Southern Africa

The leader of the second-largest opposition party in Mozambique, Daviz Simango has died in neighbouring South Africa where he had been evacuated on Feburary 13. A few days earlier, Mr Simango was tested negative whereas his wife was tested positive for coronavirus. His brother Lutero Simango told journalists at the …

The judicial inquiry into government corruption in South Africa has asked the Constitutional Court to sentence former President Jacob Zuma to two years in prison for contempt. This followed Mr Zuma’s failure to appear before the State Capture Commission last week, despite a summons and an order from the highest …

A Rwandan opposition politician, Seif Bamporiki, living in exile in South Africa, was shot dead while delivering a bed to a client in Nyanga on Sunday afternoon. Reports say Seif Bamporiki was killed while delivering furniture to a client on Sunday afternoon in Cape Town. It is not clear whether …

A man has been sentenced to 20 years in jail for the brutal murder of a pregnant woman whose death galvanised protests in South Africa and prompted a speech by the president. The body of 28-year-old Tshegofatso Pule was found hanging from a tree last June, with multiple stab wounds. …

They are twenty seven members of the South Sudan’s president staff to contract the coronavirus, according to a presidential aide. Those affected are mainly junior staff and members of the presidential security team. But according to the statement of Ateny Wek Ateny, the spokesman of the government, the President has …

UN human rights experts say staggering levels of violence continue in South Sudan. In their latest report to the UN Human Rights Council, the experts say the last few months have seen an intensification of violence, with hundreds of civilians killed or displaced. South Sudan has a government of national …

Tanzania’s President John Magufuli has termed the Covid-19 pandemic as a “test from God” and called for three days of prayers and fasting to overcome it. It is at the funerals of his chief Secretary, John Kijazi who died of an undisclosed illness while undergoing treatment, that the Tanzanian president …

Zimbabwe has launched its Covid-19 vaccination campaign and Vice-President Constantino Chiwenga is the first to be vaccinated in a bid to reassure the public that they are safe. The campaign is being done with Sinopharm vaccine, donated by the Chinese government. only 200,000 vaccines have been delivered and 600,000 are …

A gang’s raid at a car dealership in Cape Town, South Africa, has gone viral after footage of the incident captured by CCTV cameras found its way to social media. It shows the gang entering the showroom, damaging vehicles and assaulting some staff members. Local media have identified the dealership …

The top aide of Tanzania’s president died on Tuesday night in the capital, Dodoma. The government has not disclosed the cause of his death. Chief Secretary John Kijazi died while receiving treatment at the Benjamin Mkapa Hospital, according to a statement released by the president’s office. He was also the …