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A Kenyan nurse has admitted to sending the wrong patient for brain surgery, blaming a heavy workload for the error. Mary Wahome only realised her mistake when surgeons said they could not find the patient’s blood clot. They were meant to operate on a man with a blood clot on the brain. But the man who had surgery only needed ...

No Ghanaian has been featured among African’s 18 billionaires in the latest Forbes billionaire list for 2018. According to Forbes, there were a record 2,208 billionaires from 72 countries worldwide. Aloko Dangote from Nigeria with net worth of US$14.1 billion was African’s number one billionaire. He owns Dangote Cement, the biggest cement manufacturer on the continent. South Africa’s Nicky Oppenheimer ...

At least 40 people have been killed in the last 48 hours in Northeastern DR Congo following a new outbreak of ethnic clashes between Hema cattle herders and Lendu farmers, local civil society leader John Bosco Lalu told Reuters on Tuesday. The United Nations-sponsored Radio Okapi reported that heavily armed men armed wielding machetes, arrows and AK-47s attacked villages and ...

Nigeria’s presidency said on Monday it plans to negotiate for the release of 110 girls abducted from a school in the northeastern town of Dapchi last month, rather than use a military operation to free them by force. The kidnapping is one of the largest since the jihadist group Boko Haram abducted more than 270 schoolgirls from the northeastern town ...

U.S. President Donald Trump on Tuesday said he had replaced U.S. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson with Central Intelligence Agency Director Mike Pompeo, and appointed Gina Haspel to lead the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA). Gina Haspel was last year appointed as the first ever female deputy director of CIA and has now made more history in her appointment to the highest position ...

“Just a bit further, round the next bend,” my guide Jim said, as our fishing boat pitched and rolled in the choppy waters of the North Sea. It was hardly reassuring. But as we lurched from side to side, I reminded myself that the purpose of our trip was worth it. We were re-tracing a 230-year-old voyage that forever changed ...

A Ugandan MP has left people horrified after saying men need to “discipline” and “beat” their wives. Twinamasiko Onesimus, who represents Bugangaizi East constituency was speaking to Ugandan television channel NTV when he made the shocking statement. “As a man, you need to discipline your wife,” he told the channel. “You need to touch her a bit, you tackle her, ...

Kenyan president on the occasion of 2018 International Women’s Day celebrations, disclosed a ‘summary’ of how he met Margaret Kenyatta, the First Lady. According to Uhuru, it involved a day out swimming, his father was involved and heeding the old man’s advice was also crucial. He also stressed the importance of women in building a strong nation. His tweet read: ...

A soldier has been killed by suspected separatists in Cameroon, the local French portal Journal du Cameroon, has reported. The report said the incident occured around 19-20h local time, when a curfew was deemed to be in force. The report said one Private Abdalah was killed on Wednesday during an attack on an outpost he was guarding in the town ...

The Ethiopian government has admitted a violent pushback to a recently ratified state of emergency (SOE). A number of security of forces have reportedly been attacked and their weapons confiscated. The privately-owned Addis Standard news portal quoted defense minister and head of the Command Post administering the SOE, Siraj Fegessa, as comparing the fightback as a ‘coloured revolution.’ “Seventeen security ...