Nigeria fines broadcasters over BBC bandit documentary
Abuja – Nigerian regulators have fined three broadcasters the equivalent of $12 000 each for airing a BBC documentary... Read more
4 Aug, 2022
Top Zimbabwe novelist Tsitsi Dangarembga defiant after acquittal bid fails
Harare – Award-winning Zimbabwean author and filmmaker Tsitsi Dangarembga will go on trial next week for inciting violence after... Read more
4 Aug, 2022
Kenya’s Ruto: the chicken seller turned presidential ‘hustler’
Nairobi – Kenya’s William Ruto, the sharp-suited deputy president now running for the top office, is one of the... Read more
4 Aug, 2022
UN ‘regrets’ DRC expelling peacekeeping mission spokesperson
Kinshasa – The UN peacekeeping mission in the Democratic Republic of Congo on Thursday said it “regretted” a move... Read more
4 Aug, 2022
‘Baba’ Odinga: Kenya’s diehard presidential hopeful
Nairobi – Raila Amolo Odinga, a veteran Kenyan political leader and one-time prime minister, has long cast himself as... Read more
4 Aug, 2022
South Africa needs stronger security in place to stop the sabotage of its power supply
Sascha-Dominik (Dov) Bachmann, University of Canberra and Dries Putter, Stellenbosch University South African president Cyril Ramaphosa recently outlined plans... Read more
4 Aug, 2022
Senegal opposition seeks delay in release of poll results
Dakar – Senegal’s opposition formally requested on Wednesday that the results of recent legislative elections be withheld until its... Read more
4 Aug, 2022
29 minors detained in Guinea following protests
Conakry – Twenty-nine Guinean minors have been arrested and charged with unlawful assembly and the destruction of property following... Read more
4 Aug, 2022
Artisanal gold mining in South Africa is out of control. Mistakes that got it here
Tracy-Lynn Field, University of the Witwatersrand Illegal and unregulated artisanal gold mining on the Witwatersrand Basin, located south of... Read more
3 Aug, 2022
Burkina Faso army says civilians killed in air raid
Ouagadougou – Burkina Faso’s army said on Wednesday that civilians had been killed in an air strike against jihadists,... Read more
3 Aug, 2022
