The Guardian GAY rights campaigners expressed joy at the Botswana court of appeal’s decision to uphold a ruling that decriminalised same-sex relationships, saying the country’s judiciary had set an example for other African countries. The government had appealed a 2019 ruling that criminalising homosexuality was unconstitutional. The ruling had been hailed as a major victory for gay
Reuters ISLAMIC State claimed an attack in the heart of Uganda’s capital on Tuesday after three suicide bombers killed three people and sent MPs running for cover, in the latest in a wave of bombings. The blasts in Kampala, which forced the evacuation of parliament, shocked a nation known as a bulwark against violent Islamist
TimesLIVE SOUTH AFRICA’S Cyril Ramaphosa has declared the national flag be flown at half-mast from Wednesday as a mark of respect for late former president FW de Klerk, the presidency said on Tuesday. De Klerk died on November 11 after a long illness. He was 85. Ramaphosa’s office said: “The FW de Klerk Foundation has
BBC AT LEAST 91 people have died after a massive explosion when a fuel tanker collided with a lorry in Sierra Leone’s capital, Freetown. Fuel spilled before igniting and the resulting inferno engulfed bystanders and vehicles at a busy junction. Footage broadcast by local media outlets showed badly charred bodies in the streets surrounding the
TimesLIVE KILLER cop Nomia Rosemary Ndlovu has been given six life sentences for a string of murders she orchestrated. She was also sentenced to jail terms for defeating the ends of justice (five years), 10 years for four fraud counts, 10 years for each of the seven incitement to commit murder charges, and 10 years
Reuters THE trial of 14 people accused of plotting the assassination of Burkina Faso’s former president Thomas Sankara started on Monday, 34 years after he was gunned down in one of the most infamous killings in modern African history. Sankara — a charismatic Marxist revolutionary widely known as “Africa’s Che Guevara” — was killed in
BBC The Ethiopian army has launched co-ordinated attacks on all fronts against forces from the northern Tigray region, the rebels say. They said the government was using artillery, tanks, jets and drones in an attempt to “reinvade” the region. A senior rebel source said Tigray forces were holding their ground. The Ethiopian government has not
AFP TANZANIAN-born novelist Abdulrazak Gurnah, whose work focuses on colonialism and the trauma of the refugee experience, on Thursday won the Nobel Literature Prize. Gurnah, who grew up on the island of Zanzibar but who arrived in England as a refugee at the end of the 1960s, is the fifth African to win the Nobel
By Staff Reporter RWANDA will host this year’s edition of the Conference on Land Policy in Africa (CLPA), which will be help in its capital Kigali and will also be followed by multitudes virtually because of the impact of Covid-19. The event, running under the theme: “Land governance for safeguarding art, culture and heritage towards
BBC Rotting fruit lies beneath mighty mango trees in northern Mozambique – an area empty of the people who would usually pick them. Over the last four years, many villages and towns in Cabo Delgado have been abandoned – but in the last month, Islamist militants have been pushed back by a 1,000-strong contingent of
TimesLIVE MPHO Moerane was officially sworn in as the new City of Johannesburg Mayor on Friday. Councillors held the 28th extraordinary council meeting at the metro centre in accordance with section 29 of the Municipal Structures Act of 1998 (Act 117 of 1998). Moerane’s mayorship comes after the death of Jolidee Matongo, who died in
BBC A FORMER Rwandan army colonel convicted for his role in the massacre of some 800 000 people in the 1994 genocide has died in Mali, where he was in prison. Théoneste Bagosora, 80, was a senior figure in Rwanda’s ministry of defence at the time of the killings. A UN-backed criminal tribunal sentenced him to
Reuters RWANDAN President Paul Kagame said the country cannot stay forever in Mozambique’s Cabo Delgado province, where allied Rwandan and Mozambican troops have been recapturing areas from Islamist militants since July. “As much as we cannot be here forever, I think the problem we are dealing with, with our friends in Mozambique, cannot stay here forever
BBC Africa THREE suspects behind the abduction of more than 100 students in the Nigerian state of Kaduna state have been arrested, police say. They are among 50 suspects believed to be members of different gangs operating in north-west and central Nigeria. Police spokesman Frank Mba said security forces were on the trail of 22
By Staff Reporter THE Economic Commission for Africa (ECA) and the International Chamber of Commerce (ICC) have jointly launched Centres of Entrepreneurship in Africa, under the theme, ‘Creating Livelihoods for Inclusion’. With strategic locations across Africa, the ECA – ICC Centres of Entrepreneurship will work with various stakeholders, including businesses, chambers of commerce, academic institutions,
BBC THE former president of Algeria, Abdelaziz Bouteflika, has died after a long illness at the age of 84. Bouteflika led the country for almost two decades, stepping down in 2019 after his bid for a fifth term in office led to massive street protests. He played a key role in Algeria’s war of independence
TimesLIVE The Constitutional Court on Friday dismissed former president Jacob Zuma’s application to rescind the court’s earlier judgment, which sentenced him to 15 months’ imprisonment for contempt of court. The country’s apex court had sentenced Zuma in June for failure to comply with an order the court passed in January ordering the former president to
TimesLive The former police officer on trial for allegedly murdering and plotting to kill relatives to cash in life insurance policies has been described by former colleagues as a regular gambler who often bought them lunch. Nomia Rosemary Ndlovu, who is facing six charges of murder, and others including fraud and attempted murder, was apparently
By Staff Reporter REMITTANCES to African countries are expected to decrease by 5,4 percent from US$44 billion in 2020 to a projected total of US$41 billion in 2021 due to the effects of Covid 19 pandemic, according to findings of Continental Migration Report for 2021. The report, titled “African regional review of implementation of the
By Staff Reporter CYBERCRIME is one of the top risk factors likely to jeopardize Africa’s economy especially at this time when the continent is transitioning to e-commerce under the Africa Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA), according to panelists at a Book Talk hosted by the Economic Commission for Africa (ECA) recently. The “Book Talk” was
