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Nigeria on Monday began conducting trial operations for the Lagos-Ibadan railway ahead of a January launch. The experimental operations were conducted with passengers on board. The train covered the 156km journey between Ibadan and Lagos in 2 hours and 40 minutes. The Lagos-Ibadan line is a double-track standard gauge rail, the first of its kind in West Africa. Ir runs… Read More

Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed and his Kenyan counterpart President Uhuru Kenyatta inaugurated a new border post on Wednesday in the Kenyan town of Mayale to bolster trade. Abiy is on a two-day visit to neighbouring Kenya, his first official trip since launching military operations against the leaders of the dissident Tigray region last month. “We want to see Moyale… Read More

The Confederation of African Football CAF has fned Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang $10,000 for social media posts that it says tarnished the “honour and image” of the continental football governing body. The Gabonese and Arsenal forward alongside his team-mates were stuck at the airport in the Gambia after arriving for a qualifying game and were not allowed to leave as officials argued… Read More

Ghana’s incumbent president Nana Addo Akufo-Addo has been declared winner of the country’s presidential election. In an announcement on Wednesday, the country’s election commission said Akufo Ado had polled 51.59 per cent as against main opposition candidate John Mahama’s 47.36 per cent of votes. “At the end of the polls, Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo of the New Patriotic Party, obtained… Read More

Christmas has come early, thanks to Mariah Carey’s magical Christmas Special. Mariah is known for helping others get into the holiday spirit. And with a challenging year due to covid-19, the singer is yet again doing just that. “Last year, my song, ‘All I Want for Christmas is You’ kind of made this historic moment of getting to No. 1… Read More

The number of people forced to flee their homes passed 80 million in 2020, the UN refugee agency said in a report released Wednesday in Geneva. According to UNHCR’s Mid-Year Trends report on forced displacement, the figure includes 45.7 million internally displaced people (IDPs), 29.6 million refugees and others forcibly displaced outside their country, and 4.2 million asylum seekers. The… Read More

Five people have been killed in election-linked violence in Ghana, police said on Wednesday in what it described as separate incidents that occurred since the morning of Monday’s presidential and parliamentary vote. The Ghanaian Police Service said it recorded over 60 incidents. “Twenty-one of the incidents are true cases of electoral violence, six of which involve gunshots resulting in the… Read More

Save the Giraffes Kenya Wildlife Service (KWS), Save Giraffes Now, and the Northern Rangelands Trust (NRT) make up the team of conservation groups coordinating a daring and unusual rescue operation to save eight Rothschild’s giraffes from the flooded Longicharo Island near Lake Baringo in Western Kenya. The team is using a specially adapted barge to float the giraffes one-by-one to… Read More

Ethiopia’s government admitted on Tuesday to firing on a United Nations team who were visiting refugees in the conflict-hit Tigray region. But a government spokesman said they were to blame for Sunday’s incident close to the town of Shire, claiming they ignored instructions and drove through government checkpoints. UN and aid agencies are continuing to seek access to the region… Read More

Police were deployed in DR Congo’s parliament on Tuesday on the second day of clashes sparked by a crisis between Tshisekedi and supporters of his predecessor Joseph Kabila. At least three people were hurt as rival groups, including lawmakers, brawled and hurled objects before police restored order. The violence between the two sides started after Tshisekedi said on Sunday he… Read More