Sitabile Dewa was content with her sex life when she was married, but after her divorce, she found her prospects for erotic pleasure rather bleak. In socially conservative Zimbabwe, divorced women and single mothers are often cast as undesirable partners for men, and in her frustration Dewa decided she wanted to use sex toys. The problem is sex toys are… Read More

Isabel dos Santos, the daughter of Angola’s late former president, embezzled 52 million euros from Angola’s national oil company, according to a Dutch court. She diverted the money to a Dutch company that she owned with her husband, Exem Energy BV, the Chamber of Companies, a body attached to the Amsterdam Court of Appeal, concluded in a decision dated 15… Read More

Sierra Leonean police announced on Sunday evening that they had used tear gas canisters to disperse opposition supporters in Freetown, the day after the presidential election, which passed off generally peacefully and is still being counted. Samura Kamara, the main opponent of incumbent president Julius Maada Bio in the election, said on Twitter that bullets had been fired at his… Read More

On Friday, Emmanuel Macron accused Russia of being “a power destabilising Africa”, in an interview with franceinfo/RFI/France 24 on the fringes of the Paris summit, with the Kremlin assuring that it was developing “constructive relations” with Russia. “It is a power destabilising Africa through private militias that come to predate and commit acts of violence against civilian populations”, said the… Read More