Tag: Africaglobalvillage

Adama Bictogo, an executive of the ruling party in Côte d’Ivoire, was elected president of the National Assembly on Tuesday. This comes a month after the death of his predecessor Amadou Soumahoro. Adama Bictogo, 59, largely beat his opponent, MP Jean-Michel Amankou, 237 votes to 6. Three blank votes and two invalid ballots were also recorded. “The gathering and consensus… Read More

Influential former Lagos governor Bola Tinubu won Nigeria’s ruling party’s 2023 presidential primary on Wednesday, where he will face another veteran of Nigerian politics, Atiku Abubakar, the candidate of the main opposition party. “I declare Bola Ahmed Tinubu as the presidential candidate of our party in the upcoming 2023 elections,” said Atiku Bagudu, the election official of the All Progressives… Read More

South Africa held a late training session on Tuesday in Delhi as they continued to prepare for the first Twenty 20 of the five-match series against hosts India. Captain Temba Bavuma is hoping to surprise the hosts with a series win and build some momentum ahead of the T20 World Cup scheduled for later this year. Bavuma’s side has been… Read More

The Ghana Health Service (GHS) has confirmed five cases of the Monkeypox disease. No death has been recorded among the cases, state newspaper, Graphic reported sourcing the director-general of the GHS, Dr Patrick Kuma Aboagye, who made this known Wednesday. According to Dr Kumah, the cases were recorded in three regions; Eastern, Western and Greater Accra. 12-suspected cases have been… Read More

Last updated: 42 minutes ago South Korean environmental activists protest against Japan’s plan to discharge Fukushima radioactive water into the sea, as they mark World Oceans Day. Last month, the Japan’s Nuclear Regulation Authority (NRA) has given Tokyo Electric Power initial approval to discharge water from the plant starting early next year. With NRA’s final approval sometime this month, early… Read More

Cameroon’s government said Tuesday that a group of soldiers killed nine villagers, including an 18-month-old girl. The authorities called the incident a “manifestly disproportionate” and “hasty” response to a confrontation in the restive English speaking part of the country. On June 1st, four soldiers were searching for a missing comrade in the village of Missong, Northwest Cameroon, when they came… Read More

Last updated: 10 hours ago King Philippe of Belgium landed in the Democratic Republic of Congo on Tuesday as part of a historic visit to the central African country. The visit comes two years after the Belgian king wrote to Congolese President Felix Tshisekedi to express his “deep regrets” for the “wounds of the past”. Belgium’s colonisation of the Congo… Read More

Radical Economic Freedom Fighters party president Julius Malema says South African President Cyril Ramaphosa must step down pending investigations into money laundering following reports that money was stolen from his Phala Phala farm. Malema who addressed journalists on Tuesday said Ramaphosa had failed to prove to South Africans that he is a worthy president. “Fellow South Africans, we gave Cyril… Read More

The Democratic Republic of Congo DRC has welcomed Belgium’s King Philippe in what is a historic visit to the central African country that the Kings ancestor once ruled brutally as his personal fief. The monarch arrived Tuesday and will undertake a six-day trip billed as a chance for reconciliation. Tshisekedi and his wife greeted King Philippe and Queen Mathilde on… Read More

Sunday June 5, 2022 is a day residents of Owo, Ondo State southwest Nigeria will never forget. Gunmen using explosives killed at least 21 people, including children, in an attack on St. Francis Catholic Church. The attack carried out moments before the church service was to end, has drawn local and international condemnation. It also leaves fear on the relatively spared… Read More