AFRICA

A yet-to-be-identified man was killed in a road accident that occurred on the Benin-Ore Expressway in the Odigbo Local Government Area of Ondo State on Friday. The accident was said to have involved a Nissan Vanette Bus with registration number REL882XA and a DAF Truck with number LAR 261XV. It …

A woman and a man were arrested in Cape Town on Thursday for the murder of a man who was allegedly stabbed to death during a fight over money. Police spokesperson Captain Adriana Chandler said staff at the Dunoon clinic in Table View reported that a man with stab wounds …

A Grade nine school pupil has died and a three-year-old has been left injured after they were hit by a car on the N2 south bound near Westwood Mall in Durban. A grade nine pupil has died and a three-year-old has been left injured after they were hit by a …

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 …