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. …
Read More »Okonjo-Iweala starts work as World Trade Organization ruler
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 …
Read More »Restrictions eased in South Africa as covid cases decline
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 …
Read More »At least ten killed in a militia attack in DRC
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 …
Read More »Togo bribe case to go ahead in France
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 …
Read More »Deputy Sonko to face rape charge after immunity lifted
Lawmakers in Senegal have voted to lift the immunity of leading opposition MP Ousmane Sonko, who has been accused of rape, allegations he denies. Mr Sonko finished third in the 2019 presidential elections, and is considered a strong future presidential contender in the West African state, the AFP news agency …
Read More »Freddie Figgers: this abandoned baby turned millionaire
His history is particularly astonishing. Figgers was abandoned as a baby next to garbage cans in the Florida countryside. Freddie Figgers currently runs a company worth $ 62 million. A passerby found him alone and in distress and called the police. The child was hospitalized with minor injuries for two …
Read More »Cameroonian soldiers accused of raping women during revenge raid
Human Rights Watch (HRW) says it has gathered evidence of a revenge attack nearly a year ago by Cameroonian soldiers on a village where they raped at least 20 women. The raid on Ebam in the Anglophone South-West region, an area where separatists are fighting for an independent state of …
Read More »Two cases of polio detected in Cameroon
Cameroon has launched an awareness campaign among the population after two cases of polio were detected in Yaounde, health officials said Thursday. In a statement on Monday, the health minister Manaouda Malachie said two cases of type 2 poliovirus were detected in environmental samples in the district of the Cité …
Read More »Tigray crisis: $100 million needed to fight hunger
An urgent appeal for more than $ 100 million has been launched by the World Food Program to alleviate severe shortages in Ethiopia’s northern region of Tigray. The UN agency says three million people about half of Tigray’s population need food aid. Much of the region has remained cut off …
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