Africa

Veterans in the African National Congress (ANC) party have objected against the prison sentence given to South Africa’s former president Jacob Zuma. The Umkhonto Wesizwe Military Veterans Association (MKMVA) on Wednesday objected the “entirely unjustifiable and unjust” jail term. Zuma, 79,...

Officials of the All-Africa Students Union led by Secretary-General H.E. Peter Kwesi Kodjie on Monday, 28th June, 2021 paid a working visit to Minister of Youth and Sports, Hon. Mustapha Ussif. The visit formed part of a series of engagements...

Association Sportive de la Kozah (ASKO) de Kara have been crowned Togo's new champions. The Kara big boys  defeated city rivals, Association Sportive des Conducteurs (ASC) de Kara on Sunday.  After a one-all draw, the match was decided on penalties. ASC de Kara grabbed the...

Nigeria's Petroleum Minister Timipre Sylva said on Saturday that the country discovered an extra 206 trillion cubic feet of gas reserves inadvertently while searching for crude oil. Mr Sylva said in Abuja that the discovery of an added 600 trillion cubic feet...

TUNISIA has confirmed six cases of the Delta COVID-19 strain, which was originally identified in India, the health ministry said, amidst the virus's rapid spread in the North African nation. Tunisia is dealing with an increase in cases after effectively...

According to a study by the Global System for Mobile Communications (GSMA), Africa is projected to maintain its remarkable lead in mobile money services as a consequence of widespread acceptance of no-contact payments and, more recently, fear of contracting COVID-19. In 2020,...

Ethiopia's army denied on Thursday that it carried out fatal airstrikes targeting people in Togogo, a town in the Tigray region. "We haven't carried out air strikes on a market place. How can this be? The army has the capability...

Over 200 workers in Uganda's parliament, including members of parliament, have tested positive for Covid-19 in the past three weeks. The revelation comes amid concerns that their drivers and relatives may be infected with a contagious variant of the virus that has...

Workers in northern Tunisia collect red seaweed knee-deep in the calm waters of a lagoon, in a country dubbed a Mediterranean "trailblazer" in cultivating the in-demand plant. Red seaweed or algae is utilized as a gelling, thickening, and texturing agent...

Togo has opened West Africa's largest solar power plant as part of an effort to expand access to electricity and promote renewable energy in the small coastal nation. The 50 megawatt plant in central Togo would power over 158,000 homes...