A Tutsi general and security advisor to Burundi’s vice president was killed Monday in an attack by heavily-armed men, along with his wife and daughter, a security source said. According to AFP, It was the latest bloodshed to hit a country which has been engulfed by a political crisis which erupted in April 2015 when […]
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Popular Congolese singer Papa Wemba is dead. The world music star known as the “king of Congolese rumba”, has died after collapsing on stage during a concert. The 66-year-old singer collapsed mid-performance at the Femua festival of urban music in Abidjan, Ivory Coast, on Saturday night. On Sunday, the organisers confirmed his death, extending condolences […]
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Google Inc. is scaling up its digital skills training programs to accommodate a million Africans in the next year, aiming to deal with high unemployment numbers on the continent. The U.S. tech giant plans to train 300,000 people in South Africa, it said in a statement, a country where 35 percent of 15-to-34-year-olds are unemployed, Bloomberg […]
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Somalia — A former journalist who joined the Islamic extremist group al-Shabab was executed in Somalia’s capital for the killings of five Somali journalists. According to NYPost Hassan Hanafi Haji, who was extradited from Kenya last year on the request of the Somali government, was killed by firing squad at a police academy in Mogadishu […]
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Barely three weeks after their arrest, the self-confessed Chibok suicide bomber, Aissatou Musa, and her partner, Mamma Sali, are yet to be released to the Federal Government. The two girls were said to be undergoing what a security source described as “bonafide” investigation in Yaounde. According to The Nation, Some Nigerian security agents are in the […]
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[su_dropcap]A[/su_dropcap] five-year-old boy tested positive for Ebola in Liberia just days after his mother died of the virus in the second flare-up to hit West Africa in recent weeks, the health ministry said on Sunday, Reuters report. A 30-year-old woman died of Ebola in Monrovia last week, months after Liberia was declared free of the […]
Read More [su_dropcap]N[/su_dropcap]igerian authorities are investigating a statement by a would-be suicide bomber who said she is one of 219 missing schoolgirls kidnapped by the militant group Boko Haram in 2014. According to UPI, The girl, who said she is 15, was arrested Friday night after military forces in northern Cameroon stopped her from detonating a bomb […]
Read More IN the latest flare up of Ebola virus that has killed more than 11,300 people in Sierra Leone and Liberia since 2013, a fourth person has died as the WHO declared a flare-up of the virus in neighbouring Sierra Leone over “The young girl who was hospitalized at the Ebola treatment center in Nzerekore is […]
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Aliko Dangote, Africa’s richest man, has made a bid for a majority stake in automaker Peugeot Automobile Nigeria (PAN) Limited, NewStage report. Nasir El-Rufai, the Governor of Nigeria’s Kaduna state, told journalists on Thursday that Dangote is a key member of a consortium that has applied to acquire the majority stake in the company which […]
Read More TWO people from the same family have died from Ebola in Guinea, the government said Thursday, as the WHO declared a flare-up of the virus in neighbouring Sierra Leone over. Test samples from the two patients “revealed the presence of the Ebola haemorrhagic fever virus”, the government said in a statement, while officials feared further suspected […]
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THE Nigeria President, Muhammadu Buhari on Monday night received in Malabo Equatorial Guinea’s highest national honour, the Grand Collar of the Order of the Independence. He has dedicated it to the people of Nigeria, who, he said, have worked tirelessly for peace in the country and Africa. Buhari in a statement by the Special Adviser on […]
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When South Africa’s President Jacob Zuma visited Nigeria last week he was on a delicate mission to mend rifts between the continent’s two economic powerhouses. From economic rivalry to political friction, relations between South Africa and Nigeria have been strained in recent years. The election of Nigeria’s President Muhammadu Buhari into office last May did not […]
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