AFRICA

Malawi’s president has said that his country’s poverty is due to the misrule of his predecessors. “The poverty of our people is man-made, which means it can and must be unmade,” Lazarus Chakwera said in his first state of the nation address since being elected in June. He promised to …

Ghana’s Embassy in the United States of America (USA) has said in a statement that the embassy will reopen for consular services on Tuesday, September 8, 2020. The statement, however, said all applications and other activities will be done through online platforms to prevent the spread of the coronavirus. The …

When the mother of a nine-year-old girl applied pesticide to her hair, the aim was to kill lice, but it ended in tragedy. The chemical ended up killing the little girl. The mother of two followed the advice of her hairdresser and put the pesticide in the hairs of her …

Amid the bitter political battle for control of the ANC, President Cyril Ramaphosa this weekend said he will present himself before the party’s integrity commission to answer questions relating to the funding of his 2017 campaign to become party president. Ramaphosa made the undertaking on Friday in his opening address …

Tourism minister Mmamoloko Kubayi-Ngubane said international tourism might return sooner than expected as she encouraged South Africans to get out and explore their own country. Speaking in Cullinan, Gauteng, on Monday at the official launch of Tourism Month, an annual celebration highlighting the importance of domestic tourism, Kubayi-Ngubane  acknowledged the …

The coronavirus pandemic may have severely impacted the global economy with major setbacks, but that isn’t deterring musician and business mogul, Akon, from going ahead with his plans of constructing a futuristic pan-African city in his home country of Senegal. In an interview with the Associated Press on Monday, the Locked Up singer, who spent most …

The mother of an 11-year-old Kansas girl who was hit in the head with a pole by a 12-year-old White bully is alleging the attack was racially motivated. Speaking to WDAF-TV, Brandi Stewart, mother of victim Nevaeh Thomas, said her daughter was brutally attacked while she was out playing with …

Four women have been taken into custody for allegedly selling a newborn for N1,500,000. Officials of National Agency for the Prohibition of Trafficking in Persons (NAPTIP) arrested three of the women near Abuja, while the fourth suspect was apprehended in Owerri, the Imo State capital, where the baby’s teenage mother …

The Nigerian Union of Traders Association Ghana (NUTAG) has finally agreed its members are prepared to leave the Ghanaian local market if the government has asked them to do so. “The truth of the matter is, to the best of my knowledge, even the Ghanaian authority, our authority and ECOWAS …

A Zimbabwean man was subjected to reproachful assault after being caught red-handed trying to sleep with his boss’ wife.   While the visibly angry men proceeded to beat the randy man mercilessly,  the woman managed to flee from the scene leaving her ‘partner-in-crime’ to face the consequences alone. The man in the …