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Barely a year after his overthrow, Sudan’s former president Omar al-Bashir will be hauled to the International Criminal Court (ICC) in The Hague to face war crimes charges. A spokesperson for the country’s civilian – military transitional council disclosed the latest decision which means Bashir, currently under house arrest and facing corruption charges will have other issues to concern himself… Read More

Mali’s president Ibrahim Boubacar Keita on Monday confirmed that his government is in talks with jihadist insurgents, an option that had been long rejected even as conflict deepened in the West African country. The disclosure comes as the Malian government said that it had dispatched troops to the key town of Kidal that has become a symbol of its lack… Read More

The coronavirus was confirmed in the Chinese city of Wuhan on January 7, 2020. Cases have since been confirmed in several other Asian countries, Europe and the United States. The World Health Organisation, WHO, has since declared it a public health emergency of international dimensions. WHO chief Tedros Ghebereyesus said whiles China had a robust health system to detect and… Read More

Mali’s President Ibrahim Boubacar Keita has said the authorities were now prepared to talk with jihadist groups in the hope of ending an insurgency that has made swathes of the country ungovernable and stoked ethnic violence. Keita speaking in an interview with French media on Monday acknowledged escalating bloodshed in the country’s central and northern regions prompted a rethink Indeed,… Read More

UK born supermodel and actress, Naomi Campbell in a recently shared open letter to the Recording Academy also known as GRAMMYs stated that the position Afrobeats genre is being placed is something too worrisome and needs to be looked into. Campbell urged the Recording Academy to reassess the categories in which the genre is missing. In the letter posted on… Read More

South Africa’s president Cyril Ramaphosa, who took over as African Union chair on Sunday, has said Libya and South Sudan are the two conflicts he wants to focus on during his tenure. ‘‘There was an urgent need to deal with the action of countries outside our continent that are fighting proxy wars and fuelling ongoing conflicts on our continent,’‘ Ramaphosa… Read More

Tuesday February 11, 2020 marks 30 years since the late South African President Nelson Mandela was released from prison. Madiba, as he was affectionately called walked free to become South Africa’s first elected black president. “Whites are fellow South Africans and we want them to feel safe and that we appreciate the contribution they have made towards the development of… Read More

A Kenyan TV station on Saturday broadcast a video that showed a Chinese man caning a Kenyan in an open compound. K24 Digital describing the footage as “disturbing” said it was an exclusive clip of the Chinese meting punishment to a late employee. The video was “showing a senior Chinese hotel officer whipping a Kenyan waiter over allegations of reporting… Read More

Intro: Ghana, a resource rich nation with twin threats Ghana, the West African country sandwiched by French speaking Togo to the east and Ivory Coast to the west, is one of the endowed nations in terms of natural resources. The Gold Coast, going by its former name, rings a resource bell. Gold. Beyond that, Ghana has diamond, bauxite, manganese and… Read More

Host nation Cameroon intensify preparations ahead of the African nations champions as the team has won all preparatory matches along the way and barely over a month to the start of the competition, team Cameroon is expected to play both Congo next week. Inter Milan goes top of the serie A after dominating eternal rivals AC Milan 4-2 on Sunday,… Read More