ZUMA CORRUPTION TRIAL POSTPONED South Africa’s former President, Jacob Zuma’ trial has been postponed to May 26 in order for his lawyers to argue for the…
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Burtram C. Fielding, University of the Western Cape and Dewald Schoeman, University of the Western Cape Back at the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, case numbers…
INSURGENCYWe begin in East Africa where a suicide bomber has killed at least six people, including senior police officers, at a police station in the Somali…
Nigeria’s House of Representatives has condemned the gruesome murder of a young lady who was apprehended, raped and murdered in Nigeria’s South-South region of Akwa Ibom…
Chad’s military junta has named a transition government. The army spokesman, Azem Bermandoa Agouna disclosed this in a televised statement. Deby’s 37-year-old son Mahamat, the country’s…
MONDAY CHAD APPOINTS NEW PRIME MINISTER On Monday, in Central Africa, Pahimi Padacké Albert was appointed as the new Prime Minister of Chad. 54-year-old Padacké came…
Police personnel escort a truck carrying medical liquid oxygen to the Guru Nanak Dev hospital in Amritsar, India, on April 24, 2021. Photo by NARINDER NANU/AFP…
Wale Fatade, The Conversation Nigeria accounts for nearly a quarter of deaths from malaria in the world – in 2018 the numbers stood at 95,000. Three…
GUINEA DISCHARGES LAST EBOLA PATIENT We begin the news at this hour in West Africa where Guinea’s last Ebola patient has been discharged from the treatment…
IDRISS DEBY’S STATE FUNERAL UNDERWAY (1952-2021) We begin the news in North Africa, the state funeral of Chad’s President Idriss Déby is now underway in the…