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Saudi authorities are investigating a video claiming to show a gay wedding ceremony in the country, according to regional media reports. Footage of two men in Saudi dress walking down an aisle at an alleged wedding ceremony has gone viral in the Gulf kingdom. Men surrounding the pair are seen throwing confetti. The LGBT community in Saudi Arabia is severely ...

DAVID Cameron thought Barack Obama was one of the “most narcissistic, self-absorbed people” he ever met, according to a former Downing Street strategist. Steve Hilton, who was a senior adviser to Mr Cameron during the 2010 General Election campaign, made the unexpected claim on his new TV show on the American network Fox News. The revelation comes as a shock ...

The government of Kenya has released Sh37 billion (about $357,790,000) to all public schools towards the implementation of free education, a day after they reopened for the 2018 first term. Sh29.5 billion (about $280,430,000) has been paid to all the public secondary schools for Free Secondary Education (FSE) that has been rolled out as part of President Uhuru Kenyatta’s 2017 ...

A tourist was killed and 12 other people were injured in a hot air balloon crash near Luxor in Egypt on Friday, state-run news agency MENA reported. The balloon, with tourists from different nationalities and Egyptians onboard, crashed to the west of the city of Luxor, MENA said. The health ministry said a woman was killed and 12 people injured but gave no other ...

Arsenal manager Arsene Wenger has told the BBC that he has been invited by the new Liberia president George Weah to his inauguration later this month. Wenger was Weah’s manager at French side Monaco between 1988 and 1992 but he is not sure he will able to attend. “I have been invited by George to come to the day where ...

On December 31, 58-year-old parishioner Huguette Bonsonge joined her fellow from St Joseph church in the Democratic Republic of the Congo’s capital, Kinshasa to take part in protests against President Joseph Kabila’s refusal to step down from office. The police had banned the demonstrations and said that all gatherings of more than five people would be dispersed to ensure public ...

Zimbabwe’s President Emmerson Mnangagwa has ruled out the possibility of forming a coalition government after visiting opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai on Friday. “Currently there is no need,” Mnangagwa said about the possibility of forming a coalition with Tsvangirai’s Movement for Democratic Change. The president was responding to media questions after paying a courtesy visit to opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai. Currently ...

Egyptian international Mohamed Salah has been crowned the 2017 African Player of the Year by the Confederation of African Football (CAF) at a ceremony in Accra, Ghana. The player beat off competition from Liverpool teammate and Senegal international, Sadio Mane and 2015 winner Pierre Emerick Aubameyang of Gabon and German side, Borussia Dortmund. Mane came in second, whiles Aubameyang was ...

Ethiopia’s prime minister has announced the release of all political prisoners and the closure of a notorious detention centre which allegedly used torture to extract confessions. Hailemariam Desalegn told a press conference charges would also be dropped for those still awaiting trial. The move was designed to allow political dialogue, he said. Ethiopia is accused by human rights groups of ...

The West African state of Equatorial Guinea said Wednesday it had thwarted “a coup” in late December mounted by mercenaries who sought to attack President Teodoro Obiang Nguema, Africa’s longest-serving leader. In a statement read on public radio, Security Minister Nicolas Obama Nchama said: “Mercenaries… were recruited by Equatorial Guinean militants from certain radical opposition parties with the support of ...