Reuters Africa is reporting at least six people were killed when gunmen sprayed two buses with bullets on Friday in Kenya’s Mandera county on the border with Somalia, a regional official said. Mandera County Commissioner Fre...
Everton Fox of Al Jazeera is reporting after many days of heavy and steady rain, at least 10 people are dead in the south of Ghana. The streets of Accra have been left under water after the torrential downpours caused widespread f...
BBC Africa is reporting violence has broken out in and around Pretoria after African National Congress (ANC) announced its mayoral candidate. The author writes: “A government statement calling for calm said police officers &...
BBC News is reporting a Kenyan High Court has dismissed a case challenging the legality of anal tests as proof of homosexuality. The author writes: “Two men, who say Kenyan police forced them to undergo the procedure to prov...
Reuters Africa is reporting an Egyptian court on Saturday sought the death penalty for three journalists and three others charged with endangering national security by leaking state secrets and documents to Qatar. The final ruling...
CNN is reporting influential Congo music star Jules Papa Wemba has passed away, after collapsing on stage during a performance Saturday night at the Urban Music Festival in Ivory Coast. Andreas Preuss of CNN writes: “Papa We...
Zandi Shabalala of Reuters Africa is reporting disgraced Paralympic Gold Medalist Oscar Pistorius will be sentenced in June for the 2013 murder of his girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp, after his original conviction was upgraded from the...
South African Fashion Week has officially kicked off and the blogosphere is loving the creations by designers like Gert-Johan Coetzee, Clive Rundle, Yasmin Furmi and Felipe Mazibuko. Ntombenhle Shezi of the Sunday Times chose Cliv...
Nqobile Dludla of Reuters Africa is reporting South African president Jacob Zuma has been ordered by South Africa’s constitutional court to reimburse the state $16 million spent upgrading his private home. Dludla writes: ...
Al Jazeera is reporting Nigerian troops have freed more than 800 hostages being held by Boko Haram across the country’s northeast, the army said. The author writes: “The ‘clearance operation’ on Tuesday saw...
