Kenya inaugurates Chinese-built railway linking port to capital
Kenya inaugurated a $3.2 billion railway funded by China linking the capital Nairobi to the port of Mombasa on Wednesday, the country’s biggest infrastructure project Read more
Kenya inaugurated a $3.2 billion railway funded by China linking the capital Nairobi to the port of Mombasa on Wednesday, the country’s biggest infrastructure project Read more
Social and economic activities were paralysed in parts of the Southeast as the people obeyed a call by two pro-Biafra groups for a public holiday Read more
South Sudanese soldiers accused of raping at least five foreign aid workers and killing their local colleague last year are due to stand trial in Read more
Three young women took turns raping a man over several days in South Africa, after they drugged him and held him against his will, say Read more
KINSHASA — Democratic Republic of Congo’s Health Ministry has approved the use of a new Ebola vaccine to counter an outbreak of the hemorrhagic fever in Read more
NAIROBI — In Kenya, the official campaign period has begun as the electoral body clears candidates to run for the presidency. The commission is calling on Read more
A rescue team in Nigeria’s commercial capital, Lagos, is trying to find survivors after a three-storey building collapsed today near the centre of the city. Read more
An Economist, Prof. Chika Aliyu has commended the Federal Government on the Economic Growth and Recovery Plan (ERGP), as the nation marks Democracy Day. Aliyu, Read more
An aspiring presidential candidate in Kenya is expected to be charged today after attempting to take his own life over the weekend. Local media report Read more
The leader of a Moroccan protest movement has been arrested, the AFP news agency is reporting. Nasser Zefzafi has been on the run since Friday Read more
Uganda is mourning the death of the country’s biggest private school entrepreneur, reports Nebert Rugadya from Radio One in Kampala. Prof Lawrence Mukiibi died on Read more
South Africa President Jacob Zuma defeated a no-confidence motion against him at a meeting of top officials of the ruling African National Congress party on Read more
Angola confirmed for the first time on Monday that 74-year-old President Jose Eduardo dos Santos, its leader of the last 38 years, was in Spain Read more
The Acting President, Prof. Yemi Osinbajo, on Sunday urged Nigerians to be prepared to make sacrifices to rescue the country from decay and make it Read more
Deputy Senate President, Ike Ekweremmadu, has advised that the sit-at-home order declared by some right groups in South-East for May 30 should be optional. The Read more
South Africa’s embattled president Jacob Zuma has been planning to set up home in Dubai, according to emails published in South African media. The reports Read more
So-called Islamic State (IS) has claimed it was behind an attack on a bus carrying Coptic Christians in Egypt that killed at least 29 people Read more
Egypt launched a fresh round of air strikes over Libya on Saturday, Egyptian military sources and an eyewitness told Reuters, targeting militant camps it said Read more
CAIRO – Libyan Islamist group Ansar al-Sharia, a group linked to Al-Qaeda, is formally dissolving itself, it said in a statement on Saturday. The group, Read more
Acting President Yemi Osinbajo on Saturday cautioned parents and the society against practices that can be inimical to the lives of Nigerian children. Osinbajo gave Read more
Egyptian forces have struck “terrorist training camps” in retaliation for an attack on Coptic Christians, President Abdul Fattah al-Sisi has said. State media say six Read more
JUBA – The South Sudanese government on Friday freed a local journalist working for a United Nations radio station who spent two and a half years Read more
The visit of Osinbajo attracted a large turnout of traders, shoppers and onlookers who besieged his motorcade to welcome him and his entourage to the Read more
ABUJA – Olu of Warri, Godfery Ikenwoli Emiko has said that the administration of President Muhammadu Buhari is serious with the development of Niger Delta Read more
The police in Abuja on Friday carried out a search on the Maitama, Abuja official guest house of the Deputy President of the Senate, Senator Read more
The African Court on Human and People’s rights based in Tanzania has made a landmark ruling allowing an indigenous Kenyan group known as the Ogiek Read more
Gunmen attacked buses and a truck taking a group of Coptic Christians to a monastery in southern Egypt on Friday, killing 26 people and wounding Read more
Enugu Coalition of Business and Professional Associations (ECOBPA) has lauded the Federal Government for various provisions in the 2017 Budget meant to facilitate the growth Read more
The nation’s external reserves continued its downward slide for the 20th day as it fell to $30.52 billion Thursday. Naira However, the Naira yesterday appreciated by Read more
South Africa’s opposition leader has been expelled from Zambia, blocking him from attending the treason case of his detained counterpart, his party says. Police boarded Read more
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