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Pirates Felt At Home In Gabon

Pirates Felt At Home In Gabon

Orlando Pirates’ versatile defender, Ayanda Gcaba has lauded the locals in Gabon after what he described as a safe and welcoming stay in the west African coastal country. Bucs Players Given Day Off The Buccaneers arrived back in the country on Wednesday morning but were given a day’s rest to recuperate ahead of their Absa […]

DRC members involved in LG polls to be removed from council

DRC members involved in LG polls to be removed from council

PESHAWAR: IGP Nasir Khan Durrani has ordered regional and district police officers to remove all those who are contesting local government elections or are directly or indirectly involved with the polls from the district resolution councils (DRC). Through a written order from the Central Police Office (CPO), the IGP told policemen across the province there […]

Rwandan troops cross into DRC

Rwandan troops cross into DRC

Kinshasa – Rwandan troops crossed into eastern Democratic Republic of Congo and wounded a local soldier, the Congolese government said on Wednesday, drawing an immediate denial from a Rwandan official. Government spokesperson Lambert Mende said Congolese troops fired warning shots at Rwandan troops who entered Rutshuru territory in DRC’s eastern province of North Kivu. “The […]

Angolan journalist ‘close to settling’ with generals he accused on blood diamonds

Angolan journalist ‘close to settling’ with generals he accused on blood diamonds

Rafael Marques de Morais is hopeful charges against him will be reduced in a settlement over his book Blood Diamonds: Corruption and Torture in Angola A leading Angolan journalist facing 24 charges of criminal defamation over his investigation into killing and torture at the country’s diamond mines is hopeful that all but three will soon […]

Angola seeks $10bn for infrastructure

Angola seeks $10bn for infrastructure

Angola, Africa’s second-largest oil producer, is seeking to raise up to $10bn from foreign creditors as it attempts to push ahead with key infrastructure projects in the face of severe headwinds triggered by the collapse in crude prices. The southern African nation has slashed its budget for the year by a quarter, or about $15bn, […]

43 Boko Haram child soldiers have been rescued by the Chadian army

43 Boko Haram child soldiers have been rescued by the Chadian army

Damasak-43 Boko Haram child soldiers have been rescued by the Chadian army in Damasak, Borno state. Spokesperson of Chadian Army, Col.Azem Agouna, while revealing this yesterday April 22nd, said the children, all aged between 12 and above and of Chadian nationality managed to escape during the clashes between insurgents and soldiers, while local families helped […]

11 people sentenced to life in prison for murdering a team educating locals about Ebola

11 people sentenced to life in prison for murdering a team educating locals about Ebola

CONAKRY—A court in Guinea has sentenced 11 people to life in prison for murdering a team educating locals about the risks of Ebola in a remote part of the West African country last year.The bodies of eight people were discovered in September in Womey, a village near the city of Nzerekore around 1,000 km (620 […]

Violence escalates in South Africa…(Viewer discretion is advised)

Violence escalates in South Africa…(Viewer discretion is advised)

Johannesburg-South African police fired rubber bullets Friday to disperse crowds setting immigrant businesses ablaze as attacks against foreigners spread to Johannesburg.Chanting and singing, machete-armed residents burned down shops owned by foreigners, including a Nigerian dealership in the nation’s largest city. Immigrants carrying bricks accused police of not doing enough to protect them as businesses smoldered. […]

Angola Negotiates $500 Million Societe Generale Line of Credit

Angola Negotiates $500 Million Societe Generale Line of Credit

Angola, sub-Saharan Africa’s third-largest economy, is negotiating a $500 million line of credit with Paris-based Societe Generale SA as it struggles to cope with plunging oil revenue. President Jose Eduardo dos Santos issued a decree April 8 approving a framework agreement for the Finance Ministry to secure the loan, according to the government gazette. The […]

EU, UN call for ‘urgent’ probe of Congo mass grave

EU, UN call for ‘urgent’ probe of Congo mass grave

KINSHASA – The European Union and United Nations called Friday for an urgent probe into a mass grave discovered in the Democratic Republic of Congo’s capital Kinshasa, which local authorities say contained hundreds of dead babies and foetuses. At least 421 bodies were buried in the grave in Maluku district in March, including about 300 […]

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