AFRICA

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 …

A video of a lion eating grass in a Nigerian zoo is making rounds online.   A TikTok user shared the video with the caption “Nigeria’s economy will make a lion eat grass”. Watch the video below……………………   View this post on Instagram A post shared by Lindaikejiblog (@lindaikejiblogofficial)  

[tps_header][/tps_header]   A Max Air aircraft crash-landed at the Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport, NAIA, Abuja after the tyre reportedly bursts into flames today, May 7.   According to reports, the aircraft had arrived from Yola, Adamawa State when the incident happened.   A former President of the Nigeria Medical Association, …

Kenyan President William Ruto on Friday appointed a commission of inquiry into the deaths of more than 100 people believed to have starved themselves to death, while a court ordered that the cult leader remain in prison. The commission of inquiry, announced on Friday by presidential spokesman Hussein Mohamed, will …

It has been an enlightening journey for popular African American actor and activist, Samuel L. Jackson, since he discovered his ancestors were from the Central African Republic nation of Gabon. It’s been a soul-searching moment for Jackson since he found his roots. He has since met with the President of …

A prominent Nigerian senator who was found guilty in March of trafficking a man to Britain to harvest one of his kidneys has been sentenced to nine years and eight months in prison by the London’s Old Bailey court, a BBC.com report has said. His wife, Beatrice Ekweremadu was jailed …

Pope Francis has sacked a Rwandan-born man from the priesthood after it emerged that he has legally acknowledged being a father of a 10-year-old boy Wenceslas Munyeshyaka, 64, was serving as a clergyman in northern France for almost three decades prior to his dismissal. According to a BBC.com report, a …