• Chelsea won their second Champions League trophy after beating Manchester City on May 29 • The London side currently has two African players in the persons of Senegal’s Mendy and Hakim Ziyech of Morocco • Chelsea also has two players with African parentage, Rudiger (Sierra Leone) and Kante (Mali) …

  An investigation by BBC Africa Eye has found new evidence that, in November 2020, Ugandan security forces fired live ammunition indiscriminately at people on the streets of the capital, Kampala, killing and injuring ordinary citizens including women and children. The killings happened in the run up to Uganda’s elections, …

  A former special adviser to former Nigerian president Goodluck Jonathan has been shot dead in the country’s southeast. Ahmed Ali Gulak, a special aide on Political Affairs to the Jonathan presidency was killed by unknown gunmen while returning to Abuja from Owerri, capital of Imo State. Gulak’s daughter announced …

More than 10,000 people have attended an anti-US rally in Ethiopia’s capital, Addis Ababa, to denounce President Joe Biden’s policy on the conflict in the country’s northern region of Tigray. Mr Biden had called for a ceasefire in the conflict, now in its seventh month. At the rally, people held …

President Cyril Ramaphosa announced that SA will move to adjusted level 2 during his address on May 30 2021. Image: Elmond Jiyane/GCIS SA will move to lockdown adjusted level 2 from Monday. President Cyril Ramaphosa on Saturday already confirmed that tighter restrictions were on the cards as SA enters its third …

The GMA addressed the media in Koforidua in the Eastern region The Ghana Medical Association (GMA) has warned that doctors in Public Health facilities across the country will be forced to reject laboratory results without authorization by qualified Laboratory physicians if the impasse in the laboratory space is not addressed immediately. Addressing …

  Football players are among the highest celebrity earners across the globe. Like musicians, film actors, and show hosts, footballers also make money on and off the field. Some have also established enterprises to not only make more money but to create employment for others. Forbes’s recent publication on the …

IMAGE COPYRIGHTGETTY IMAGESimage captionMr Macron told West African leaders that French soldiers will not be in the region “forever” President Emmanuel Macron has warned that France would withdraw troops from Mali if political instability there leads to greater Islamist radicalisation. It follows a second coup in nine months in the …

Following the swell in COVID-19 cases in India, Ghana has provided 150 oxygen concentrators to support hospitals in that country as a token to help India in its fight against the pandemic. The oxygen concentrators, which come with free after-sales and warranty support for a year, have been dispatched to …

Former South African President Jacob Zuma accepted more than 700 bribes over the course of a decade before he was president, including cash payments from French arms company Thales, prosecutors alleged on the first day of Zuma’s corruption trial on Wednesday. Zuma, the president of Africa’s most developed economy from …

  A high court in the South African capital of Pretoria has jailed a serial rapist and robber to on 988 years in prison. The National Prosecutor reported that Sello Abram Maponya bagged 988 years and 5 life terms; with the judge ruling further that sentences were not to run …

A suspected burglar who dressed like a ‘ghost’ to frighten his victims and rob them has been arrested. 27-year-old Norman Chagwiza from Zimbabwe’s Gutu district in the Masvingo Province would dress up in a ‘ghost suit’ and frighten his -victims who would run away leaving him to steal undisturbed. National …

• A number of sons of long serving African presidents are holding infleuntial positions in their father’s government • There is talk of these children possibly succeeding their fathers • Africa has a history of father – son transitions as happened in Gabon, DR Congo, Togo and most recently Chad …

Around 200 sex workers took to the streets of Johannesburg on Thursday to demand prostitution be decriminalized. “This is what I wear to work,” Dudu Dlamini, clad in hiking boots and a long dress, told AFP. “No high heels or short skirts.” “It requires expertise and skills you have no …

14-month-old Kenyan Ayah Lundt was born healthy and hitting all the developmental milestones as the months went by. Her parents noticed things were off from when she was nine months and now they are racing against the clock to raise over $2 million to cover treatment for a rare degenerative …

  A midnight outbreak of campus riot at the Gowrie Senior High/Technical School, a second-cycle institution in the Upper East Region, is reported to have left several female boarding students brutalised by police officers. The police officers, believed to have been dispatched from the Bongo District, where the school is …

The leader of Mali’s 2020 coup, Col. Assimi Goita, has declared himself the country’s President, hours after the release of Prime Minister Moctar Ouane and President Bah Ndaw from custody. President Bah N’Daw and Prime Minister Moctar Ouane were arrested Monday, along with other government leaders, hours after naming a …

suspected • The police command in Delta arrested a suspect for killing his twin brother at Oleh, Delta state • Sources close to the incident said it might have been carried out for ritual purposes • The incident was confirmed by the Police Public Relations Officer of the state command, …

The headmistress of Efutu M/A Basic school has prevented five final year pupils from writing Basic Education Certificate Examination (BECE) because they are pregnant. According to the students, the headmistress, Evelyn Efua Panyin, does not allow final year students who are pregnant to write their final exams. One of the …

Mono, a Nigerian startup, has raised $2 million from five investors, to help digital businesses to access financial data and accounts of customers. This fundraising is one out of many. The recent funds was obtained from a seed round, however, the Nigerian API firm, which wires customers and digital businesses …

Two years after the death of the enigmatic and charismatic Zimbabwean leader Robert Mugabe, his wife Grace has been fined five cows and two goats by a traditional court in the country for the transgression of not burying her husband according to traditional customs. Mrs. Mugabe was tried in absentia …

• President Bah Ndaw and PM Moctar Ouane were arrested late Monday • They were hauled to Kati, the centre of Mali’s military apparatus • The reason for the arrest has been put down to a cabinet reshuffle that sidelined two military officers from the transitional government Malian soldiers unhappy …

  • The incident reportedly occurred at the Sogakope Hospital • According to the patient’s relative she does not understand why her mother who does not speak the Twi language was being addressed by a worker who could not speak their native Ewe language in the Volta Region • The …

  Hundreds of protesters partially blocked a highway into Nigeria’s capital Abuja on Monday after residents reported a spate of kidnappings in the area. Setting tyres on fire, the crowd barricaded a section of the Abuja-Kaduna highway in the Tafa area of Niger state, bordering the federal capital, an AFP …

  Observers in the aviation industry note that in February, a military aircraft crashed near Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport, Abuja, in which seven people died. They recalled that in 2021 alone, we had three crashes associated with the military — on February 27, March 31 and the third one was …

The Ministry of Education (MOE) has released an amount of Gh¢125,998,145.00 to the Buffer Stock Company and Headmasters of Senior High Schools for the payment of perishable food items for the school feeding programme across the country. Out of the total amount paid on May 14, 2021, Gh¢83, 184,673.00 was …

• The Kumasi Law Faculty of the Central University College was closed down for operating without authorisation from NAB • Affected students for the 2020/2021 academic year are being sorted out by the university • The main campus of the Central University College remains a top tier accredited tertiary institution …

• The Gang men gained access to the vessel and sorted the expatriate crew from the Ghanaian counterparts, where they took the former in their skiffs • Reports say MV Atlantic Princess crew failed to post lookout personnel • Information gathered said the armed gangsters disconnected all the communication systems …

Observers in the aviation industry note that in February, a military aircraft crashed near Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport, Abuja, in which seven people died. They recalled that in 2021 alone, we had three crashes associated with the military — on February 27, March 31 and the third one was on …

Hundreds of residents have been returning to their destroyed houses after Mount Nyiragongo erupted on Saturday, in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo. The river of boiling lava stopped short of Goma, a city of two million just south of the volcano. The lava halted near Buhene district, on the outskirts …