Written by Umamah Bakharia Over the weekend, videos circulating on social media showed a horrifying incident of bodies...
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Charumbira calls on African leaders to use their resources in corruption combat
By Neelam Rahim Newly-elected Pan African Parliament President, Fortune Charumbira, has appealed to African leaders to...
Tunisian President Kais Saied Expected To Approve First Draft of the New Constitution
Written by Umamah Bakharia Tunisian president Kais Saied is expected to approve the first draft of the new...
10 000 Arrested in Zimbabwe for Failure to Wear Face Masks
Over the past week, 10 000 people in Zimbabwe have been arrested for not wearing face masks in public. Meanwhile, another 16 000 were also arrested, for having flouted lockdown restrictions. The BBC reports that most of the offenders were ordered to pay an admission...
Qatar Airways will resume Egypt flights on January 18
Qatar Airways says it would restart flights to Egypt from January 18, a day after Cairo reopened airspace to the state-owned carrier as part of a thaw in relations. Flights are resuming after, Saudi Arabia, Egypt the United Arab Emirates and Bahrain agreed this month...
Rebels Attack Bangui, capital of Central African Republic
Al Jazeera reports that in the Central African Republic rebels were pushed back after they launched two attacks on the outskirts of the capital, Bangui. Prime Minister Firmin Ngrebada said in a Facebook post: “The attackers who came in large numbers to take Bangui...
100 000 doses of Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine expected to arrive in Nigeria by end of January
Nigeria to get 42 million Covid-19 vaccines to cover one-fifth of its population through the global COVAX scheme. Faisal Shuaib, head of the country's primary healthcare says the batch of vaccines would come as part of Nigeria's plan to inoculate 40% of the population...
Bushiri’s Extradition Process to Begin in March
By Naadiya Adams Malawi’s Lilongwe Magistrates Court has ordered that the formal hearing of the extradition process for self-proclaimed prophet Shepard Bushiri and his wife Mary is set to begin in March. Kicking off the extradition process, the Malawian government...
Tourist’s Body Retrieved at Victoria Falls
By Naadiya Adams Search and rescue operations at Victoria Falls in Zimbabwe have finally retrieved the body of a 40-year-old tourist who plunged to his death on New Year’s Day. Roy Dikinya, a Harare man is shown walking along the edge of the gorge in his sandals...
A young adult in Zimbabwe is using taekwondo to fight child marriage
In Zimbabwe, girls as young as 10 are forced to marry due to poverty or traditional and religious practices. A teenage taekwondo enthusiast is using the sport to give girls in an impoverished community a fighting chance at life. 17-year old Natsiraishe Maritsa a...
Liverpool’s Mohamed Salaah Donates Oxygen in Wake of Egypt Crisis
Egyptian Liverpool football star, Mohamed Salah, has donated an oxygen tank to the Basyoun Central Hospital in Egypt's southern governorate of Gharbiya "to support coronavirus patients' treatment," the local Nagrig Charity Association announced yesterday. Director...
Egypt’s Oxygen Crisis – Entire C19 ICU Dies
By Naadiya Adams - @Miss Naadiya An entire Intensive Care Unit of Covid-19 Patients has died in Egypt’s El Husseineya Central Hospital in Ash Sharqia province after the medical centre ran out of oxygen. Footage of the ward went viral when a relative of one of the...