Africa

Civil society groups in Kenya are complaining about a chronic shortage of free condoms across the country. The life-saving products are usually imported and distributed for free but due to high taxes suppliers are no longer providing Kenya with free condoms. The activists want the government to remove taxes on …

A man has died after hanging himself from the flyover near the NNPC gas station on the Sanni Abacha highway in Yenagoa, the capital of Bayelsa State, Nigeria. The victim’s corpse was found by passers-by dangling on the rail of the flyover. While some residents believed that the deceased was …

More than 20 people have drowned in rivers and dams across South Africa’s northern Limpopo province in less than two months amid persistent rains, the police have said. The police said they were attending to “numerous calls” of drowning cases in all the five districts of the province. “From the …

Nigeria’s Ogun State Police Command has arrested a 36-year-old man suspected homosexual for raping a five-year-old boy to death. Upon the report, the DPO Ogijo division, CSP Enatufe Omoh, quickly detailed his detectives to the scene where the suspect was promptly arrested. The suspect confessed being an homosexual and that while …

Nigeria’s Ogun State Police Command announced the arrest of a woman and a 19-year-old boy, for robbing traders with toy guns. The suspects were arrested during an operation at Adesan, Mowe, in the Obafemi-Owode Local Government Area of the state. It was discovered that they came to rob the shop …

Presidential elections in the Democratic Republic of Congo will be held on 20 December next year, the electoral commission has announced. Currently, insecurity is plaguing the east of the country with numerous rebel groups creating instability. The AFP news agency reports that the head of the electoral commission acknowledged that …

The Brics had chosen the Central African Republic’s capital Bangui to host their future headquarters, after a delegation from the Brics alliance visited Bangui for several days. The President of this organization of five major emerging economies (Brazil, Russia, China, India, South Africa) has exceptionally awarded “the medal of strategic …

Malawi’s Anti-Corruption Bureau has arrested and charged the country’s Vice President Saulos Klaus Chilima over graft allegations, it said on Friday, following months of investigation over his conduct, Reuters agency reported. In a national address in June, Malawi’s President Lazarus Chakwera stripped Chilima of his powers when the watchdog first …

Sao Tome and Principe Prime Minister Patrice Trovoada announced that a coup attempt had been foiled on Thursday evening. Individuals had attacked the headquarters of the army, he said at the time of his exit. This coup attempt was aborted thanks to the effective and professional reaction of the security …

Learners in Uganda are heading back home after the government closed schools two weeks earlier than originally scheduled in order to slow down an outbreak of Ebola in the country. The ministry of education ordered closure of schools after more than 20 confirmed Ebola cases were recorded among students. Parents …