Updated by Faith Barbara Namagembe at 1050 EAT on Thursday 16th March 2023. A corruption watchdog group said in a preliminary report that South African President Cyril Ramaphosa was not involved in a cover-up concerning the theft of a large amount of cash he had stuffed into a sofa at his farmhouse. Allegations of a…
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Blinken to Ethiopia & Niger; VP Harris to Ghana, Tanzania, Zambia
Secretary of State Anthony Blinken will visit Addis Ababa on March 14 and 15 to hold talks with the Ethiopian government and leaders of the Tigrayan forces to discuss the fragile peace process that has ended the two-year conflict which claimed thousands of lives. The trip, which also includes a stopover in Niger, is one…
South Sudan’s president calls on refugees to return home
South Sudan’s President Salva Kiir has urged the country’s more than 2 million refugees to return home in his first meeting with displaced people since civil war erupted almost a decade ago. Kiir’s appeal on Wednesday came as the country prepares to hold its first elections since gaining independence in 2011. South Sudan’s elections are…
Burkina Faso buries exhumed remains of murdered ex-leader Sankara
Burkina Faso’s former President Thomas Sankara, was reburied Thursday, eight years after his body was exhumed as part of an investigation. Sankara’s body, and those of the 12 people who died with him, were reburied at the site of his assassination, which has since become a memorial for Sankara featuring a life-size statue of the…
Kabaka Chwa’s Grandson Daniel Saava Ssemwanga passes on at 78
By E K Benj – Updated at 7:30 EAT on Thursday 16th February 2023 WAKISO – Daniel Saava Ssemwanga Hanington, grandson of Kabaka Daudi Chwa on Tuesday night passed on at Le Memorial hospital along Kigo road. His body is lying at Mengo Hospital awaiting a postmortem report. According to unconfirmed sources, Daniel could have…
Over 74 migrants presumed dead in shipwreck off Libyan coast
By Jerry Omondi & E KBenj At least 74 migrants are reported missing and presumed dead following a tragic shipwreck off the Libyan coast on Tuesday, the United Nation’s International Organization for Migration (IOM) said on Wednesday. IOM in a statement said the boat was carrying around 80 people at the time of the incident,…
Equatorial Guinea confirms first-ever Marburg virus disease outbreak
Equatorial Guinea on Monday confirmed its first-ever outbreak of Marburg virus disease, after preliminary tests carried out following the deaths of at least nine people in the country’s western Kie Ntem Province turned out positive for the viral hemorrhagic fever. The World Health Organization (WHO) confirmed the outbreak. The small Central African country quarantined more than…
South Africa declares state of national disaster over floods
South African President Cyril Ramaphosa has declared a national state of disaster over the current floods that have hit parts of the country. According to media reports, seven of the country’s nine provinces are struggling to contain the devastating impacts of floods following days of heavy rainfall. In a statement on Tuesday, the presidency said…
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