Zimbabwe has harmonised the retirement age in the civil service to 65 years with immediate effect. The Secretary of the Public Service Commission (PSC), Vincent Hungwe,…
Author: Olorunwa Lawal
Support Peace Development Initiative Organisation (SPIDO), Executive Director, Wodcan Lazarus, on Friday disclosed that South Sudan has recorded more than 1,500 child marriages in five months.…
As the race to produce a vaccine to tackle the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic gathers momentum, Mozambican health authorities are looking at a new possible cure: the…
A nine-year-old Nigerian girl has died after her mother applied a pesticide on her hair to kill lice. The pesticides, Sniper, is very deadly and has…
The Police in Zimbabwe have arrested seven men for allegedly assaulting policemen enforcing covid-19 restrictions. The men who were celebrating the birthday of a colleague at…
An Ivorian woman, Charlette N’Guessan, has won this year’s Royal Academy of Engineering Africa prize for engineering innovation. The 26-year-old technology entrepreneur is the first woman…
Former Nairobi County Deputy Governor Jonathan Mueke has resigned from Wiper Democratic Party with immediate effect, according to statements made on Friday. Mueke did not state…
The World Health Organisation – WHO – says Africa will get at least 220 million initial doses of COVID-19 vaccines once it is approved. WHO Africa…
Namibia has begun the training of dogs to sniff out people infected with coronavirus – COVID-19. Humans infected with the virus are said to have a…
Ousted President of Mali, Ibrahim Boubacar Keita, has left a hospital after being admitted and treated for a mini-stroke. Keita was ousted in a military coup…