AFRICA

Acclaimed Zimbabwean filmmaker and novelist Tsitsi Dangarembga has been acquitted by the country’s High Court of staging an anti-government protest in 2020, for which she had initially received a six-month suspended jail sentence and a fine. “I can confirm that she has been acquitted,” her lawyer Harrison Nkomo said after …

Justice Shawomi Bokkos of an area court in Jos, Plateau state, on Monday, May 8, sentenced a 25-year-old man identified as Emmanuel Christopher, to one-month in jail, for stealing a sheep.     The police prosecutor, Insp Ibrahim Gokwat, told the court that the case was reported at the Anglo-Jos …

Canadian rapper, Aubrey Drake Graham, popularly known as Drake has sparked reactions among his Nigerian fans online after he disclosed the results of his ancestry.   The rapper, 36, shared a screenshot on his Insta-story, where he revealed that the DNA ancestry tests his father recently took, showed that he …

Four members of a gang, including three Saudis and one Nigerian national have been arrested in Saudi Arabia over alleged involvement in the smuggling and sale of cocaine.   According to a report by Saudi Gazette on Monday, May 8, 2023, about 2.2 kilograms of cocaine were seized from the suspects.   …

A 20-year-old woman, Fatima, has dragged her father to a Shari’a Court in Kaduna for allegedly forcing her to marry a stranger.   Fatima told the court that she has someone she loves and her father, Aliyu Muhammad has reportedly threatened to take her to the village and marry her …

A number of political associations in Mali have joined forces to oppose the military government’s decision to hold a referendum on a new constitution on June 18. The referendum, announced on Friday, is a milestone on the country’s path towards elections promised for February after a coup three years earlier. …

At least 400 people have died after floods and landslides hit the Democratic Republic of Congo’s South Kivu province last week, officials told CNN. Heavy rainfall through last week caused rivers to overflow and created mudslides that devastated the villages of Bushushu and Nyamukubi in South Kivu’s Kalehe territory, provincial …

Amapiano producer and club DJ Themba Sonnyboy Sekowe, better known as DJ Maphorisa, was caught on the wrong side of the law on Sunday afternoon when he was arrested for allegedly assaulting his girlfriend Thuli Phongolo. The incident of their assault was revealed in a statement deposed by Phongolo at …

Mali’s ruling government has announced that a long-awaited referendum on a new constitution would be held in the West African nation on June 18. The referendum is a major milestone on the road to elections promised for February 2024, after a coup in May 2021. Government spokesperson Colonel Abdoulaye Maiga …

Nigerians on Twitter took on the organizers of Italy’s top flight league, the Serie A, dethroning their choice of best player for league winners, Napoli. Serie A posted a photo of Napoli ace and Argentine giant Maradona placing a crown on the head of striker Khvicha Kvaratskhelia, a sign that …