AFRICA

About 3,000 undertakers have gone on strike in South Africa demanding better pay and working conditions. They are refusing to collect bodies from homes and hospitals – and to hold burials. Their union is calling for the government to set up a coronavirus relief fund. The cost of burials and …

Ugandan businessman, Mathew Kanyamunyu, on Saturday afternoon, September 12, 2020, admitted to killing a child rights activist, Kenneth Akena Watson and agreed to pay 10 cows and three goats reparation for the offence. Born on November 29, 1983, in Gandyang town, Kitgum district, the late Watson, pictured above was working with ACODEV …

Ten pupils have died in a fire in a school dormitory in north-western Tanzania’s Kagera region. Seven other pupils who sustained serious injuries have been hospitalised. The dormitory was housing boys aged six to 10 years. Police have started investigations and the cause of the fire is yet to be …

The rival government in eastern Libya has submitted its resignation after a number of protests over deteriorating living conditions and corruption. At the weekend demonstrators in the city of Benghazi set fire to strongman Gen Khalifa Haftar’s headquarters. They also clashed in his stronghold of Al-Maj for the first time. …

Unknown gunmen invaded a burial in Finiapiri-ama village at Banigo Isile-Ogono community in Bonny Local Government Area, Rivers State, on Saturday, September 12, and abducted many including politicians.   It was gathered that the incident which happened at the burial ceremony of a prominent citizen, Amaopusenibo K.M Banigo, left several …

A 30-year-old man was arrested in Hammanskraal, north of Pretoria, after he allegedly stabbed his girlfriend to death, local South African police said on Sunday. Police spokesperson Capt Kay Makhubele said the man stabbed his 23-year-old girlfriend to death with a knife in an alleged “rage of jealousy”. The incident …

Actress Thandeka Mdeliswa has died two days after being shot in her own home. Cops are hunting for the gunman after the 27-year-old TV star was killed in what officers described as a “heinous” crime of gender violence. South African star Mdeliswa was shot in the town of Evander in …

A group of migrants rescued by a Danish tanker in the Mediterranean have been allowed to land in Italy after more than 40 days at sea. The 27 people – including one pregnant woman – set off from Libya on 2 August. Danish tanker the Maersk Etienne picked them up …

Six refugees from South Sudan have been killed and four others injured in a resettlement camp in Madi Okollo, north-western Uganda. A police spokeswoman for the West Nile region, Josephine Angucia, said 13 villagers had been arrested in connection to the deaths on Friday. The killings happened after a number …

In our series of letters from African journalists, Ghanaian writer Elizabeth Ohene looks at the fraught relationship between Ghana and Nigeria, which underlies the current tensions over the closure of some Nigerian-owned shops in Ghana. We see them as too loud, and abrasive and chaotic and we believe they think …