AFRICA

From rock art in southern Africa to pyramids along the River Nile, humans have been leaving their mark across the continent for millennia. But extreme weather events, the rise in sea levels and other challenges associated with the changing climate are threatening to destroy invaluable cultural landmarks, a recent study …

The US wants Kenya to support Israel’s political and commercial interests, or forget a free trade deal (FTA) with the world’s biggest economy. This is one of a raft of conditions set in the ongoing FTA negotiations between Nairobi and Washington. The US has indicated in its objectives seen by …

A woman fell out of a moving car on the M25 while leaning out of the window to film a video for Snapchat. She fell from the car into a “live lane” between junction six and the Clacket Lane Services at 01:30 BST, Surrey Police traffic officers tweeted. The woman …

Residents launched a manhunt to find a man they believed had been spotted with a child reported missing from a school in Orange Farm, south of Johannesburg, on Tuesday. The child went missing from Madume Primary School at around noon. Community members surrounded a wetland where they believed the man …

A female officer implicated in the fatal shooting of a 16-year-old Eldorado Park teenager threw a bombshell in the Protea magistrate’s court on Tuesday when she alleged she was given an instruction to shoot the boy as way of “scaring him off”. In affidavit read in court, Const Caylene Whiteboy …

Former president Jacob Zuma’s supporters in Gauteng believe their man is being unfairly targeted by the state capture inquiry’s chairperson, deputy chief justice Raymond Zondo. This after Zondo on Monday said he will no longer negotiate appearance dates with Zuma, who has been avoiding appearing before the inquiry. Zuma was billed …

An angry mob in Nigeria’s Calabar of Cross River State has arrested and lynched two teenage armed robbers for robbing a supermarket. Reports say that the two boys tried to rob a Supermarket named Sunnytex at around 9.00 pm on Monday night but unfortunately failed and were arrested by the …

It’s sunset at dawn for 20-year-old Toluwalase Kembi, a polytechnic student awaiting industrial training. A visit to her friend sadly led to her death allegedly by boyfriend who claimed he was paid to carry out the act. The 33-year-old suspect, Owolabi Yusuf, also known as alfa, is now cooling his …

15 cows were on Saturday evening, struck to death by lightning at Ikogosi in Ekiti West Local Government Area of Ekiti State.   It was gathered that the cattle were killed at the Ikogosi Warm Spring site, a popular  tourism and recreational centre where warm and cold streams meet along Ipole-Ekiti.   …

A 300 Level student of the University of Calabar, Umo Aniekpeno, was reportedly burnt to death by a generator explosion in Calabar, Cross River State capital.   It was gathered that the student of the Department of Human Anatomy, Faculty of Basics Medical Sciences, died after the generator exploded at her …