Africa

Residents of the Kenyan capital Nairobi have been urged to be vigilant as Kenyan Wildlife Authorities said lions were roaming the city. The Kenyan wildlife authorities have urged residents of Nairobi’s Lang’ata area to be vigilant following reports of three lions spotted nearby. On Thursday, a team from the Kenya …

A Policeman has been shot dead by unknown assailants in the Bobiri Forest Reserve at Kubease near Ejisu, Ghana. A complaint was lodged by a certain Caleb Adu Agyemang, MP for the Kubease constituency, alleging that an adult male in his thirties was found dead in the forest reserve on …

Rwanda’s High Court has excluded a prominent opposition politician and critic of President Paul Kagame, preventing him from running in July’s presidential elections. Bernard Ntaganda, 55, had asked the court to lift his convictions so he could qualify to run in the election. The High Court declined Mr Ntaganda’s request …

A 22-year-old man has been arrested for killing his two-year-old son in Berekum-Koraso, in the Berekum West district of Ghana’s Bono region. “The suspect has tied the body in a sack and dumped it in a bush,” according to reports. However, luck eluded him as some community members spotted him …

South African President Cyril Ramapahosa signed a controversial universal healthcare bill into law in Pretoria on Wednesday, local media reported. Mr Ramphosa described it as a major step towards a more just society. Despite Mr Ramaphosa’s enthusiasm when he signed the bill, many political groups have said they are considering …

Gambian former interior minister, Ousman Sonko has been sentenced to 20 years in prison by a court in Switzerland for crimes against humanity committed when President Yahya Jammeh was in power. Ousman Sonko fled to Switzerland in 2016 and claimed asylum, shortly before Mr Jammeh was voted out of office. …

Internet has been restored in Tanzania after a severe three-day outage, one of the country’s major telecom companies says. Tanzania and the French territory of Mayotte were the worst-hit by the outage that began on Sunday morning, with connectivity levels falling below 30% of what they were expected to be. …

A 43-year-old man has been sentenced to life imprisonment over a murder attempt on a woman by macheting her in the farm in Aramoko Ekiti, Nigeria. The suspect was arraigned before the court on a one-count charge bordering on an attempt to murder. The victim, in her testimony before the …

The Mozambican government said it was working with Russian authorities to investigate the circumstances surrounding the death of the Russian Ambassador Alexander Surikov, local media reported. Surikov, 68, was found dead on Saturday night at his official residence in the Mozambican capital, Maputo, local media reported. The cause of his …

The US Embassy in Tanzania has closed its doors for two days due to an internet outage affecting several East African countries. “Due to degraded network service nationwide, the embassy will remain closed to the public,” the embassy said in a post on X (formerly Twitter) on Monday. It cancelled …