The Group Chief Executive Officer of Zimbabwe Bank (ZB) Financial Holdings Group, Ronald Mutandagayi has taken a leave of absence after a video of him assaulting his wife went viral on social media. The footage which is said to have been reportedly taken by his 16-year-old daughter, shows Mutandagayi chasing his estranged …
Read More »Same-sex marriage will never happen during my tenure – Ghanaian president, Nana Akufo-Addo says
The president of Ghana, Nana Akufo-Addo has declared that same-sex marriage will never happen during his tenure. He made this declaration at the installation and enthronement of a program of an Anglican Archbishop held in Mampong on Saturday February 27. In his words ”I have said this before and …
Read More »Four soldiers killed by roadside bomb in Niger
Four soldiers were killed and eight others seriously injured by a roadside bomb in southeastern Niger, a region hit by jihadist attacks, the government said. The troops were pursuing “terrorists” on Monday following an attack the previous day on a military position in Chetima Wangou in the Diffa region, the …
Read More »Rwandan capital back under full virus lockdown
Rwanda’s capital Kigali was back under total lockdown on Tuesday after a surge in coronavirus cases in a country that has adopted some of Africa’s toughest anti-Covid measures. President Paul Kagame’s government announced the measures late Monday after a cabinet meeting, banning “unnecessary movements” in the capital. Rwanda imposed one …
Read More »Guinea’s Conde pushes ahead with government after disputed election
Guinean President Alpha Conde has pushed ahead with a new government after fiercely disputed elections last October that claimed dozens of lives. The 82-year-old leader named 16 new ministers, according to a communique read on state TV on Tuesday night, as part of an expected reshuffle. Conde won a violently …
Read More »Historic figure who announced Mugabe coup dies of Covid
Zimbabwe’s foreign affairs minister, Sibusiso Moyo, who gained world prominence for announcing the 2017 coup that ousted Robert Mugabe, died from coronavirus on Wednesday, the government said. Moyo, 61, was the face of the November 18, 2017, coup which toppled the country’s autocratic president and replaced him with Emmerson Mnangagwa. …
Read More »Why Africa is recording low deaths from coronavirus – Report
Africa’s experience with several infectious diseases and dominance of the younger population may be the reason the continent is having a lower mortality rate in the second wave of coronavirus, World Economic Forum report says. The report, which draws on opinions of hundreds of executives and academics associated with the …
Read More »Uganda’s Bobi Wine urges lifting of ‘house arrest’
Ugandan opposition leader Bobi Wine on Sunday urged the international community to demand he be released from “house arrest” after a disputed election returned President Yoweri Museveni to the office for a sixth term. The former ragga singer turned lawmaker, who came second in the presidential election, has not left …
Read More »At least 83 killed in fighting in Sudan’s Darfur: medics
More than 80 people have been killed in two days of ongoing clashes in Sudan’s restive Darfur, doctors said Sunday, just over two weeks since a long-running peacekeeping mission ended operations. The violence is the most significant fighting reported since the signing of a peace agreement in October, which observers …
Read More »Malawi imposes first lockdown measures as virus flares
Malawi is set to roll out a first set of anti-coronavirus restrictions this week, the president said, after overruling a court ban on lockdown measures to tackle a surge in cases. Unlike the rest of the continent, daily life had been unfolding normally in the southern African country since its …
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