•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...
•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...
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