AFRICA

German Cabinet ministers Hubertus Heil and Sonja Schulze witnessed firsthand the masses of used clothes that are shipped to West Africa from industrialized nations each week, when they visited one of the world’s largest secondhand markets in Ghana. The mountains of second-hand clothes and textile scraps that arrive in the …

Eric Holder Jr., the man convicted of shooting rapper Nipsey Hussle to death, has been sentenced to 60 years to life in prison. Holder was found guilty of first-degree murder last July for killing Hussle outside the latter’s South Los Angeles clothing store in 2019. Superior Court Judge H. Clay …

German Cabinet ministers Hubertus Heil and Sonja Schulze witnessed firsthand the masses of used clothes that are shipped to West Africa from industrialized nations each week, when they visited one of the world’s largest secondhand markets in Ghana. The mountains of second-hand clothes and textile scraps that arrive in the …

Eskom CEO Andre de Ruyter has left Eskom after a “special board meeting” on Wednesday night. In a statement, Eskom said it and De Ruyter had reached a “mutual agreement” about his early departure. De Ruyter had tendered his resignation in December 2022 and was scheduled to serve his notice until the …

The Giyani Specialised Commercial Crimes Court in Limpopo sentenced two former South African Social Security Agency (Sassa) officials on Tuesday to an effective five years in prison for disability grant fraud. Solani Agnes Baloyi, 56, and Jacob Manamela, 64, committed the fraud in January 2015 while working at the Sassa …

Operatives of the Rapid Response Squad (RRS) have arrested two suspects, Daniel Ojoh, 20, and 27-year-old Kudus Ahmed, with two locally made guns and charms. Spokesperson of the Lagos State Police Command, SP Benjamin Hundeyin, who made this known in a statement on Wednesday, February22, said the suspects were arrested …

A couple have angered beachgoers after they were seen publicly having sex in the sand. A bizarre video shows the frisky couple frolicking on Henley Beach in Adelaide, Australia. They were eventually confronted by a local who was upset at their risque display taking place near children. When approached by …

Three people have died after a 6.4-magnitude earthquake struck southern Turkey on Monday, weeks after a deadly quake devastated the region. More than 680 people have been injured in Turkey and Syria. Turkey’s disaster and emergency agency Afad said the tremor occurred at 20:04 local time (17:04 GMT), followed by …

A son of Zimbabwe’s former President Robert Mugabe is being held by police in the capital, Harare, on allegations of being involved in the destruction of cars during a party over the weekend, the government-owned Herald newspaper reports. Robert Mugabe Junior is likely to be charged with malicious damage to …

A man, his girlfriend and her son were stoned to death after the body of an eight-year-old missing girl, Nomsa Sambo, was found inside a pit toilet in South Africa.   Police spokesperson, Brig Selvy Mohlala, said the incident happened in the early hours of Saturday, February 18, 2023, in Senotlelo …