Africa

Etienne Eto’o Pineda, 18, son of Samuel Eto’o Fils wants to follow in his father’s footsteps and even do better than him. The young international junior striker from Real Oviedo, Spain, has great ambitions for his career and has huge challenges. “My father was a huge influence in my life …

President Yoweri Museveni has once again accused tech giant Facebook of being biased against Uganda’s ruling party and its supporters. The social media platform suspended several accounts linked to the National Resistance Movement (NRM) party days to the January election, accusing them of being involved in Coordinated Inauthentic Behaviour (CIB) …

Nana Akufo-Addo, the president of Ghana has become the world’s first recipient of the coronavirus vaccine from Covax, a scheme to procure and distribute inoculations for poorer countries. A wider Covax program will begin in Ghana on Tuesday but health workers in Ivory Coast are being vaccinated on Monday. The …

Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari remains adamant about his position on the creation of the ECO, a sensible currency to confer monetary sovereignty. According to him, there will not be a “françafrique” version of ECO. “President Macron is forcing himself, he wants at all costs to steal, to hack the ECO …

Ghanaian president Nana Akufo-Addo has urged his people not to heed conspiracy theories casting doubt on vaccination programme as the country prepares to start its Covid vaccine rollout this week. Mr Akufo-Addo said some doubted the efficacy of jabs, and others believed that vaccines were created to wipe out the …

Ugandan opposition leader Bobi Wine is in trouble over an alleged bullet-proof vehicle in his possession, according to a report by the Daily Monitor newspaper. The vehicle has attracted the attention of the Ugandan authorities, with the Ugandan Revenue Authority (URA) saying its details had been misrepresented and thus undervalued. …

Dr Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, Nigerian-American, starts work as the new head of the World Trade Organisation (WTO) on Monday. Former finance and foreign minister of Nigeria, Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala is the first woman and first African to run the WTO. According to the new leader, tackling the health and economic consequences of …

Cyril Ramaphosa, the South African president announced that restrictions established in order to curb the spread of the coronavirus pandemic will be lowered from level three to level one. He said that restrictions put in place over the holiday period had succeeded in reducing infections levels from 90,000 a week …

In a statement, the police in DRC announced that at least ten people have been killed in a militia attack in the east of the country. A military spokesman said the Allied Democratic Forces beheaded eight people in one village Boyo and shot two more in another nearby Kainama. They …

A judge in Paris has ruled that the corruption trial of a leading French industrialist should go ahead, despite his guilty plea. The court decided that the case against Vincent Bolloré was so serious that it should not be settled, as agreed with prosecutors, with a $450,000 fine. Mr Bolloré …