South Sudanese Rebels Release 18 UN Peacekeepers
South Sudanese rebels have released 18 United Nations peacekeepers who were on board two barges that were seized on the river Nile, a UN spokeswoman said Friday. The 18 were released on Thursday, said Ariane Quentier, a spokesperson for the UN mission in South Sudan. She declined to reveal their nationalities. The rebels are still […]
Mauritania Govt Will Not Prosecute Ahmed Ould Abdel Aziz Detainee Freed From Guantanamo
A Guantanamo Bay detainee from Mauritania released this week by U.S. military authorities has rejoined his family and will not face prosecution in the West African nation, the Mauritanian government said. Ahmed Ould Abdel Aziz was flown to Mauritania on Wednesday after a review board unanimously approved his release from the prison camp at the […]
Zimbabwe’s President Mugabe Almost Falls Down At India Summit: Watch Video
President Robert Mugabe (91) yesterday showed signs of worsening frailty as he stumbled backwards before being assisted by Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi and aides to scale a small step while attending the India-Africa Forum Summit in New Delhi, India. The incident, which went viral on social media, reminded many of Mugabe’s dramatic fall at […]
Stealing To Survive Is Not A Crime In South Africa – EFF
The criminal matters amendment bill should make a clear distinction between stealing to survive and vandalism of essential infrastructure, the EFF said on Thursday. The bill would make it a crime for people to try and survive when the state was failing them, Economic Freedom Fighters MP Nicholous Khoza argued during debate on the legislation […]
Drama, Rowdiness, Verbal Missiles, Walkouts In Nigeria As Senate Confirms Amaechi As Minister
Senators of the Peoples Democratic Party on Thursday staged a walkout in protest of the procedure adopted by the upper legislative chamber in clearing a former governor of Rivers State, Chibuike Amaechi, for a ministerial position for which he was nominated by President Muhammadu Buhari. However, their counterparts in the All Progressives Congress, Mr. Amaechi’s […]
Boko Haram Releases New Photos Of Its Rocket-Making Factory
Boko Haram sect today released some photos of its rocket-making factory while carefully excluding the location. The photos were released today on Twitter via a handle; Terror Monitor. See more photos after the cut. At this point only God can really tell the mission of these guys. Please follow and like us:
Tanzania Hip-Hop Artiste Professor Jay Wins Parliamentary Seat
Tanzanian legendary hip-hop artiste Joseph Haule aka Professor Jay is the new Mikumi Constituency member of parliament. The 40-year-old rapper, who so far has five solo studio albums, beat his fellow contestants in a hotly-contested elections that happened on Sunday. He was running on a Chadema party ticket. “I am not just here to speak […]
Where Did Angola’s Oil Riches Go?
A few years ago, Luanda, the capital of Angola, was on every ambitious investor’s lips. With large infrastructure and housing projects rapidly changing its appearance, the city seemed to be leaving behind the country’s 27-year civil war. But hopes for renewal are slowly dissipating as the price of the commodity on which Angola’s future was […]
Ban On Overseas Adoptions Fuels Smuggling of Children In Congo-Kinshasa
A crackdown on international adoptions by the Democratic Republic of Congo has spurred a black market in child smuggling, with Americans paying to get dozens of infants out across its jungle borders, the Thomson Reuters Foundation has found. More than 80 Congolese children have been taken illegally out of the country in the past two […]
South Africa Students Back At Parliament To Hand Over Memorandum
The crowd of students gathering in front of Parliament have started to grow as more protesters, some wearing white headbands, have joined in. Earlier a group of about 100 students and workers gathered outside the gates of Parliament to hand over a memorandum calling for the police minister to be held accountable for the “brutality […]
