AFRICA

He said this at his headquarters in Bwizibwera where he was handing over various projects to people living in Mbarara District. The deputy commander of Uganda’s land forces, Major General Francis Takirwa, has said that homosexuality in the country is unnatural, shameful and not okay. He also told people working …

The island nation of Mauritius is Africa’s only fully democratic country according to the 2022 Democracy Index, an annual report by the Economic Intelligence Unit (EIU). The country ranked ahead of France, Spain and South Korea on the list of full democracies which numbered 24 across the world. The Democracy …

A 24-year-old woman suspected to have set ablaze an apartment in Kampala, Uganda, killing two people has been charged in court and remanded to prison. Susan Kaitesi was arraigned before Nabweru Chief Magistrate?s Court and charged with two counts of murder and another count of arson. She?s accused of burning …

To start with, election candidacy ought not to be an impromptu decision. For inspiration, we may have to turn to Western civilization for succour. After all, our social structures and institutions are patterned after theirs. In the United Kingdom, as in other saner climes, young men and women who participate …

At least 34 people have been killed in fighting in Somalia’s northern breakaway region of Somaliland, two doctors at a public hospital in the town of Laascaanood say. Fighting broke out in eastern Somaliland on Monday morning between forces from the region, which declared its independence in 1991, and fighters …

The remains of late Burkina Faso President Thomas Sankara are to be buried where a memorial to him already stands, but his family is boycotting the ceremony and says the site is “inadequate for all the burden it contains”. “We believed and continue to believe that it is fundamental that a space …

Burkina Faso’s transition government has announced that the remains of President Thomas Sankara and his 12 companions assassinated on 15 October 1987 will be reburied later this month, at the Thomas Sankara Memorial in the capital, Ouagadougou. This decision is the result of consultations within the Armed Forces, the families …

Laison Chitumbwi, 42, has been taken into custody on suspicion of raping his mentally ill neighbor. According to reports, the accused sneaks into the mad woman’s house whenever she is alone and rapes her. The accused’s arrest was confirmed by Investigator Luckmore Chakanza of the Harare Police Department, and the …

A 46-year-old man, Hassan Azeez has been arrested by men of Ogun State Police Command, for pouring petrol on his wife and setting her ablaze. The command spokesman, Abimbola Oyeyemi, in a statement issued in Abeokuta yesterday, said the suspect was arrested following a report lodged at Ibogun divisional headquarters …

The reported smoking contest between legendary singers, Fela Anikulapo Kuti and Rexton Rawlston Fernando Gordon who is also known as Shaba Ranks has generated some reactions on social media. It was reported that in 1992 when Shabba Ranks came to Nigeria to perform at a concert, he decided to visit …