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A South African Star on the Rise South African singer-songwriter Nomcebo Zikode, who featured on the hit song “Jerusalema” with Master KG has won the category of Best Female Artist at the KZN Entertainment Awards — receiving a cash prize of almost 6,000 euros The aim of this initiative is to honour and celebrate the considerable talent – hailing from… Read More

Burundi’s former president Pierre Buyoya has died in Paris of Covid-19 at the age of 71, relatives said Friday, just weeks after he resigned as the African Union’s special envoy to Mali and the Sahel. Buyoya, who was credited with helping push democracy in the small African country but was accused of involvement in his successor’s assassination, was hospitalized in… Read More

Netflix has announced it has appointed top Zimbabwean businessman and philanthropist Strive Masiyiwa to its board. Masiyiwa is the founder and executive chairman of Econet Global, a telco company that traverse 29 countries in Africa, Europe, Asia and Latin America. Econet group offers mobile payment, broadband distribution and satelite services. His appointment comes in hand with Netflix’s need to expand… Read More

The United Nations warned that next year, “more than half of all Yemenis will go hungry,” with “five million people to be living just one step away from famine and about 50,000 people to live in famine like conditions.” UN spokesperson Stehane Dujarric told reporters in New York on Wednesday (16 Dec) that the UN response plan Yemen “remains less… Read More

Hundreds of schoolboys kidnapped in northwest Nigeria were handed over to government security, the Katsina state governor said in a televised interview on Thursday. Governor Aminu Bello Masari told state channel NTA that a total of 344 boys had been freed. “We have recovered most of the boys. It’s not all of them,” he said. But a security source told… Read More

As the Prussian Palace made its grand opening of a museum on Wednesday, the debate on the return of artifacts plundered from abroad has reached its boiling point. The Humboldt Forum will exhibit 20,000 treasures from Africa, Asia and Oceania, mostly from the former colonies. Among the prized artifacts being displyed is the Benin Bronzes, which Nigeria’s ambassador to Germany,… Read More

Sub-Saharan Africa has been named riskiest region in the world for business and investors due to militant violence and abuses by security forces, according to new report by risk consultants Verisk Maplecroft. Wilson Khembo, Director for ‘’Seven Oaks Road’’a political and security risk consultancy firm in West Yorkshire, England tells our Ignatius Annor that ‘’ the new report is not… Read More

Bayern Munich striker Robert Lewandowski was named The Best FIFA men’s player of the year while former Lyon defender Lucy Bronze picked up the women’s award after the pair both won trebles with their respective clubs during the 2019/20 season. Lewandowski won the Bundesliga, DFB-Pokal and the Champions League with Bayern while Bronze matched that achievement after winning the French… Read More

A small room in Cidade de Deus, a favela in Rio de Janeiro has become an improvised ballet studio in Brazil. The community became famous worldwide after the 2002 movie by the same name, where it depicted the violent drug wars and the brutality of the police. These are still very real today and part of the daily lives of… Read More

People move freely between Benin and Nigeria from the Seme-Krake border post a day after Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari lifted the closure of borders with neighbouring Benin. The land borders were closed to goods in August 2019, with partial openings and closings for people prompted by the coronavirus pandemic throughout 2020. Now they are open. The land borders at Seme,… Read More