•Late Benjamin Kiplagat A Kenyan court today sentenced two men to 35 years in prison for murdering Ugandan Olympic athlete Benjamin Kiplagat last year. After a nine-month trial, the High Court in the northwestern city of Eldoret last week found Peter Ushuru Khalumi, 30, and David Ekai Lokere, 25, guilty of stabbing the 34-year-old steeplechase...
•Baltasar Engonga The Government of Equatorial Guinea has restricted its citizens from downloading and sharing multimedia files using mobile data on WhatsApp. This decision was followed by the guidelines that the country’s government gave to telecommunications operators when it urged them to implement measures to restrict access to inappropria...
•Baltasar Engonga The Director General, National Financial Investigation Agency in Equatorial Guinea, Baltasar Engonga, has been arrested for allegedly recording over 400 sextapes of the wives of notable people in the country. The scandal emerged in the course of a fraud investigation against the 54-year-old Economist which resulted in the sea...
•Defeated Botswana President Mokgweetsi Masisi Botswana President Mokgweetsi Masisi said today he would “step aside” after his party suffered a resounding defeat in general elections, according to preliminary tallies. “I wish to congratulate the opposition on their victory and concede the election,” Masisi told reporters at a press conference,...
•Chadian soldiers Chad’s military has been accused of killing “scores” of fishermen in Nigeria while targeting jihadists, days after 40 died in a Boko Haram attack on a military base in Chad, fishermen and anti-jihadist militia told our correspondent. The Chadian army launched an airstrike pummelling Tilma island in Kukawa district on the Nige...
•Chad junta leader Mahamat Idriss Deby Itno Chadian President Mahamat Idriss Deby Itno is “personally” leading an army counter-offensive against Boko Haram after a deadly attack by the jihadist group on a military garrison, the presidency said today. Jihadists killed around 40 people during a late Sunday to Monday raid on the base in the [&hel...
•Winner Miss Universe Nigeria 2024, Chidimma Adetshina South Africa is stripping a would-be Miss South Africa contestant, who was at the centre of a row over her nationality, of her national identity papers, the government said. Chidimma Adetshina, 23, withdrew from the Miss South Africa pageant in August amid a torrent of abuse over allegatio...
•Late Uganda’s Benjamin Kiplagat Two Kenyan men were found guilty today of murdering Ugandan Olympic distance runner Benjamin Kiplagat, found stabbed to death in the East African country’s north-west on New Year’s Eve. Peter Ushuru Khalumi and David Ekai Lokere were convicted of murdering the 34-year-old Olympian by Eldoret High Court, after a...
•Ghana President Nana Akufo-Addo Ghana’s parliament adjourned indefinitely yesterday following a legal dispute over the speaker’s decision to declare four parliamentary seats vacant. The decision, announced by speaker Alban Bagbin, effectively halts all legislative activity less than two months before the country’s general elections and could ...
•Kenya’s President William Ruto Kenya’s High Court ruled today that a controversial housing levy introduced last year as part of measures to try to shore up public finances was lawful. The verdict means the government of President William Ruto can continue with the scheme, after a previous court ruling had declared it illegal in November [&hel...
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