Rescuers are trying to reach at least 30 miners in Zimbabwe trapped underground after a shaft in an outdated gold mine collapsed. Relatives of those trapped have been holding vigil since late Wednesday, when the accident occurred in the town of Bindura, well north of the capital, Harare. The French news agency Agence France-Presse reports…
Egyptian authorities have arrested eight people following clashes that erupted on Wednesday evening between Muslims and Coptic Christians in the Minya governorate, reported local and foreign media on Thursday. The Egyptian authorities have not yet commented on the media reports. The British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) reported on Thursday that the authorities in Egypt are detaining a number…
Umm Rakouba camp was meant to house 5,000 people, but UN refugee agency says it is now at almost double that capacity. A refugee camp housing Ethiopian refugees in a remote part of neighbouring Sudan is already over capacity, the United Nations’s refugee agency has said. The Umm Rakouba camp – meant to house 5,000…
Shortages have become ‘’very critical’’ in Ethiopia’s embattled northern region of Tigray, the United Nations says. The region of 6 million people is still sealed off as it faces threats by Ethiopian federal forces. Martin Plaut is a writer and an expert on Ethiopia. He says what is ‘’ much more likely is that the…
Sodiq Oyeleke The President of the African Development Bank, Dr Akinwumi Adesina, has warned against misinformation, stating that a former Nigerian Head of State, Yakubu Gowon, is a man of integrity. He tweeted this after a British lawmaker, Tom Tugendhat, accused Gowon of “stealing half of Nigeria’s Central Bank”. Tugendhat spoke on Monday during a…
By Jide Oluwajuyitan I sympathise with Lai Mohammed, our very resourceful Minister of Information but a victim of President Buhari’s self-inflicted crisis of legitimacy. Transiting from a creative party spokesman that battled PDP in a fiercely fought 2015 election, to a government information minister, it was obvious he would be haunted by his past. And…
In statement hours after an ultimatum for TPLF to surrender expired, the prime minister asked residents in capital Mekelle to ‘stay indoors’. The Ethiopian military will begin the “final phase” of an offensive in the northern Tigray region, Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed has said in a statement, hours after an ultimatum for the Tigrayan forces…
There was an uproar on the floor of the Senate yesterday as senators debated a motion seeking to compensate states wracked by the violence associated with the recent #ENDSARS protests. The Senate, after the debate asked the federal government to reserve one percent of VAT proceeds for Lagos and other states badly hit by the…
The road freight industry is under siege as the country has seen a spike in attacks on trucks. President Cyril Ramaphosa has expressed concern over the violence. President Ramaphosa has become the latest to condemn the recent arson attacks on trucks in South Africa. The road freight industry has been experiencing a wave of violence and…
Cape Town – The killing of five people near the Nyanga taxi rank brought the total number of taxi-related murders in the Western Cape to 92 since the start of the calendar year, with attempted murders and injuries at 51 over the same period. This is according to Transport MEC Bonginkosi Madikizela after the shooting also left…