Kenyan Athlete Agnes Jebet Tirop, who represented Kenya at the Tokyo 2020 Olympics and World Record Holder in Women’s 10000m category, has died at age 25. Tirop was found dead at home in Iten, Elgeyo Marakwet County reportedly with stab wounds to her abdomen. HEARTBREAKING! She was just 10 days away from her 26th birthday.Rest […]
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Report Says Gaddafi was tortured, sodomised and fatally shot by NATO-backed rebels in October 2011, with the incident captured on video and broadcast by media networks around the world. Post-Gaddafi Libya degenerated into a failed state ruled by warlords, terrorists and rival factional governments vying for control of the oil-rich nation. The remains of former […]
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With shops reportedly looted and roads blocked as thousands of protesters marched through Johannesburg, the country’s largest city. The police confirmed that at least 62 people were arrested on Sunday as they protested the 15-year jail term of the 79-year-old Zuma who was sentenced for defying a court order to testify before a state-backed inquiry probing allegations […]
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Former South African President, Jacob Zuma, on Tuesday asked a regional court to block his arrest as he pursues legal challenges against a prison sentence. The development came just a week after the country’s constitutional court sentenced the ex-President to a 15-month jail term for contempt of court. Zuma had defied an order to give […]
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Ugandan internet users have been hit by a new tax on mobile data in a move the country’s opposition leader branded a new assault on freedom of speech. The levy came into effect on Thursday and imposes a 12 percent excise duty on mobile data, pushing up costs in a nation already bogged down by […]
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The ECOWAS Court of Justice in Abuja in a landmark ruling on Tuesday, restrained the government of President Muhammadu Buhari and its agents from imposing sanctions or doing anything whatsoever against anyone using twitter. The court gave the ruling in an application filed by the rights activists, Femi Falana, on behalf of the Social Economic […]
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The 15-nation Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) has agreed to postpone the debut of its single currency, the “eco,” until 2027. Jean-Claude Kassi Brou, President of the ECOWAS Commission, stated this at a news conference after a summit of leaders in Ghana on Saturday. The bloc had planned to launch a common currency […]
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Kenneth Kaunda, Zambia’s founding president and liberation hero, has died at a military hospital in the capital, Lusaka, where he was being treated for pneumonia. He was 97. Kaunda ruled Zambia from 1964, when the Southern African nation won its independence from Britain, until 1991, and afterwards became one of the most committed activists against […]
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The Chairman of the All Progressives Congress (APC) Caretaker/Extraordinary Convention Planning Committee, Mai Mala Buni, on Tuesday described the party as the largest in Africa. Buni stated this when he received the Korean Ambassador to Nigeria, Chi Tun Chon Hu, at the party’s National Secretariat in Abuja, adding that the APC is now the preferred […]
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Mali’s transitional president and prime minister resigned during mediation efforts Wednesday after being arrested in an apparent second military coup in nine months, a top junta aide and an international diplomat said. President Bah Ndaw and Prime Minister Moctar Ouane, tasked with steering the return to civilian rule after a coup last August, had been […]
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