The Zimbabwean First Lady has invited women in the country to join her for three days of prayer and fasting over the Covid-19 pandemic. Auxillia Mnangagwa said she would fast and pray from Thursday till Saturday for Zimbabwe to be “spared from further calamity”. She urged women to ensure their …
Read More »CAR: the opposition protests the results of the electoral commission
A coalition of 15 political parties of the opposition protests the re-election of President Touadera. The constitutional court still refuses to cancel the results of the poll as claimed by these political parties. “Touadera is declared winner with just 300,000 votes, so this is not representative, it does not give …
Read More »Doses of Oxford vaccine are expected in Kenya next month
According to the Reuters news agency, Kenya expects to receive 24 million doses of the Covid-19 vaccine developed by Astrazeneca and Oxford University next month. Health Minister Mutahi Kagwe said the vaccines were ordered through an African Union (AU) initiative. The British Foreign minister, Dominic Raab, who is in the …
Read More »Why Cristiano Ronaldo does not have tattoos on his body?
Cristiano Ronaldo is one of the few famous personnalities in the world who do not have tattoos on their body. Even if it seems strange, the Portuguese player has his reasons. Lionel Messi has the number 10 drawn on his leg and Neymar has favelas on his body. Read more: …
Read More »Burna Boy song ‘Destiny’ in Biden’s inauguration playlist
A Nigerian artist has featured in the official playlist of the new american President Joe Biden’s inauguration. Burna Boy‘s song titled Destiny will feature alongside other big international artists’ songs. The 46-song playlist was curated to reflect the diversity in the US, the Biden inauguration team said in a statement. …
Read More »Bobi Wine’s lawyers can’t see him as he remains under house arrest
Uganda’s presidential challenger Robert Kyagulanyi Ssentamu, also known as Bobi Wine has appealed to “fellow citizens of the world” to help him as he remained under house arrest with riot police and troops stationed outside his home. “We have run short of food supplies but when my wife tried to …
Read More »Madagascar: the southern region threatened by food crisis
Southern Madagascar is suffering from the worst drought in a decade and the resultant food crisis, worsened by the effects of coronavirus. In the south-east of Madagascar now, one in three people suffer from severe food insecurity, said the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs. ”In times …
Read More »Mozambique: arrestation of five suspected drug dealers
Three Nigerians, a South African and a local on suspicion of belonging to an international network of traffickers of cocaine, were arrested by the Mozambican police. According to the spokesperson for the Maputo City Police Command, Leonel Muchina, the five alleged drug traffickers were detained in the in the neighbourhood …
Read More »Jacob Zuma once again snubs anti-graft commission
South African ex-president Jacob Zuma will once again not appear on a commission probing suspicions of widespread corruption, one of his lawyers, Eric Mabuza has said. The move has sparked legal repercussions within the country’s legal fraternity. Cathleen Powell is an Associate Professor in public law at the University of …
Read More »Ellen Sirleaf does not agree with ‘wealthy countries’ in the supply of vaccine
The former Liberian President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, the co-chair of a panel reviewing the world’s response to the coronavirus pandemic, has expressed her disappointment at the way rich countries are monopolising supplies of Covid-19’s vaccines. She told an online briefing of the World Health Organization that vaccine rollout in poorer …
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