AFRICA

Repentant bandits in Nigeria’s north-western state of Zamfara are being offered two cows for every AK-47 they surrender. It is an attempt to encourage them to give up a life of crime and live a normal life as responsible citizens, Zamfara Governor Bello Matawalle says. Motorcycle-riding armed bandits operating out …

ANC president Cyril Ramaphosa has lauded the Mandela family for publicly disclosing that Zindzi Mandela, the country’s ambassador to Denmark, lost her life due to complications related to Covid-19. Ramaphosa was paying tribute to the daughter of anti-apartheid stalwarts Nelson Mandela and Winnie Madikizela-Mandela, affectionately known as “Mazet”, during a …

Minister of Health Zweli Mkhize says there have been 13 172 new Covid-19 cases in the last 24 hours to take South Africa’s confirmed infections to a total of 324 221. Mkhize also said the country had recorded an additional 216 deaths, with the death toll now nearing the 5 000 mark. As …

The body of a five-year-old boy, who drowned in the Buffels River near Osizweni in Newcastle, has been found. According to ER24, it, together with a police search and rescue team, was called to the scene on Wednesday afternoon, but the search was called off due to bad light and …

Zindzi Mandela, the youngest daughter of South Africa’s first democratically elected president Nelson Mandela and anti-apartheid activist Winnie Madikizela-Mandela, had tested positive for Covid-19 on the day of her death. She died in a Johannesburg hospital earlier this week at the age of 59. Her son Zondwa Mandela told public …

More than 200 would-be immigrants from about 70 countries, who were winners in the United States government’s Diversity Visa lottery programme and residents in the United States, have filed a lawsuit against the Trump administration over the president’s recent executive order suspending immigration until next year. “The plaintiffs in the …

A man has been arrested for allegedly brutalizing his wife and his stepchildren in Anambra state.   According to people who claim to be close to the situation, the man identified as Iwuchukwu Anajemba Samson is in the habit of brutalizing his wife, Ifunanya Georgina Anajemba, and her kids at their home at …

Following the reinstatement of the alcohol ban and curfew, police will do random stop and search operations to ensure citizens adhere to the imposed regulations. “There will also be random stop and search operations to ensure that the prohibition on the trade of alcohol and tobacco is not being subverted. …

The statue of a slave trader that was torn down and thrown into a river last month in Bristol, England, was replaced overnight by a sculpture of a Black Lives Matter protester with a fist raised to the sky. The new statue of Jen Reid, who helped pull down the …

A 12-year-old girl has been rescued by authorities in Kenya after she was married off to two men in the span of one month. The girl’s father, in Narok County west of the capital Nairobi, forced her to marry a 51-year-old man. She escaped and then got married to a …