President Goodluck Ebele Jonathan is billed to leave Abuja Wednesday for Accra to join other Heads of State and Government to participate in a two-day summit of ECOWAS scheduled to open in Accra, the Ghanaian capital on Thursday. In a statement issued on Wednesday by the President’s Special Adviser on Media and Publicity, Dr. Reuben […]
Egyptian President Abdul Fatah al-Sisi has regretted the sentences passed on three Al Jazeera journalists, saying he would rather prefer they were deported. The newly-sworn in President declared his government had nothing to do with the court ruling and that the “verdict issued against a number of journalists” had had “very negative consequences” on the […]
At least 29 people have been killed by gunmen during raids on two different areas on the Kenyan coast, the country’s Interior Ministry revealed Sunday. The Somali militant group al-Shabaab, which attacked the Westgate shopping mall in Nairobi last September, said it had staged an attack on Saturday evening in the coastal area. The Ministry’s […]
Israeli Police have arrested six Jewish suspects over the murder last week of a Palestinian teenager, Mohammad Abu Khdair, whose death resulted to days of violent protests. Police source indicated the victim was murdered “because of his nationality”. Khdair was first abducted in East Jerusalem, while his body was found last Wednesday. The first autopsy […]
The trial and conviction of the arrested and detained suspects of July 2013 Egyptian protest and massacre continues as a criminal court in the country this morning, sentenced strong Muslim Brotherhood leader, Mohammed Badie, and 36 other members to life in prison. Death sentences were also slammed on 10 others, including an underage defendant who […]
The crash has been reported of a Fokker 50 cargoplane into a commercial building in Nairobi, the Kenya’s capital, shortly after taking off from the JKIA (Jomo Kenyatta International Airport), Nairobi. According to the Kenyan Airports Authority (KAA) in a tweet, four crew members on board were feared dead. The cargo plane crashed at […]
A horde of journalists gathered in London this morning to protest against the seven-year jail terms slammed on three al-Jazeera journalists in Egypt, BBC reports. A court in Cairo found Australia’s Peter Greste, Mohamed Fahmy and Baher Mohamed guilty of sedition, though the trio had denied the charges against them and are expected to appeal. […]
Newly elected Malawian President, Peter Mutharika has named his 20-member cabinet overnight, with a prominent opposition leader after over a month of chaotic elections that brought him to power. The cabinet includes United Democratic Front Presidential candidate, Atupele Muluzi, who came in fourth in the disputed May election as a Minister of Natural Resources, Energy […]
Dozens of people in Conakry, Guinea have been hospitalized after eating rice cooked with petrol on Tuesday, doctors told AFP. “In all, 114 people were admitted” to the main hospital in Conakry, a doctor, speaking on condition of anonymity, revealed. The patients suffered stomach aches, diarrhea and vomiting, the doctor said, adding that they […]
A leading Muslim cleric in kenya Sheikh Mohammed Idris, has been reportedly shot dead in the country coastal city of Mombasa. According to The Guardian, Sheikh Idris who was until his death the Chairman, Kenya Council of Imams and Preachers, was killed close to a mosque near his home by a group of gunmen. Reports […]
The Indomitable Lions of Cameroon on Sunday refused to board a plane due to take them to Brazil following a long-running dispute over bonus payments for the tournament, forcing their national federation to take out a loan to meet their demands. The country’s soccer governing body, Cameroon Football Federation confirmed the incident saying it ”regrets […]
ANC Promises Economic Reforms Oyewale Oyelola South Africa President, Jacob Zuma of African National Congress (ANC) has been declared the winner of Wednesday Presidential election in South Africa by South Africa Independent Electoral Commission (IEC) Chairperson Pansy Tlakula. IEC Chairperson Pansy Tlakula declared Zuma winner on Friday night after completion of votes counting from all […]
South Africans will on Wednesday go to the polling station to President that would lead the nation for next five years. Opinion polls in South Africa’s Sunday Times over the last two months have put ANC support at around 65%, only a shade lower than the 65.9% it won in the 2009 election that brought […]
A new prime minister has been appointed in Mali to succeed Oumar Tatam Ly, who has resigned from office – along with his entire government. Mr Ly was elected last year after a French-led military intervention ended an Islamist takeover. His successor is a former presidential hopeful, Moussa Mara, who had also served as minister […]
(Reuters) – Three people were killed when the small plane they were travelling in crashed near a landing strip in the South African province of KwaZulu Natal on Saturday, police and emergency services said. “The plane is apparently burnt beyond recognition,” Santi Steinmann, media liaison officer for private ambulance service Netcare 911, told Reuters. She […]
Kenyan President Uhuru Kenyatta has announced that he and his cabinet will take a pay cut to help bring down the government’s wage bill. President Kenyatta said that he and his deputy William Ruto would take a 20% cut while other ministers would have their pay reduced by 10%. Foreign trips, he said, would be […]
Former Isreali Prime Minister, Ariel Sharon, 85, is dead. Ariel Sharon’s century as a military and political leader in Israel was marked with victories and controversies. He died Saturday after eight years in a coma. The Israeli statesman was a national war hero to many Israelis for his leadership, both in uniform or as a […]
The military-backed interim Egyptian government has declared the Muslim Brotherhood a terrorist group after blaming it for a deadly attack on a police HQ earlier this week. The group, whose candidate Mohammed Morsi won the presidential poll last year before being deposed by the military, had already been outlawed. Thousands of its supporters have been […]
(Reuters) – African mediators said they held “productive” talks on Friday with South Sudan’s President Salva Kiir, trying to prevent an almost week-long conflict plunging the world’s newest nation into an ethnic civil war. In a sign of the nervousness among South Sudan’s neighbors, Ugandan soldiers flew in to help evacuate their citizens. Two anonymous […]
The sign-language interpreter at Nelson Mandela’s memorial service, who sparked outrage when it was revealed his signing was fake, was also accused of murder in 2003, according to a new local news report. Citing court documents, the Johannesburg-based news station eNCA reports that Thamsanqa Jantjie was charged with murder, attempted murder and kidnapping in 2003. […]
