BBC ZAMBIA’S President Edgar Lungu has ordered the deployment of the military to suppress electoral violence ahead of the 12 August general elections – amid criticism by the opposition and other groups. “I have allowed the Zambia Army, Zambia Air Force and Zambia National Service to help the Zambia Police in dealing with the security
BBC WHEN the Nigerian government suddenly banned access to foreign exchange for textile import companies in March 2019, Moses Awa* felt stuck. His business – importing woven shoes from Guangzhou, China, to sell in the northern city of Kano and his home state of Abia, further south – had been suffering along with the country’s
TimesLive KWAZULU-NATAL premier Sihle Zikalala has lauded the department of correctional services for allowing former president Jacob Zuma to attend his late brother’s funeral in Nkandla. Michael Zuma, 77, died on July 11 after battling an illness for almost seven years. His body arrived in a hearse at his KwaNxamalala home on Thursday morning and was
Reuters A South African court granted former President Jacob Zuma’s request for a delay in his arms deal corruption trial on Tuesday, and adjourned proceedings for three weeks. Zuma this month started a 15-month sentence for contempt of court, a ruling that triggered some of the worst unrest of the post-apartheid era. He is also
By Staff Reporter AFRICAN countries have agreed that the continent will need to institute far reaching state-level actions Africa are central in order to build forward better from the economic effects of the Covid 19 pandemic. This came out during deliberations on Voluntary Local Reviews (VLRs), hosted by United Nations Economic Commission for Africa (ECA)
Reuters PRIME MINISTER Abiy Ahmed’s Prosperity Party won the most seats in Ethiopia’s parliamentary election, the election board said on Saturday, a victory that assures him another term in office. Abiy’s party won 410 of 436 parliamentary seats, election board deputy chairperson Woubshet Ayele announced in the capital Addis Ababa. Chairperson Birtukan Mideksa said the
TimesLIVE A POLICE officer was taken to hospital in the early hours of Sunday with gunshot wounds after a violent mob turned on police officers who responded to looting in Alexandra, Johannesburg. Two other police officers were injured when they responded to reports that a group of people from Alexandra were targeting businesses and had
TimesLIVE POLICE have had their hands full since former president Jacob Zuma’s incarceration this week. Crowds took to the streets in protest. The N3 near Mooi River remained closed on Saturday morning after vehicles, including a tanker and a car carrier, were set alight on Friday night. Thania Dhoogra, the operations manager of the N3
BusinessLIVE FORMER South Africa president Jacob Zuma has lost his bid in the Pietermaritzburg high court for a stay of the warrant of execution for his arrest. Zuma launched the application on Tuesday‚ a day before the deadline set by the Constitutional Court for the police to arrest him to begin serving 15 months in
ANA THE proposal for an open national dialogue in eSwatini is highly welcomed as a way forward towards finding a long-lasting solution, the Southern African Development Community (SADC) said on Tuesday. The chairperson of the SADC Organ Troika on Politics, Defence and Security, Botswana’s President Mokgweetsi Masisi, said a team of ministers will be sent
Reuters ABOUT 150 students are missing after armed men raided a boarding school in Nigeria’s Kaduna state, a parent and an administrator said on Monday, and police said they were in hot pursuit alongside military personnel. The attack on the Bethel Baptist High School is the 10th mass school kidnapping since December in northwest Nigeria,
TimesLIVE A PENNILESS old man with health issues who, with hindsight, had listened to bad legal advice. That is the picture advocate Dali Mpofu painted of his client, former president Jacob Zuma, when he argued before Pietermaritzburg high court judge Jerome Mnguni Tuesday for an order that the warrant of arrest, signed by the Constitutional
BBC News GUNMEN have abducted babies, nurses and security guards from a hospital in north-west Nigeria, the police say. The exact number of those taken in the city of Zaria isn’t clear. Local bandits carried out simultaneous attacks on a police station and the National Tuberculosis and Leprosy Centre, before escaping into a forest. A
BBC DOZENS of people have died in Canada amid an unprecedented heatwave that has smashed temperature records. Police in the Vancouver area have responded to more than 130 sudden deaths since Friday. Most were elderly or had underlying health conditions. They said the heat was a contributing factor in many cases. On Tuesday, Canada recorded
TimesLive Former finance minister Trevor Manuel is the latest prominent South African to question the push to amend section 25 of the constitution to provide for expropriation of land without compensation. Manuel argues that according to research, SA is well on its way to meeting its land reform targets set by the National Development Plan
BBC A FORMER political prisoner who went into exile in the US, Birtukan Mideksa is now centre-stage in Ethiopia as she oversees the country’s first parliamentary election since Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed took office in 2018 on a pledge to end decades of authoritarian rule. Recommending Ms Birtukan, 47, to the all-important post of chairperson
BBC SIX Chinese nationals who ran out of a court in Tanzania after their economic sabotage charges were dropped have sparked reactions online. The charges were dropped after the director of prosecutions told the magistrate in a Dar es Salaam court that he had no intention of proceeding with the case, the privately owned Mwananchi
Reuters ZAMBIA’S former president Kenneth Kaunda, 97, is being treated for pneumonia at a military hospital in the capital Lusaka, his office said on Tuesday. Kaunda ruled Zambia from 1964, when the southern African nation won its independence from Britain, until 1991. He is among the continent’s few surviving liberation heroes. “He has had a
Reuters IVORY COAST is preparing for the return of former President Laurent Gbagbo on Thursday, a move that his supporters and the government hope will help ease tensions that have hung over the country since his arrest a decade ago. Supporters have been buying party memorabilia such as scarves, pouches and garments bearing Gbagbo’s image
Anadolu News Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni released a long-awaited list of new Cabinet ministers and ministers of state late Tuesday. Museveni surprised Ugandans by appointing women to the major key posts of vice president and prime minister. The list has come after the country has gone more than three weeks without a cabinet after Museveni
