AFRICA

Togo’s President Faure Gnassingbé was sworn for a fourth term on Sunday at a subdued ceremony in the capital, Lome. Mr. Gnassingbé won re-election in February but opposition leader Agbéyomé Kodjo has rejected the results. The president’s office denies allegations of widespread fraud. He has led Togo’s population of eight …

The air is cleaner with a third of the global population on lockdown, but South Africans who use solid fuel to cook and heat their homes could face a higher Covid-19 death rate. Solid fuels, including charcoal and wood, produce high levels of solid and liquid particles, and a Harvard …

The number of confirmed COVID-19 cases in South Africa is now 6 783, with a further eight COVID-19 related deaths. This is an increase of 447 cases from Saturday’s 6 336 COVID-19 cases. The eight reported deaths are from: Western Cape 2, Eastern Cape 4 and Gauteng 2. This brings the …

The week-old marriage of a 15-year-old boy named Abraham Samuel Onuoha, and his 22-year -old lover, Anurika John has left Nigerians in a state of awe. The couple got married in Akeze, Ebonyi State, Nigeria after a simple wedding with both families in attendance. OperaNewsHub, a news portal which chanced …

South Africa’s finance deputy minister was quoted in a leading newspaper on Sunday as urging the central bank to temporarily create money to fund the government response to the COVID-19pandemic and its economic fallout. In an interview with the Sunday Times, David Masondo called on the government to avert a 1930s-style …

“We were five in number and we slept with the girl before we killed her last. We killed the boy first, killed the second and the girl last. We used gun brought by Bright”. With this statement, one of the suspected abductors of three undergraduates of University of Port Harcourt, …

The Emir of Rano, in Kano State of Nigeria, Alhaji Tafida Abubakar Ila II, has been reported dead According to Nigerian media report, he died on Saturday at a hospital in Kano at the age of 74. The Turakin Rano and House of Representatives Member of Rano, Kibiya and Bunkure, …

South Africa has a total of 6 336 confirmed COVID-19 cases, with seven new deaths and 2 549 recoveries. “The total number of tests conducted to date is 230 686, of which 13 164 were done in the last 24 hours. This is the highest number of tests done in a …

Twenty-three Burkinabes who entered Ghana through unapproved routes at Nandom in the Upper West Region were arrested and repatriated by personnel of the Ghana Immigration Service (GIS), on Wednesday. The migrants were arrested at the Babile Checkpoint by the GIS personnel when the buses on which they were travelling were …

A Nigerian man, yet to be identified, has been exposed for how he tortured his two children over their mother’s sins in Okigwe, Imo State. It is not clear what offences the mother had committed but the man has broken the wrist bones of the children with hammer. The suspect …