AFRICA

Two security guards were shot dead in Philippi East, Cape Town, on Monday afternoon while escorting Eskom technicians out  of the area. The technicians were in the area attending to an electricity supply fault. “The security guards were employed by VusaIsizwe Security and were contracted to Eskom to provide armed …

A Boko Haram commander, Abu Imrana has been killed in an exchange of gunfights with Nigerian soldiers in Borno state. Vanguard had reported how over 150 people were killed in attacks across Monguno and Gubio local government areas of Borno last week. Recently, Chief of Army Staff, General Tukur Buratai …

  A woman in Kenya’s eastern town on Makueni has been hospitalised after being attacked by her ex-husband with a machete, local media report quoting medical sources. The doctors had to amputate Purity Muthoki’s hands after she sustained 31 deep cuts. Her ex-husband, Boniface Mutua, was at her home and …

Two people died, one on impact, after a car collided with an empty fuel truck on Houwhoek Pass, near Grabouw, in the Western Cape at the weekend. In a video of the accident shared on social media, a man can be seen getting out of a car which had run …

A woman in Kenya’s eastern town on Makueni has been hospitalised after being attacked by her ex-husband with a machete, local media report quoting medical sources. The doctors had to amputate Purity Muthoki’s hands after she sustained 31 deep cuts. Her ex-husband, Boniface Mutua, was at her home and neighbours …

South Africa’s president says it has been a “dark and shameful week” for his country following a surge in violence against women. Cyril Ramaphosa’s remarks come after several femicides, including one woman who was eight months pregnant and found stabbed and hanging from a tree. He noted they had occurred …

One of the main doctors’ unions in Nigeria says its members will go ahead with a strike on Monday over poor pay and a lack of personal protective equipment for health workers. The Association of Resident Doctors says they will stop providing all services including emergency care and coronavirus treatment. …

There have been 57 more Covid-19 deaths, and 4 300 new infections, the Ministry of Health says. This has taken the total number of cases to 70 038. The death toll now sits at 1 480. The Western Cape makes up about 60% of the total number of cases, with …

Gauteng Police are on the hunt for a suspect after a woman was murdered in what is believed to be another incident of the gender-based violence that continues to rock the country. The woman was allegedly stabbed and left in an outside room on Sunday morning in Eersterust, Tshwane. “Preliminary …

Islamic militants killed at least 20 soldiers and more than 40 civilians and injured hundreds in twin attacks in northeast Nigeria’s Borno state on Saturday, residents and a civilian task force fighter said. The attacks, in the Monguno and Nganzai local government areas, came just days after militants killed at …