AFRICA

Ndambi Guebuza, the son of Mozambique’s former president Armando Guebuza will serve 12 years in jail after he was convicted in a $2 billion corruption case, a court ruled Wednesday. The scandal emanated from loans to three state-owned companies — Indicus, Ematum and Mam — meant to finance a fishing …

South Africa’s justice ministry has confirmed that the man who killed the South African anti-apartheid hero, Chris Hani, has been released on parole. Last month’s decision by the constitutional court to free Janusz Walus drew widespread criticism in South Africa. Mr Hani’s widow described it as diabolical. The hugely popular …

The Independent Corrupt Practices and other Related Offences Commission has arrested Singer Oladapo Oyebanji alias D’banj, according to a popular Nigeria news portal, PremiumTimes. He was arrested and detained Tuesday after ICPC operatives closed in on him, forcing him to surrender himself at the agency’s headquarters in Abuja. Premium Times …

A popular Imo state-based entertainer and politician, Chukwunonye Irounno, is dead. The deceased is believed to be the MC of Peter Obi’s campaign. Chukwunonye was also the Labour Party (LP) House of Assembly Candidate for Okigwe Constituency in the state. According to report, he died on Monday night in Owerri …

  A female university student has suffered under the hands of her attackers after she allegedly stole phone. According to reports gathered by filasconews.com, the female student called Yalewa Sunde of Kenya was invited into a room by his new Facebook lover. After doing what they wanted to do in …

Tanzania’s President Samia Suluhu Hassan has cancelled Independence Day celebrations scheduled for Friday and directed that the budget instead be used to build dormitories for children with special needs. The 61st Independence Day event was to cost $445,000, money that will be used to build eight dormitories in primary schools …

A Kenyan woman who was arraigned for stabbing her 74-year-old grandmother in the stomach after a quarrel over a piece of uncooked fish, has pleaded guilty to charges of causing grievous bodily harm.   The suspect identified as Binti Asma Juma, was arraigned before Mombasa Chief magistrate Martha Mutuku, on charges …

  A seven-year-old girl who was grabbing hold of a banana was bitten by a venomous snake.   The bothrops jararaca is Brazil’s fourth most dangerous snake with its venom capable of inflicting necrosis and limb loss,   At around 6.30am on Thursday, Dec. 1, a girl woke up at …

Archaeologists have shown evidence that land situated off the Zambezi River in Botswana is the ancestral home of modern humans. Modern humans are believed to have settled at this site for at least 70,000 years. The location was also the original home of early men in Africa some 200,000 years …

A 17-year-old man from Nandi County has been arrested for killing his father over family issues. The young man exchanged words with his 42-year-old father, which led to a fight between them and the father was beaten and killed by his son. The CID said the father and son fought …