•Scene of the accident At least 21 people were killed when two minibus taxis and an SUV collided on a highway in South Africa’s Western Cape province, a government road safety partnership said today. The crash happened between Leeu-Gamka and Prince Albert, about 380 kilometres (236 miles) northeast of Cape Town, the Road Traffic Management [&h...
•Tinubu and South Africa’s President Cyril Ramaphosa There has been outrage among Nigerians following the killing of two Nigerian nationals, Bishop Michael Fakunle and James Nwankwo, in separate incidents in South Africa. Fakunle, an indigene of Iye in the Ilejemeje Local Government Area of Ekiti State, was allegedly shot dead by unknown...
•General Abdourahamane Tiani Niger’s junta chief appointed a new chief of staff, state TV reported yesterday, after a thwarted army mutiny last month shook his grip on power. Supporters of the military government put down the attempted uprising with the help of Russian mercenaries, but not before intense fighting in the capital. Disgruntled so...
Six Nigerian nationals accused of defrauding more than 100 women in the United States through online romance scams have been extradited from South Africa to the US. According to a post on X today by the South African Police Service, the suspects, who were arrested in South Africa in 2021, are alleged to be members […]
•Senate President Godswill Akpabio and Speaker House of Representatives, Tajudeen Abbas  The National Assembly has suspended all official visits to South Africa and resolved to boycott legislative activities hosted or organised by the Southern African country until further notice, in response to continuing reports of xenophobic attacks and hos...
•Keyan President William Ruto Kenya has warned foreign workers they had 90 days to regularise their status as it sought to backtrack from a panic triggered by President William Ruto’s order to close immigrant-owned small businesses. As the regional powerhouse, Kenya attracts migrants from across the East African Community (EAC), whose members ...
•South African flag South Africa’s economy shrank in the second quarter of 2026, snapping a nearly two-year growth streak as the war in Iran weighed on domestic demand, the national statistics agency said today. The contraction comes less than two months before local government elections, putting the country’s sluggish economy squarely in the ...
•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...
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