another wounded after they were shot in Brackenfell on Tuesday. According to police, the shooting happened on Tuesday at 12:50 on the corner of Frans Conradie and Kenwill Drive in Brackenfell. Police spokesperson Colonel Andrè Traut said two people have been arrested. The details …

Police in Gauteng are investigating a murder after a motorist was shot and killed in his vehicle in Braamfontein, Johannesburg, on Tuesday morning. According to police spokesperson Brigadier Mathapelo Peters, officers responded to the scene on Rissik and Smith streets around 10:00, following reports. On arrival, the body of an …

KwaZulu-Natal police are investigating the murder of an 11-year-old girl who was found with stab wounds in her bedroom in Madadeni. According to the police, Olwethu Mdlalose’s body was found on 1 October in Section 5 Madadeni. “Police found the body of Owethu Mdlalose with multiple stab wounds on her …

A Zimbabwean soldier, identified as Tendai Saunyama Kandima, has bagged a 12-year-jail sentence after bragging about being the mastermind behind the White City bombing in Bulawayo in 2018. The White City bombing, which is also called the Bulawayo bombing, occurred on June 23, 2018, a few weeks before July 2018 harmonized …

The number of people hit by seasonal flooding in East Africa has increased more than five fold in four years, according to UN figures. Nearly six million people have been affected this year with 1.5 million of them forced from their homes. Parts of the region are recording the heaviest …