•Sandro Ferretto and Jepng’ok at their traditional wedding ceremony, yesterday A 55-year-old Italian Catholic priest, Sandro Ferretto, has left the priesthood and married a woman from Baringo South in Kenya. Ferretto, who previously served as a Catholic parish priest in Kasiela and Mochongoi in Baringo County, held his traditional wedding ce...
•Tanzanian President Samia Suluhu Hassan (right) and late husband Tanzanian President Samia Suluhu Hassan’s husband died today while being treated in hospital in Zanzibar, an official said. Hassan became leader in 2021 after the death of authoritarian John Magufuli and swept a national election last year with 98 per cent, in a vote that was [...
•Photo (L-R): Minister of Foreign Affairs Bianca Odumegwu-Ojukwu, former President Olusegun Obasanjo, and former Sierra Leone President Ernest Koroma Nigeria has facilitated the safe return of former Sierra Leone President Ernest Koroma to the country, following more than two years of temporary relocation to Nigeria. The Minister of Foreign Af...
•A member of Algeria’s Civil Protection looks on as a digger excavates alongside a well in an attempt to rescue a 10-year-old boy Rescuers in Algeria yesterday recovered the body of a 10-year-old boy who was trapped inside a well for four days, civil protection authorities said. Efforts to rescue the boy, whom authorities identified [&he...
•Sarah Khalifa sentenced to death by hanging An Egyptian court sentenced a well-known television presenter and 11 others to death for manufacturing and trafficking narcotics in a sprawling drugs case, official media reported yesterday. The presenter, Sarah Khalifa, 39, is best known for her programme “Mission Impossible”, which dealt with issu...
•A Tobacco smoker New analysis by the World Health Organisation (WHO) has revealed that despite significant global decline, Tobacco-leaf production has continued to rise in Africa, with concerns over the health, economic, environmental and sustainable development implications of the trend. The analysis showed that global tobacco-leaf productio...
•Dead fishes on riverbanks The tide came in last week carrying thousands of dead sardines onto South Africa’s south coast and by dawn, stretches of Gqeberha’s shoreline were flecked with silver. Along Hobie and Pollock beaches, bewildered residents watched as waves deposited more fish on the sand, fuelling fears that a virus linked to devastat...
•Russian troops Members of Niger’s presidential guard, helped by Russian forces yesterday, recaptured a key military base in the capital Niamey from mutinous soldiers. Diplomatic and security sources revealed this to our correspondent, reports AFP. “The presidential guard has retaken control of the air base with the help of the Russians,” said...
•Niger soldiers Niger’s presidential guard today repelled “insurgents from within the armed forces” who tried to enter the presidential palace in Niamey, where shooting was ongoing, a security source told our correspondent. Heavy gunfire was heard in several neighbourhoods of the capital throughout the night, notably in the city centre near th...
•Late King Oyo Nyimba Kabamba Iguru Rukidi IV A Ugandan king, who has been recognised as the world’s youngest reigning monarch after ascending to the throne at the age of three, has died aged 34, the Tooro Kingdom said in a statement late yesterday. Uganda is a republic led by longtime President Yoweri Museveni but […]
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