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The business of sports betting in Kenya Promises to make you rich overnight! Sports betting is very popular in Africa, especially in Kenya. We go to Nairobi where the government is trying to limit the development of these very lucrative businesses. Rwanda wants to attract more investors Rwanda has become one of the most business-friendly countries on the African continent.… Read More

The World Food Programme (WFP) said on Thursday that a new convoy of 50 trucks was on its way to Mekele, the capital of Ethiopia’s troubled Tigray region, which is threatened by famine. The World Food Programme (WFP) said it was pleased to announce the resumption of road convoys to Tigray on 1 April following the announcement of a “truce”… Read More

All the disappointment of defeat for Cape Town Tigers was ended last night in Cairo, with the South African franchise finally winning its first meeting in the BAL Nile Conference. Evans Ganapamo and his teammates fought hard against the Yaounde’s FAP led by Brice Bidias and Cedric Kenfack. The two teams went blow for blow without ever-widening the gap. With… Read More

The death rate from the overwhelming floods in and around South Africa’s port city of Durban keeps rising. As of April 14, over 300 bodies had been counted by emergency service workers… Fear the numbers may increase as the days go by. Nonala Ndlovu, spokesperson for the provincial disaster management department, said the death toll was “one of the darkest… Read More

Approximately 4,800 people have fled their homes in Central Nigeria following the deadly attacks last Sunday, according to a government spokesperson. Groups of gunmen on motorcycles overran five villages of Plateau state shooting people in every direction and burning houses during the weekend, killing more than 100 people. People fled from Kyaram, Gyambau, Dungur, Kukawa and Shuwaka where the assaults… Read More

After loosing everything because of devastating floods in and around the Eastern South African city of Durban, some residents are trying to find shelter in the underground halls of hostels. Mobheki Sokhela is volunteering in one of those places in Durban’s Umlazi township and says a lot of people will have to settle on chairs or a cardboard boxes as… Read More

Clermont Foot’s Guinean international striker Mohamed Bayo has been given a two-month suspended prison sentence for “driving under the influence of alcohol” and “unintentional injury” by the judicial court in Clermont-Ferrand, France. At a hearing on Tuesday, the striker was also fined €4,000 and had his driving licence suspended, Clermont-Ferrand public prosecutor Eric Maillaud said, confirming a report in the… Read More

Rising cost of food prices pushed Ghana’s inflation rate in the month of March 2022 to 19.4%, the highest since August 2009. According to the Ghana Statistical Service, Foodstuffs such as Oil and Fats (28.2%), Water (27.1%), Cereal Products (25.0%), Vegetables (23.8%), Fish and Other Seafood (23.7%), Fruits and Nuts (22.1%), Soft Drinks (20.5%), Live Animals, and Meat (20.2%) recorded… Read More

The Republic of Congo and Rwanda have signed two memorandums of understanding and a concession agreement in the agricultural field. The agreements were part of a series signed during the just concluded 3 day state visit of the Rwandan President Paul Kagame to Brazzaville. Congo will reportedly grant Rwanda 12,000 hectares of exploitable land in at least three Departments in… Read More

At least 28 people have drowned after their boat capsized in north-western Nigeria as they tried to cross a river to fetch firewood on Tuesday evening. Regional government official Aliyu Dantani has said most of the dead were teenage girls after emergency workers and volunteers retrieved their bodies from River Shagari in Sokoto state. Five children were also reported among… Read More