Two Chinese, one Congolese jailed in DRC over prostitution
Kinshasa – Two Chinese nationals and a Congolese official were sentenced to 10 years in prison over the procurement of... Read more
20 Nov, 2021
Libya’s parliament speaker enters presidential race
Tripoli – Libya’s parliament speaker Aguila Saleh registered on Saturday to run in next month’s presidential election, joining a... Read more
20 Nov, 2021
Polisario chief announces ‘escalation’ in Western Sahara
Algiers – The head of the Western Sahara independence movement, the Polisario Front, said on Friday it had decided to... Read more
20 Nov, 2021
Grade-12 pupil receives trauma counselling after 4 men allegedly try to kidnap her
Cape Town – The Gauteng education department says a Grade 12 pupil from Sandringham High School in Johannesburg survived... Read more
20 Nov, 2021
Equatorial Guinea’s ruler set to be nominated for sixth term
Malabo – Equatorial Guinea’s president Teodoro Obiang Nguema Mbasogo, the longest ruling head of state in the world excluding monarchs,... Read more
20 Nov, 2021
Uganda police kill 5 suspects as attacks probe widens
Kampala – Uganda police shot dead five suspects and arrested 21 people on Thursday, an official said, as part... Read more
20 Nov, 2021
Ivory Coast probes rape claims against security forces
Abidjan – Ivory Coast is probing claims its security forces raped five women during a crackdown on illegal gold mining... Read more
20 Nov, 2021
Libyans protest against Haftar, Gaddafi presidential runs
Tripoli – Hundreds of Libyans protested in Tripoli Friday against “war criminals” running in next month’s presidential election, after eastern... Read more
20 Nov, 2021
Congo clinic helps embattled albino minority
Brazzaville – Often discriminated against, attacked and even sacrificed in obscure witchcraft rituals in some African countries, albinos also... Read more
20 Nov, 2021
Gambia’s ex-dictator Yahya Jammeh defies president ahead of polls
Banjul – Gambia’s former dictator Yahya Jammeh, now in exile, has defied outgoing president Adama Barrow from afar as the... Read more
20 Nov, 2021
