Category: Africa

Theresa May has announced a tie-up with the Kenyan authorities to help track down British paedophiles as she concludes her tour of Africa.

August 30, 2018//-South Africa’s Economic Freedom Fighters party leader Julius Malema has called on South Africa to pull out of the Commonwealth.

August 29, 2018//-Not less than 1,331 Nigerians died in the road crashes in the second quarter of 2018, the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports.

August 28, 2018//-A group supporting Nigeria’s 75-year-old President Muhammadu Buhari has rubbished a claim by his US counterpart Donald Trump who reportedly described him as “lifeless”.

August 25, 2018//-Zimbabwe’s main opposition leader has refused to accept a court ruling upholding Emmerson Mnangagwa’s win in last month’s presidential elections.

A protester in Nairobi, Kenya, displays a poster calling for Bobi Wine’s release. Daniel Irungu/EPA Jimmy Spire Ssentongo, Uganda Martyrs University August 25, 2018//-Ugandan singer turned politician Robert Kyagulanyi Ssentamu, known as Bobi Wine, is at the centre of a storm in the East African nation.

Abuja, Nigeria, August 25, 2018//-Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari has congratulated the matriarch of the Elumelu family, Mrs. Suzanne Elumelu, on her 90th birthday.

All the world’s a stage; And all the men and women merely players; They have their exits and their entrances; And one man in his time plays many parts. (As you like it, Act II, scene VII, William Shakespeare.) August 22, 2018//-Indeed, Kofi Annan, born in 1938, entered the world in the City of Kumasi […]

August 20, 2018//-President Muhammadu Buhari has challenged Nigerians to rise above personal, group, sectarian and other primordial interests, and promote harmony and tolerance in dealing with one another at all times.

August 20, 2018//-A public inquiry in South Africa has started investigating alleged corruption by ex-President Jacob Zuma.