The United States has announced economic sanctions on Zineb Jammeh, the wife of former Gambia President Yahya Jammeh. The US Department of State, in a statement…
Author: Olorunwa Lawal
Police officers in Kenya are buying their uniforms from civilian tailors, a report has said. Local reports said the development follows a government order that the…
Ugandan Police have linked the severed head of a child brought to the country’s parliament by a 22-year-old man to a headless body found in Kampala.…
The United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) has condemned the imprisonment of a 13-year-old Nigerian boy over blasphemy. Omar Farouq was sentenced to 10 years in prison…
Mthetho Khauta, a South African man serving life imprisonment for rape, has regained freedom after successfully appealing his conviction and sentence. Khauta, a taxi driver, was…
The Danish Government has donated an assortment of equipment and supplies – worth $800,000 – to Uganda has the African country prepares to resume commercial passenger…
Nigeria has announced five new deaths from the novel coronavirus (COVID-19), bringing the death toll in Africa’s most populous nation to 1,088. In the announcement made…
Senegal’s Ministry of Health and Social Action on Tuesday announced 208 of Senegalese soldiers have tested positive for the novel coronavirus (COVID-19). The soldiers had recently…
Former military ruler of Mali, Moussa Traore, is dead. He was aged 83. Traore ruled the West African nation for 22 years. Traoré – a Malian…
The African Leaders for Nutrition (ALN) have unveiled a position paper calling on African Heads of State and Governments to ensure that financing for nutrition is…