20 African Migrants Die After Boat Sinks off Tunisia
No less than 20 African migrants have died after their makeshift boat sank off Tunisia on Thursday while trying to cross the Mediterranean to the Italian island of Lampedusa. Five people
No less than 20 African migrants have died after their makeshift boat sank off Tunisia on Thursday while trying to cross the Mediterranean to the Italian island of Lampedusa. Five people
Morocco has commenced the implementation of the three weeks night curfew to curb the spread of the coronavirus disease. The curfew that begins at 9 pm and ends at 6
Reports suggest two demonstrators were killed on Wednesday in a protest outside the police headquarters in the Zambian capital Lusaka, where opposition leader Hakainde Hichilema was being questioned. AFP reports that riot police
There are doubts over the Nigerian government’s commitment to “faithfully implement” the agreement it recently reached with the country’s university lecturers. The Academic Staff Union of University (ASUU) an umbrella
Nigeria’s federal government has introduced new security apparatus to further secure the nation’s busiest gateway, the Murtala Muhammed International Airport (MMIA), Lagos. The government in response to reports of incessant
The Nigerian presidency has suggested that a smear campaign that aims to portray the country’s leader Muhammadu Buhari as not being in charge of the country is in the works,
More than 100 people were killed by unknown gunmen in Ethiopia’s western region of Benishangul-Gumuz, the latest deadly violence in the area. Witnesses said the attack occurred early on Wednesday
The United Nations says it has reclaimed a town in the Central African Republic from rebels who seized it on Tuesday. “The situation in Bambari is under control,” Abdoulaziz Fall, spokesman for the UN
The African Tobacco Control Alliance (ATCA) has called for a strong tobacco control law to protect citizens of Botswana from the devastating effects of tobacco following the frightening rise in the number of
There is a need for urgent funds to address a humanitarian emergency for tens of thousands of Ethiopian refugees, the United Nations has said. These refugees have fled conflict in Ethiopia’s
If citizens have been seeking for any strand of evidence to the fact that government in Nigeria is non-existent, Professor Pat Utomi suggests that the abduction of over 300 Kankara schoolboys is one. [bc_video video_id=”6217997036001″ account_id=”6116119081001″ player_id=”CJdhmO46zo” embed=”in-page”
A spokesman for Nigeria’s President Muhammadu Buhari on Tuesday dismissed an editorial in Financial Times, an international daily newspaper based in Britain, which described Nigeria as a country that is
Nigeria’s Department of State Services (DSS) has raised the alarm over the “plot to bomb some places” during the Christmas holidays. In a statement on Tuesday, the agency asked Nigerians
Governors of Nigeria’s 36 states under the auspices of the Nigeria Governors’ Forum (NGF) on Tuesday expressed worry over the deteriorating security challenges bedevilling the country, particularly in the North-west.
President Muhammadu Buhari on Tuesday charged Nigerians to brace up for the inconveniences of measures being introduced by the government to protect them in the aftermath of the resurgence of
Botswana’s gross domestic product shrank by 6%% from a year earlier in the third quarter of 2020, easing from a record slump of 24% in the previous three-month period when
Nigerian President, Muhammadu Buhari on Tuesday said the effective supervision of the border the country shares with Niger can only be supervised by God. A statement by a presidential aide
A report by the International Commission on Mali has indicted the Malian army and several armed groups for committing “war crimes” and “crimes against humanity”. The commission was established by
The United States on Monday reinstated Sudan’s sovereign immunity, as the US Congress passed legislation formalizing the move, following the ending of Sudan’s designation as a state sponsor of terror.
Nigeria’s Minister of Information and Culture, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, has said the federal government is considerig banning international travels to curb the spread of Covid-19, especially the new variant manifesting
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