Later this year, Egyptian engineering firm Arab Contractors is expected to complete the construction of the Julius Nyerere dam on the Rufiji River. Once completed, the $3 billion dam could be Africa’s fourth-biggest by power production, producing up to 5920GWH of power annually, enabling Tanzania to close the gap between …

A 28-year-old policeman died by suicide after hanging himself on a rope on Wednesday at the Hai Jebel residential area of Wau town in Western Bahr el Ghazal State of South Sudan. Family members said the late Arop Peter Kuol had started exhibiting signs of mental and physical distress. His …

A five-year-old Moroccan boy who was trapped in a well for four days has died, despite painstaking efforts to rescue him. A royal statement announced his death soon after his removal from the well. The bid to free the boy, Rayan Oram, had gripped the country, with hundreds of people …

Members of the Komfo Anokye Doctors’ Association (KADA) are returning to work barely 24 hours after activating their intended strike action. The Association had proceeded on strike after citing failure on the part of management and government to provide a “clear concise payment schedule” on their financial demands. The doctors …

A first-year student at Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST) is believed to be dead after a private vehicle struck a number of students in Ayeduase, close to the KNUST campus. According to witnesses, the female student was unresponsive following the incident involving the black saloon car with …

Moroccan emergency crews found a five-year-old boy dead at the bottom of a well late Saturday in a tragic end to a painstaking five-day rescue operation that gripped the nation and beyond. “Following the tragic accident which cost the life of the child Rayan Oram, His Majesty King Mohammed VI …

Just after 6pm on Saturday, as a marathon day of deliberations behind closed doors at the Judicial Service Commission, Julius Malema tweeted “It’s a girl”. The prophetic statement was confirmed within 30 minutes when the commission announced that it recommends that President Cyril Ramaphosa appoint Supreme Court of Appeal President …

Two pupils died and six others were injured when a minibus taxi driver transporting schoolchildren lost control of the vehicle in Pietermaritzburg on Friday. On Saturday, the KwaZulu-Natal education department said according to preliminary reports the children were on their way home from school when the minibus taxi veered out …

Firefighters were called to a school in Cape Town on Saturday afternoon after a fire broke out in its storage room. The room at Chapel Street Primary in District 6 was gutted. “The storage room contained printing machines, garden equipment, old storage shelving and the gardener’s bedding and personal effects,” …

A cash-in-transit driver was shot dead during a heist in Diepkloof, Soweto, on Saturday morning. According to reports, the van was on its way to a filling station in Zone Six when a Mercedes-Benz rammed into the cash van, causing it to stop at the corner Chris Hani and Collinder …

The Court of Arbitration for Sport (Cas) has overturned the one-year ban handed out by Fifa to former Confederation of African Football (Caf) president Issa Hayatou. Football’s world governing body had ruled that the Cameroonian had breached its code of ethics when signing African football’s largest ever deal with French …

The Chief and people of Aidoosuazo in the northern part of Ellembelle District in the Western Region, have appealed to government and non-governmental organisations (NGOs) to construct new classroom blocks to replace their existing dilapidated Junior High School structure for effective teaching and learning. Aidoosuazo D/A Junior High School was …

The 33rd African Cup of Nations (AFCON) tournament, after witnessing an exciting journey so far, will see the Lions of Teranga, Senegal come up against eight times champions, the Pharaohs of Egypt in the finals on Sunday, February 6, at the Olembe Stadium, in Younde, Cameroon. Mane’s Senegal, thrashed Burkina …

Doctors at the Komfo Anokye Teaching Hospital (KATH) have laid down their tools with immediate effect over non-payment of their car maintenance allowance and 13th month allowance. The strike action follows the failure of the hospital’s management and the Ministry of Health to settle the allowances which were part of …

A swarm of bees interrupted an athletics day at a Western Cape school on Thursday. Three ambulances were sent to Liebenberg Primary in Malmesbury after a group of pupils were stung. “The Western Cape government’s health emergency medical services responded to an incident at Liebenberg Primary School in Malmesbury,” said …

