Four dead in DRC mine attack, two Chinese missing
Bunia – Four people have been killed and two Chinese workers gone missing after soldiers and militiamen battled over... Read more
13 Aug, 2022
SA arrests 20 ‘instigators’ of deadly 2021 riots; Kenya TV channels stop sharing poll tallies | Here are your top news headlines
Cape Town – From SA arresting 20 people suspected of being among the instigators of the 2021 riots; to... Read more
13 Aug, 2022
‘Catastrophe’: East DRC hospital overflows amid rebel fighting
Rutshuru – Dozens of bandaged patients lounge on beds in a hushed hospital ward in eastern Democratic Republic of... Read more
12 Aug, 2022
Senegal arrests 143 migrants headed for Europe
Dakar – Senegal’s paramilitary police has arrested 143 migrants in two seaside swoops as they prepared to embark in... Read more
12 Aug, 2022
Marikana massacre: What happened on the day
Johannesburg – It starts with a tense standoff that will end up in slaughter. Hundreds of police officers watch... Read more
12 Aug, 2022
Burkina Faso allows ex-leader Kabore to travel abroad ‘on medical grounds’
Ouagadougou – Burkina Faso has allowed ex-president Roch Marc Christian Kabore to leave the country for the first time... Read more
12 Aug, 2022
Calm returns to Sierra Leone as protest death toll rises
Freetown – Calm returned to Sierra Leone on Thursday a day after an economic protest spiralled into violence the... Read more
12 Aug, 2022
Guinea to prosecute ex-PM over alleged embezzlement
Conakry – Guinea will prosecute former prime minister Ibrahima Kassory Fofana over the alleged embezzlement of more than $4... Read more
12 Aug, 2022
Nigeria’s Buhari vows safe rescue of train attack hostages
Abuja – Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari on Thursday vowed to rescue 31 hostages taken in a train attack and... Read more
12 Aug, 2022
Kenya TV channels stop sharing poll tallies
Nairobi – Kenyan media stopped broadcasting the provisional results of the country’s presidential poll, raising questions over the outcome... Read more
12 Aug, 2022
