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IMAGE COPYRIGHTAFPimage captionThe Burkinabe army has been struggling to contain militant violence Armed men have killed over 132 people in an attack on a village in northern Burkina Faso, the country’s worst attack in recent years, the government says. Homes and the local market were burned during the overnight raid …

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 …

Tshwane metro police spokesperson Isaac Mahamba said six people were burnt beyond recognition Image: Supplied: TMPD/Isaac Mahamba Six people died and at least 57 others were injured, one critically, when a bus caught fire in Tshwane on Friday afternoon. The incident took place on the R573 Moloto Road. Tshwane metro police …

Professor Kwesi Aning, the Director of the Faculty of Academic Affairs & Research, at the Kofi Annan International Peacekeeping Training Centre (KAIPTC), has stated that Burma Camp, which is the country’s major military operations centre is no longer a security zone due to the influx of civilians and other non-military …

  A report shared by a Facebook user claims that eating banku, local fermented corn and cassava based food wrapped in polythene, is equivalent to smoking 135 sticks of cigarettes. Initial investigations reveal that this claim has been seen making its rounds online. With this re-circulation, the discussion has picked …

  A 3-minute long hip-hop tune has catapulted Kwesi Arthur into topping Twitter trends for hours since its release, Wednesday dawn. Titled ‘Warming Up (Emotionally Scarred Freestyle)’, the record sees Kwesi Arthur showering accolades on himself including a claim that he is the new age Tupac while highlighting the hurdles he’s had to cross …

image captionPolice have accused the banned separatist group, the Indigenous People of Biafra, of carrying out the attack More than 1,800 inmates have escaped from a prison in Nigeria after it was attacked by gunmen, officials say. The attackers reportedly entered the prison yard in the south-eastern town of Owerri …

The SABC is retrenching 621 employees in a major shake-up amid the cash-strapped national broadcaster’s turnaround process. Group CEO Madoda Mxakwe said in a letter the section 189 process was extremely difficult and emotionally charged, but “a necessary component of the SABC’s turnaround plan to ensure the public broadcaster’s long-term …

President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo has a list of celebrities who have been vocal about endorsing him as the next president of Ghana. As the days inch closer to the 2020 general elections, these famous faces are chiming in to throw their weight behind President Nana Addo who is also …