Health Minister Joe Phaahla says he believes that as the country moves closer to winter, there will be an expectation of a fifth wave of Covid-19 infections. Phaahla briefed the media on Friday on government’s efforts to fight Covid-19 as well as the national vaccine rollout programme. The minister focused most of the …

The Chairman of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS), President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo, has said the recent trend of coup d’etats in the West African sub-region needs to be tackled before things become uncontrollable. The Ghanaian leader was speaking at the extraordinary summit of the Authority of …

Ghana Education Service (GES) has interdicted Mr. Imoro Eliasu a Junior High School teacher for sexually assaulting a third-year female student of the Dekpema M/A Junior High School in Tamale in the Northern region. Mr. Imoro who is currently being investigated for indecent assault by the DOVVSU has been granted …

A disgruntled retired Uganda People’s Defence Forces (UPDF) soldier has abandoned his children. Mr Zaidi Bafonza,54, number RA/ 118292, who retired in 1992 from UPDF a month ago, abandoned his eight children in a makeshift house in Bukolooto trading centre in Kayunga District on claims that he had failed to …

Ghana Education Service (GES) has interdicted Mr. Imoro Eliasu a Junior High School teacher for sexually assaulting a third year female student of the Dekpema M/A Junior High School in Tamale in the Northern region. Mr. Imoro who is currently being investigated for indecent Assault by the DOVVSU has been …

A striking resemblance between Professor George Wajackoyah and Ghanaian rapper Sarkodie has been spotted after pictures of the Kenyan presidential aspirant circulated on social media. Tweeps after closely analysing pictures of both persons have concluded that indeed they possess some similar physical features. Their faces particularly looked somewhat similar after the …

     Deputy Minister in the Presidency Thembi Siweya, left, visits homeless people at Johannnesburg's Park Station on 'Census Night', 2 February. – Source: GCIS/Flickr Statistics South Africa has embarked on its once-a-decade process to count all people in the country – including non-citizens. Census 2022 is arguably the most important …

The Economic Community of West African State (ECOWAS) says it will deploy troops to Guinea-Bissau to help stabilise the country after an attempted coup this week. This was contained in a communique after Thursday’s [3 February 2022] summit held in Accra, Ghana. The soldiers are expected to help prevent any …

  The University of Education, Winneba, has officially declared its readiness to immediately reinstate the former Vice-Chancellor of the institution, Professor Mawutor Avoke and five other former staff members in compliance with a High Court ruling. “We are complying with the orders of the Court. The court says they should …

Police arrested a man who they charged with murder and who was in possession of an AK-47. zim286, Getty Images A 30-year-old man accused of murdering three people in KwaZulu-Natal was arrested at a traditional healer’s house on Tuesday while he was allegedly attempting to “cleanse himself”. In a statement, police …

 University-of-Cape-Coast The University of Cape Coast (UCC) is likely to shut down next week after 21 days of non-academic activity due to the industrial action by the UniversityTeachers Association of Ghana (UTAG). This is in accordance with the Acts and Statutes governing the University, which states that the governing council …

  Dangote’s auto assembly company starts production Africa’s richest man has three partners in the DPAN project The plant has daily production capacity of 120 vehicles A company partly owned by Africa’s richest man, Aliko Dangote, has started assembling vehicles in Nigeria, Africa’s biggest economy. A recent report by the …

An embattled Kenyan man who has been arrested for stealing two bibles from a municipal supermarket has disclosed the reason behind his felonious action. Augustine Wanyonyi confessed that he developed suicidal thoughts after a fire engulfed his home in the Mukuru Njenga slum, hence he wanted to learn more about …

A man has survived a terrifying fight with a crocodile in a bid to save his fishing net in Mozambique. João Armando, 35, is now in hospital and at risk of having one of his hands amputated after his left arm was bitten by the giant reptile. His right leg …

  Nigeria faces environmental disaster Oil vessel with capacity of 2 million barrels explodes and sinks Local media reporting 10 deaths Reports from Nigeria indicates that a giant oil production ship with capacity to store up to 2 million barrels of oil has exploded off the county’s coast. According to …