Murder made simple: How South Africa’s black market for assassins is thriving/in /by
The price of eliminating someone in South Africa is between 130 and 8,000 euros. What makes the difference?
Scattered incidents of violence at Nigerian voting stations/in /by
There were scattered incidents of violence at some polling stations across Nigeria on the weekend as the country voted for a new president and national assembly.
Nigeria: Observer group says irregularities led to disenfranchisement of some voters/in /by
"There were numbers of irregularities which we honestly, as an organisation, we cannot excuse, or can no longer excuse, because it gets to a point where as a civil society organisation, who have invested a lot to build confidence in the process, with confidence in INEC, Cynthia Mbamalu
Tunisia: Fearful sub-Saharan nationals exit country amid anti-migrant push/in /by
After a wave of arrests in recent weeks, President Kais Saied gave a speech on Wednesday (Feb. 15) that critics said was openly racist. Many sub-Saharan Africans in Tunisia are now heading for the exit.
Africa’s largest film festival kicks off in Burkina Faso/in /by
15,000 people, including cinema celebrities from Nigeria, Senegal and Ivory Coast are expected in Ouagadougou for FESPACO, Africa's biggest film festival that was launched in 1969. This year's theme is "African cinema and culture of peace".
An ‘Uber’ for trucks: connecting cargo owners with transporters/in /by
Apexloads is a cloud-based freight marketplace that connects cargo owners with transporters to streamline the freight-truck matching process
Sierra leone: the ‘Kekeh’ Campaign against HIV/AIDS/in /by
This is part of the initiatives by Pink Power organization, in sensitizing people about the dangers of sexually transmitted diseases
‘Anxious’ Nigerians await name of Buhari’s successor/in /by
In Lagos and other cities, crowds stormed polling stations late Saturday (Feb.25) as electoral officials tallied the first results before transmitting them to a central database. Early Sunday, results for the presidential election were not yet available on the electoral commission's website.
G20: SA’s Finance minister on Pretoria’s stance on the war in Ukraine/in /by
The meetings of financial chiefs of the Group of 20 leading economies, were due focus on a economic issues. However, tensions over the Russia-Ukraine conflict flared. On Saturday (Feb. 25), South Africa’s Finance minister commented these talks on the sidelines of the summit hosted in Bengaluru.
French President to tour four central Africa nations/in /by
French President Emmanuel Macron will visit four Central African countries from March 1 to 5 for a summit on protecting equatorial forests. The tour also aims to strengthen bilateral ties in a region where France's historic influence seems to be contested.