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The government of Eswatini says Prime Minister Ambrose Dlamini has died, four weeks after he tested positive for coronavirus. A government statement said Dlamini, 52, died on Sunday afternoon in hospital in South Africa. No cause of death was mentioned, but Dlamini had recently been receiving treatment for Covid-19 in South Africa. Dlamini had been prime minister of Eswatini, formerly ...

The East Africa Court of Justice (EACJ) has awarded Kenyan politician Martha Karua $25,000 (about Ksh2.7 million) in damages for infringement of her right to a fair trial. A three Judge bench at the EACJ First Instance Division awarded Ms. Karua the damages for infringement of her right to a fair trial and fair hearing by the government through the ...

Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed said Monday the Tigray region’s dissident leaders had fled west of the regional capital after weeks of fighting but indicated federal forces were monitoring them closely and would attack them soon. Abiy, winner of last year’s Nobel Peace Prize, this month ordered military operations against leaders of Tigray’s ruling party, the Tigray People’s Liberation Front ...

Villagers in Nigeria buried the bodies of dozens of farmers killed in a “gruesome” massacre that left at least 110 dead. The UN says at least 110 civilians have been killed in a “gruesome attack” on two villages in northeastern Nigeria. Survivors of the massacre are being treated in hospital with serious injuries and the UN says several women are ...

Mark Angel is one of the household names in the comedy industry in Nigeria. He is well known for his short comedy series on YouTube called Mark Angel Comedy which has over six million subscribers. In 2017, the comedy series received a plaque from Youtube after becoming the first-ever Nigerian-owned YouTube channel to hit a million subscribers. The comedy series, ...

World’s football governing body, FIFA has handed CAF President Ahmad Ahmad a five-year ban for financial misconduct. The ban takes immediate effect and therefore affects his ambition to contest for the CAF Presidency next year. Ahmad was accused of the duty of loyalty, offering and accepting gifts or other benefits, abuse of position and misappriopration of funds The head of ...

Kenya’s doctors’ union has given the government the statutory 21-day notice of a strike after it said that 10 of its members have died from coronavirus. Four doctors died last week alone, all in a 24-hour period, although it is unclear if they had contact with coronavirus patients. The doctors accuse the government of exposing them to Covid-19. The union’s ...

Eswatini Prime Minister Ambrose Dlamini has tested positive for Covid-19. The prime minister on Sunday said he was self-isolating at home adding that he was asymptomatic and was feeling well. All the prime minister’s close contacts have been tested and are isolating. The country on Sunday tested 384 samples out of which two were found to be positive, according to ...

Former Nigerian President, Olusegun Obasanjo, says former President of Ghana, Jerry Rawlings, “will be remembered for his critical role in the evolvement of modern democratic Ghana”. He recalled that Rawlings, who died on Thursday aged 73, supported and accommodated his non-governmental organisation, the Africa Leadership Forum, when former Nigerian Military Leader, Sani Abacha, jailed him in 1995. Obasanjo stated this ...

Former Malian President Amadou Toumani Touré has died aged 72. He died early Tuesday in Turkey where he was undergoing treatment. He arrived in Turkish commercial capital, Istanbul, a few days ago. Before his departure from Mali, he had undergone an emergency heart surgery in the capital, Bamako. He was Mali’s president from 2002 until he was deposed by a ...