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Uganda’s security agencies were kept busy on Monday as they deployed at the country’s leading university, clashed with journalists and arrested veteran opposition leader, Kizza Besigye. Kizza Besigye’s brutal arrest Pictures and videos of former presidential candidate Besigye being thrust from his car by water canons evoked harsh reactions from Ugandans, who condemned the use of violence by the country’s ...

A Gambian beauty queen has accused the country’s former president, Yahya Jammeh, of raping her because she refused to marry him. Giving evidence to the Gambia’s Truth, Reconciliation and Reparations Commission, Fatou Jallow said Mr Jammeh had assaulted her in a locked room to punish her. The Commission was set up to examine alleged abuses by Mr Jammeh during his ...

Last week, a Ugandan minister attempted to reintroduce a revoked 2014 law allowing capital punishment for people convicted of gay sex. Meanwhile, police arrested 16 activists on suspicion of homosexuality, which is illegal in Uganda and punishable with up to life in prison. The government’s renewed anti-gay focus has led a long-castigated and already fearful community to lie low, with ...

Samuel Eto’o is up there with George Weah as an African great on the football field, but he says he has no plans to follow the Liberian into politics “for the moment”. “Everyone wants me to go into politics, but there won’t be 10 million Weahs,” Eto’o said in an exclusive interview with AFP. Weah, the only African player to win ...

The Nigerian High Commissioner to Ghana, His Excellency Ambassador Olufemi Michael Abikoye has told their citizens particularly those doing businesses in Ghana to return home since the economy of Nigeria is now in a good shape “Things are getting better in Nigeria and I can assure you. ..And I don’t see any reason why we should not be proud of ...

Nigeria’s anti-graft outfit, the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, on Tuesday confirmed the arrest of a famed social media celebrity and trader in foreign exchange. The arrest of Ismaila Mustapha popularly referred to as Mompha was confirmed by the EFCC on its Twitter handle. It said the suspect was being held for “alleged involvement in internet related fraud and money laundering.” “The ...

South African Airways (SAA) on Tuesday recalled some of its planes to undertake compliance checks, indicating that it may consequently operate an amended flight schedule. The cash-strapped airline said in a statement that some of the flights will operate later than usual and four flights have been cancelled, but the airline has combined flights and deployed bigger aircraft to accommodate ...

Nigeria’s government is under pressure to take urgent action against schools that are abusing children in the name of religion. Over the last one month, police have conducted three raids on Islamic schools in the northern part of the country, where men and boys were chained to walls, molested and beaten, according to police sources. The total number of people ...

At night the women on the Maasai Steppe are busy with their harvest. One by one hives stored in the branches of the trees are lowered to the ground and the honeycomb carefully removed. The hives are then again restored high up in the canopy. The Steppe itself is massive stretching from the Usambara to the Great Rift Valley across ...

South Africans are bracing themselves for yet another bout of power cuts after the power utility company Eskom on Thursday announced a second day of load-shedding citing a number of generating units still out of service. A day earlier Eskom imposed its first power cuts in around seven months, highlighting the challenge facing President Cyril Ramaphosa in rescuing the state ...