Category: Africa

Sat 20 Apr 2019: TIME Magazine has published its annual Most Influential People list for 2019, naming South African president Cyril Ramaphosa and sports star Caster Semenya among the world’s top influencers. TIME has positioned its list as an assortment of people who are shaping and influencing the world around them. “It is a community […]

Sat 20 Apr 2019: Five Africans have been listed on Time magazine’s annual list of the 100 most influential people globally. After a first year in office marked by sweeping changes, Abiy Ahmed, prime minister of Ethiopia, has seen his stock and influence rapidly grow. Poignantly, Abiy’s tribute on the list was penned by Feyisa Lilesa, the Ethiopian marathoner who famously protested against the […]

Fri 19 Apr 2019: Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari signed the Minimum Wage Repeal and Re-Enactment Act, 2019 into law, senior special assistant to the president on National Assembly Matters (Senate), Senator Ita Enang confirmed Thursday. The Act makes it compulsory for employers in Nigeria to pay wages of N30,000 (US$98) monthly, Enang explained to State House correspondents in the capital Abuja. “It also gives […]

Fri 19 Apr 2019: Thirteen people were killed in a south-eastern province of South Africa during an Easter service after a church wall collapsed on them late on Thursday following days of heavy rains and strong winds, emergency services said on Friday. At least 29 people with injuries ranging from serious to minor were taken […]

Fri 19 Apr 2019: BAMAKO (Reuters) – Mali’s prime minister and his whole government resigned on Thursday, four weeks after a massacre of some 160 Fulani herders by an ethnic vigilante group shocked the nation. “The President accepts the resignation of the prime minister and that of the members of government,” a statement from President […]

Fri 19 Apr 2019: Botswana has unveiled a blue diamond whose value could outstrip that of the storied Hope Diamond: the 20.46-carat, close-to-flawless Okavango Blue. The diamond was presented in Gaborone, Botswana by the state-owned Okavango Diamond Company. Found as a 41.11-carat rough stone in the Orapa mine operated by the producer Debswana, the jewel is the […]

Wed 17 Apr 2019: KHARTOUM (Reuters) – Deposed former Sudanese president Omar al-Bashir has been moved to Kobar prison in Khartoum from the presidential residence, family sources said on Wednesday, and a prison source said he was being held under tight security in solitary confinement. Sudan’s military ousted Bashir after weeks of mass protests that […]