Former Zimbabwe president Robert Mugabe’s funeral will take place on Sunday, 15 September. Zimbabwe’s Information Minister Monica Mutsvangwa tweeted the details of the final farewell to the former president on Monday. “The body is expected in Zimbabwe, Harare airport, anytime on Wednesday, 11 September 2019. On Thursday and Friday the body will be taken to the stadium, […]
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Nigeria’s ambassador to South Africa said that the violence in this country, as well as tit-for-tat attacks in Nigeria, would not affect relations between the two countries. Kabiru Bala was among diplomats who met officials from the Department of International Relations on Monday and Minister Naledi Pandor to discuss the recent tensions. Bala said that Africans must […]
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BBC Report – Robert Mugabe, Zimbabwe’s first post-independence leader, has died aged 95. His family confirmed his death to the BBC. Mr Mugabe had been receiving treatment in a hospital in Singapore since April. He was ousted in a military coup in 2017 after 37 years in power. Mr Mugabe’s early years were praised for […]
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Gerco van Deventer’s family are struggling to come up with the $1.5 million in ransom money the captors are demanding. Gerco van Deventer, a 43-year-old father of three children, has been held captive in Libya since 2017, and his wife and family are struggling to raise the $1.5m (about R21.9m) his captors are demanding for […]
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Botswana’s democracy is growing stronger, says Dr Zibani Maundeni. Political scientist, author and analyst Dr Zibani Maundeni is a former professor at the University of Botswana. “Since 1966, the Botswana Democratic Party (BDP) has won all the elections. Then, in 2014 we saw the opposition forming a coalition. The Botswana National Front, Botswana Movement for […]
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Security forces have fired teargas at protesters in Nigeria’s commercial capital Lagos Monday morning. The Revolution Now protests called for by activists had been expressly outlawed by the police who said it was treasonable. Photos shared on social media showed people gathered at the Lagos national stadium where people were gathering for the event. The […]
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A light plane crashed in western Tanzania on Saturday, killing two South Africans who had been involved in last month’s successful attempt to fly a home-built aircraft from Cape Town to Cairo, officials said. The crashed Sling plane, which entered Tanzanian airspace from Uganda en route to Malawi, made a distress signal about engine failure […]
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Seventeen people have died and 32 have been injured in an explosion outside Egypt’s National Cancer Institute in central Cairo, Egypt’s health ministry said early on Monday. A car driving against traffic on Cairo’s corniche collided with three other cars, causing the explosion, Egypt’s interior ministry said in a statement. Egypt’s public prosecutor is investigating […]
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Though most on social media believe the crusade took place in South Africa, the evangelist seems to have been in Kenya. Pictures and videos of an evangelist who was walking and dancing on the streets of Kiserian, a town in Kenya, landed the country on the Twitter trends list at the weekend. Michael Job set […]
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Rwanda has shuttered its frontier with Ebola-hit Democratic Republic of Congo after a third case of the deadly virus was detected in the border city of Goma, the Congolese presidency said on Thursday. The announcement coincided with the first anniversary of an epidemic that has claimed more than 1,800 lives, stoking dread that the disease […]
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