AFRICA

A Nigerian university graduate has burned his university certificate after years of frustration due to unemployment. According to a post on Facebook, the frustrated guy Usman Abubarkar burnt all his certificates which includes his National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) University degree and WASSCE. According to him, his certificate has become useless …

Africa is losing nearly $89bn a year in illicit financial flows such as tax evasion and theft, amounting to more than it receives in development aid, a new UN study shows. The estimate, published on Monday in the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development’s (UNCTAD) 248-page report, is the …

The Nigerian military says 18 people have been left dead after an ambush on a government convoy in the north-east of the country. It said four soldiers, 10 police officers and four civilians were killed in the attack targeting Borno state officials on Friday. The Islamic State (IS) group said …

South Africa’s president has docked three months of the defence minister’s pay after she allowed governing party officials to fly on an air force plane to Zimbabwe with her on 9 September. Nosiviwe Mapisa-Nqakula was accused of misusing state resources for party political business. The defence force had argued she …

A man was denied bail in the Alexandria Magistrate’s Court after he severely beat an 18-year-old woman. The woman is in a critical condition in hospital. Sean Nicolas Hendricks, 25, was arrested on Thursday evening and faces a charge of attempted murder. A member of the public reported a suspicious noise …

Togolese Prime Minister Komi Selom Klassou and his government have resigned, in an expected political reshuffle delayed by the coronavirus pandemic. The move late on Friday was anticipated since President Faure Gnassingbe was re-elected in February for a fourth term in office after a constitutional change allowed him to run …

A motorist died in his Mercedes-Benz after colliding head-on with a minibus-taxi in Hammersdale, KwaZulu-Natal, on Friday night. Life Response spokesperson Leon Fourie said the collision took place at about 10.20pm. “On arrival paramedics found that a taxi had collided head-on with a Mercedes and then hit into another vehicle.” …

Mali’s new president has been sworn into office, five weeks after the overthrow of Ibrahim Boubacar Keïta. Former Defence Minister Bah Ndaw, 70, was picked by the coup leader, Colonel Assimi Goita, to head a transitional government until elections, which are expected in 18 months. Col Goita is vice-president. The …

Ethiopian Prime Minister, Abiy Ahmed, told the United Nations on Friday that his country has “no intention” of harming Sudan and Egypt with a giant hydropower dam on the Blue Nile that has caused a bitter water dispute between the three countries. Ethiopia, Egypt and Sudan failed to strike a …

Ten migrants from the Comoros, including a seven-year-old child, have drowned while trying to make their way to the island of Mayotte – a French territory in the Indian Ocean. Police said their bodies were found washed up on the beach, with their boat appearing to have capsized in a …