AllAfrica.com is reporting black girls in Pretoria, South Africa are protesting rules about hair styles allowed at school, which they say ban natural hairstyles worn by black students. The article states: “Tears flowed as bl...
BBC Africa is reporting Nigerian Islamist group Boko Haram has released a video showing some of the 276 school girls they abducted from the northern town of Chibok in 2014. The article states: “Some 50 girls are shown with a...
Deborah Bloom of CNN Africa is reporting 60,000 people, mostly women and children, are fleeing South Sudan into neighboring countries to escape violence. Reportedly 111 people were killed over the weekend in clashes outside of Jub...
MacDonald Dzirutwe of Reuters Africa is reporting a Zimbabwean court has dismissed charges against Evan Mawarire, a religious leader accused of trying to overthrow the government through an internet campaign that inspired rare pro...
The Guardian, which has been offering live coverage of the Oscar Pistorius trial, is reporting the convicted murderer of girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp was sentenced to six years in prison. Once again, Judge Thokozile Masipa failed to...
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...
