Outrage as Zimbabwe arrests students protesting high fees
Amnesty International has called for the Zimbabwean authorities to drop charges against university students who have been protesting against a…
Need to sustain current onslaught against terrorists
After what seemed like an unending barrage of attacks by insurgents, bandits, kidnappers and other criminal elements, the Nigerian military…
Buhari makes fresh appointment
President Muhammadu Buhari has approved the appointment of Major General Barry Tariye Ndiomu (retd) as Interim Administrator of the Amnesty…
Angola’s Lourenço to be sworn in for 2nd term amid heavy security | News
President Lourenco, 68, returned to power after the August 24 vote gave the ruling party a thin majority in its…
‘Hat in hand’: Putin meets Xi at summit in Samarkand | News
Few recent meetings had been as highly anticipated as the meeting of Russian President Vladimir Putin and Chinese President Xi…
How Ukrainians ‘de-Russify’ themselves | Russia-Ukraine war News
Kyiv, Ukraine – Oleksiy Savchenko stopped speaking his mother tongue the day Russia invaded Ukraine. “Before the invasion, I was…
Kenya’s new president scraps petrol subsidy | Oil and Gas News
President Ruto says subsidies have been costly and prone to abuse, including causing artificial shortages of subsidised products. Kenya has…
Another crisis hits NFF as court stops September 30 elections
The Nigeria Football Federation (NFF) September 30, 2022 elective congress has been put on hold by a high court in…
‘My heart died’: Ex-prisoners haunted by Syria’s ‘salt rooms’ | Syria’s War News
When a Syrian prison guard tossed him into a dimly-lit room, the inmate Abdo was surprised to find himself standing…
SA Parliament names panel to probe Ramaphosa over farm scandal | Politics News
The scandal around Ramaphosa erupted in June after South Africa’s former national spy chief, Arthur Fraser, filed a complaint with…
Benin bronzes go on last exhibition in Berlin before repatriation | Arts and Culture News
Stolen during the colonial era, dozens of bronzes that once decorated the royal palace of the Kingdom of Benin in…
Chadian rebel pardoned by Egypt ahead of N’djamena dialogue | Armed Groups News
The release comes on the heels of a pre-negotiation parley held for months in Doha by the Qatari emirate with…
Mozambican fishers compete for catch with trawlers
The fishing community in Mozambique’s southern Gaza province say they are worried about the presence of foreign trawlers carrying out…
Photos: DRC fishing community turns to tourism as stocks dwindle | Business and Economy News
In his part of the Democratic Republic of the Congo’s Orientale province, many like 16-year-old student Kalimo now get by…
Angolan president to be sworn in for second term
Angolan President João Lourenço will be sworn in for a second term on Thursday after narrowly winning the country’s tightest…
Four Nigerians jailed for life for raping girls
Four men have been imprisoned for life after being convicted of rape in Nigeria’s northern state of Jigawa. The state’s…
Akeredolu announces mother’s death at 90
The Ondo state governor, Oluwarotimi Akeredolu, has announced the death of his mother, Lady Evangelist Grace Akeredolu who died at…
Kenyan leader deletes tweet revoking Western Sahara links
Kenya’s President William Ruto deleted a tweet revoking Kenya’s long-standing recognition of the Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic (SADR) following a…
Zambian president suspends chief prosecutor
Zambian President Hakainde Hichilema has suspended the country’s chief state prosecutor with immediate effect – barely two days after she…
‘Girls have less to eat’: Hungry and out of school in South Sudan | Hunger
Rumbek, South Sudan – “There are times when I feel so hungry that I think going to school would be…