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A corruption case against South African former President Jacob Zuma and French defence company Thales over a $2bn state arms deal will start in May, according to a South Africa court. Mr Zuma faces 16 charges , including fraud, racketeering and money laundering – all of which he denies. Mr …

So far Spotify is only available in South Africa and North African states, but the music streaming service has announced it will launch in another 39 countries on the continent in the coming days. They are: Angola, Benin, Botswana, Burkina Faso, Burundi, Capo Verde, Cameroon, Chad, Comoros, Djibouti, Equatorial Guinea, …

Authorities in Senegal announced fighting misinformation over covid-19 vaccines and launched a vaccinaton campaign this Tuesday. In order to serve as an example and reassure the public on the safety of the vaccines, Senegal’s Health Minister Abdoulaye Diouf Sarr was first in line to be vaccinated. The country in fact …

The commission probing widespread state corruption when Jacob Zuma was president of South Africa, on Monday requested the Supreme Court to hand down a two year jail time for Zuma over his refusal to testify. Since the creation of the commission in 2018, Jacob Zuma already implicated by some forty …

As reported by The Guardian Post, three students were injured in Cameroon’s South-West region after a stampede broke out following a rumoured Covid-19 vaccination campaign. The students from the city of Kumba are currently being observed by medics, the newspaper adds. “The injuries were recorded in the wake of a …

A special plane carrying a consignment of Ebola vaccine landed in Guinea on Monday night. The vaccination roll-out which was to begin on Monday has been postponed due to bad weather conditions. In fact, a dust storm in the Sahara on Sunday had forced the aircraft off course and diverted …

Tanzanian president John Magufuli is finally acknowledging that his country has a coronavirus problem after claiming for months that the disease had been defeated by prayer. The president’s comments came days after the country mourned the death of one of its highest-profile politicians, the vice president of the semi-autonomous island …

Findings of a survey in Nigeria suggest that rates of infection from Covid-19 in the country are much higher than previously reported. The results indicate that one in five of those tested in the states of Lagos, Enugu and Nasarawa have been infected. In the country’s largest city, Lagos, as …

At a court in Johannesburg, the boyfriend of a South African woman, whose murder galvanised protests against violence against women in the country, has been charged with her murder. The body of Tshegofatso Pule a young woman of 28-years-old was found hanging from a tree last June, with multiple stab …

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 …