Kenyan journalist brutally murdered
Kenyan radio journalist, Mohammed Hassan Marjan, was brutally murdered by unknown assailants early Monday morning on his way home from work under unclear circumstances. The veteran journalist working with Pamoja…
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Kenyan radio journalist, Mohammed Hassan Marjan, was brutally murdered by unknown assailants early Monday morning on his way home from work under unclear circumstances. The veteran journalist working with Pamoja…
The man responsible for the dissemination of President Muhammadu Buhari’s last speech has been nabbed and tagged an enemy of the state, revealed Femi Adesina, special adviser to the president…
Africa’s largest mobile operator MTN has asked a court in the US to dismiss a case which accuses the company of breaking anti-terrorist legislation in its business in Afghanistan. The…
Two guards and five inmates of a prison in Sierra Leone’s capital Freetown were killed on Wednesday in a riot described by authorities as an attempted escape, according to a…
Sudan has criminalised carrying out female genital mutilation (FGM), making it punishable by three years in jail. Some 87% of Sudanese women aged between 14 and 49 have undergone some…
A Kenyan court has upheld the ban on an award-winning film about a lesbian love story. Rafiki, meaning “friend” in Swahili, was banned by the Kenya Film and Classification Board…
Mozambique’s security forces have killed nearly 130 Islamist militants in the past three weeks, the government says. Interior Minister Amad Miquidade said the gas-rich northern province of Cabo Delgado was…
An Ivorian court on Tuesday sentenced former Prime Minister Guillaume Soro, who has been living in exile since December 2019, to 20 years in prison for corruption. This ruling is…
Police were recently at loggerheads with striking prison warders in a brawl that necessitated the release of tear gas in separate clashes in the northern city of Mzuzu and the…
Two police officers are to be charged for beating to death a man who had threatened to film them playing football in contravention of coronavirus restrictions in Mozambique. Abdul Razak,…