•President Hakainde Hichilema (C) of Zambia Zambian President Hakainde Hichilema has won a second term, according to election results released today that gave him a convincing victory in polls marred by claims of irregularities and a raid on the opposition. While voting in Thursday’s election in the copper-rich southern African nation was larg...
The Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) Commission has announced a $65,000 cash prize for the top three winners of its second ECOWAS Startup Awards, as it seeks to strengthen innovation, digital transformation and market access across the region. The Commission’s Acting Director, Private Sector and Industry, Peter Oluonye, discl...
•Nigerian returnees from South Africa A new batch of 83 Nigerian nationals will arrive at the Murtala Mohammed International Airport, Lagos, tomorrow, Wednesday, August 19, 2026, via South African Airways, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs has announced. In a statement signed by the ministry’s spokesperson, Kimiebi Imomotimi Ebienfa, the returne...
•EU flags The European Commission has announced €2.3 million in emergency humanitarian funding for Nigeria, Cameroon, the Central African Republic and Chad to curb the cholera outbreak. This was disclosed in a statement today, Monday, 17 August 2026, issued by Mr Modestus Chukwulaka, Press and Information Officer at the EU delegation to Nigeri...
•Ebola outbreak An Ebola outbreak has now killed 2,325 people in the Democratic Republic of Congo, making it the country’s deadliest outbreak of the virus, according to government figures released today. The United Nations says that the Ebola outbreak “is the fastest-growing on record” and is killing a victim every 30 minutes in the DRC, [&hel...
•Kevin Rideout makes preflight checks before transporting a team from Hope Springs International in Niger An American Christian missionary, Kevin Rideout, has regained his freedom after spending more than nine months in captivity following his abduction in Niger, his organisation, SIM International, has said. According to BBC today, the Rideou...
•Ebola outbreak An Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) has killed 2,011 people out of 4,381 confirmed cases of the virus, Congolese officials said today. The latest toll puts it close behind the DRC’s deadliest Ebola outbreak in 2018 to 2020, when nearly 2,300 people died out of 3,500 recorded cases, reports […]
•Nigeria and South Africa flags The deputy spokesman of the House of Representatives, Philip Agbese, says Nigeria’s diplomatic efforts with South Africa over xenophobic attacks are “making good impacts”. Agbese said this last night on Channels Television. When asked if Nigeria should have taken stricter measures over the attacks on the country...
•The convicts, Kingsley Ndifon and Emmanuel Akong Two Nigerians have been sentenced to 20 years’ imprisonment each by a Ghanaian court for trafficking fellow Nigerians into Ghana under the guise of offering them jobs before allegedly forcing them into cybercrime. The suspects, Kingsley Ndifon, 29, and Emmanuel Akong, 25, were found guilty of h...
•Prof Patrick Lumumba Renowned Kenyan scholar and Pan-Africanist, Prof. Patrick Lumumba, today, urged the federal government to dismantle visa barriers hindering the movement of Africans across the continent, saying such restrictions undermine regional integration, investment and the objectives of the African Continental Free Trade Area, AfCFT...
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