Politics As deadlines loom, doubts over Mali’s shift to civilian rule Bamako – The colonels who rule Mali have repeatedly said they will restore civilian rule in early 2022, but with... Read more 1 Sep, 2021
Business ‘How do you think 3% can clean the spills?’: New law stokes tension in Nigeria’s blighted oil delta Ejamah-Ebubu – Nigerian farmer Nwale Nchimaonwi celebrated when he learnt that an oil law to overhaul the industry and... Read more 1 Sep, 2021
News Old bike and farm motor bring light to Malawi village Yobe Nkosi – Fifteen years ago, when darkness used to fall in Yobe Nkosi, a remote village in northern... Read more 1 Sep, 2021
Sport Uganda’s penniless Silverbacks risk AfroBasket ouster Kampala – Uganda’s national basketball team risk being kicked out of the AfroBasket championships because they have not got... Read more 1 Sep, 2021
News 1000s still living in makeshift shelters, crying for help, 3 months after DRC volcano Goma – More than three months after the eruption of the Nyiragongo volcano in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo,... Read more 1 Sep, 2021
News At least 380 000 affected by heavy flooding in South Sudan Juba – Heavy flooding has affected at least 380 000 people in South Sudan, with overflowing rivers submerging homes... Read more 1 Sep, 2021
Arts and Leisure Beauty with brains! Miss SA Shudufhadzo Musida launches children’s book Cape Town – Miss South Africa Shudufhadzo Musida has finally launched her much-anticipated children’s book, Shudu Finds her Magic,... Read more 1 Sep, 2021
News Outcry in Ivory Coast over televised ‘rape demonstration’ Abidjan – A TV channel in Ivory Coast apologised on Tuesday after airing a show in which a man... Read more 1 Sep, 2021
Jacob Zuma Parole Jacob Zuma refuses to undergo state medical exam… asks why his ill-health is being doubted Cape Town – Former South African president Jacob Zuma has reportedly refused to undergo a medical examination by doctors... Read more 1 Sep, 2021
Business DRC to beef up security at uranium mine for WWII era bombs Lubumbashi – Authorities in the Democratic Republic of Congo say they will beef up security against illegal mining at a... Read more 1 Sep, 2021