•Nigeria and Ethiopia flags The federal government has raised the alarm over the deaths of 16 Nigerians who reportedly suffered health complications while transiting through Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, this year, warning travellers with underlying medical conditions to exercise caution. The Ministry of Foreign Affairs, in a travel advisory issued y...
•President Cyril Ramaphosa and Ambassador Femi Fani-Kayode South Africa and Nigeria have been drawn into a fresh diplomatic controversy after the spokesperson to President Cyril Ramaphosa accused Nigeria’s High Commission of lying over claims that the South African leader intervened in the omission of Ambassador Femi Fani-Kayode’s speech from ...
•Election in South Sudan South Sudan, the world’s newest country, today postponed its first national elections from December to February amid growing ethnic and political battles. The legislative and presidential elections had been scheduled for December 22, after already having been delayed several times, reports AFP. The United Nations had w...
•Prof Patrick Lumumba A renowned Kenyan scholar and statesman, Prof. PLO Lumumba, has warned that Africa risks betraying its Pan-African ideals if countries continue to treat fellow Africans as foreigners across colonial borders. Lumumba disclosed this while delivering a keynote address titled, ‘Africa Must Not Become Foreign to Itself: Xenoph...
•President John Dramani Mahama of Ghana (left) President John Dramani Mahama of the Republic of Ghana has received Letters of Credence from the 11 newly appointed Ambassadors and High Commissioners. Diplomats from South Africa, Nigeria, India, Thailand, Lebanon, Australia, Switzerland, the Netherlands, Finland, Slovakia and Sweden presented th...
•Self-proclaimed pastor Paul Mackenzie (C) sits with his co-accused in court, today A self-proclaimed Kenyan preacher was sentenced to 200 years in prison today for the murder of 190 children and one adult in an infamous starvation cult. Hundreds of bodies have been discovered since 2023 at the sect’s base near the coastal resort of […...
•NiDCOM chairman, Abike Dabiri-Erewa The Nigerians in Diaspora Commission has raised concerns that 57 Nigerian professionals working in four Nigerian-origin banks in The Gambia could lose their jobs following a directive by the country’s central bank to replace certain foreign employees with Gambian nationals. The Chairman of NiDCOM, Abike Dab...
•Health care workers Africa’s latest Ebola outbreak has killed more than 5,300 people, the vast majority of them in the Democratic Republic of Congo, according to the continent’s top health agency. In mid-May, the DRC declared its 17th Ebola outbreak, a deadly disease transmitted through contact with bodily fluids that causes haemorrhagic feve...
•A drone strike At least 14 people, including children, were killed in several drone strikes yesterday at a camp for displaced people in Ethiopia’s Amhara region, three witnesses told our correspondent today. “Four drone strikes were carried out one after another. We have buried 14 people at the IDP centre. Two more died while receiving [&hell...
•Bill Gates 625 faith leaders from more than 20 African countries accuse AGRA-backed agricultural model of failing to curb hunger, call for funding shift to smallholder farmers African faith leaders have called on the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation to pay reparations for the alleged ecological and social damage caused by two decades of fu...
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