AFRICA

Protesters in Turffontein, Johannesburg, looted shops as they demonstrated in the area on Monday morning. The protesters targeted shops they believed to be owned by foreign nationals. Police were on the scene but residents in the area outnumbered them. The protesters burnt tyres in the streets and forced passengers out …

The Nigerian Army authorities have arrested one officer and nine soldiers in connection with the killing of five officers of the IGP Intelligence Response Team (IRT), on August 6, in Taraba State Daily Sun, can authoritatively report. This is just as our correspondent gathered that the arrested officers risk death …

Three people were killed while some passengers were whisked away into the bush by suspected kidnappers on the Lokoja-Abuja express road on Sunday evening. It was reported that the suspected kidnappers waylaid a 14-seater bus fully loaded with passengers and was heading to Abuja before the unfortunate incident. It was …

The Deputy Governor of Ondo State, Hon. Agboola Ajayi has been accused of altering his academic records. According to a series of posts on Twitter as well as some purported documents on social media, it was alleged that while serving as Chairman of Ese-Odo Local Government Area of Ondo State, …

The annual Oro cultural festival held in Ikorodu, Lagos State, has turned bloody, as suspected members of Aiye and Eiye cult gangs were embroiled in a clash. Five members of the secret cult groups died in the fight, while several others sustained bullet and machete wounds. The gangs were said …

The Lagos State Police Command has arrested an armed robbery suspect, Wasiu Kamarudeen, 19, of No. 8, Olaniyi St., Iyalode, Ilogbo in Badagry and recovered one locally-made short gun with one live-cartridge from him. This is contained in a press statement signed by the Police Public Relations Officer ( PRO), …

Uganda’s health ministry has confirmed a new Ebola case in the western town of Kasese. A girl of nine who had travelled from the neighbouring Democratic Republic of Congo was found to have a fever during screening for Ebola at the Mpondwe border crossing. A blood sample that was sent …

The numbers of people who have died in the current Ebola outbreak in the east of the Democratic Republic of Congo has reached the 2,000 mark, government figures show. The health authorities have struggled to contain the spread of the virus. On Thursday, neighbouring Uganda confirmed that a nine-year-old girl …

Adam Catzavelos, the South African man who filmed himself while on holiday on a beach in Greece, saying it was “heaven on earth” as there were no black people present, has reached a settlement with the human rights commission. In the video, widely shared on social media, he used a …

The chairman of the Kufai Adamu local government, Shiban Tikari, has confirmed the killing of a Catholic priest, barely 24 hours after gunmen raided villages in Taraba. Tikari, who identified the deceased as Reverend Father David Tanko, also confirmed that the gunmen set him and his car ablaze. Rev. Father …