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Zimbabwe’s founding president Roberty Mugabe will be buried on on Sunday, September 15, having passed on last week in Singapore, at the age of 95. Having ruled the Southern African nation for 37 years, until he was ousted by the army in November 2017, Mugabe’s legacy continues to divide opinions at home and abroad. The government and his family also ...

A pilot flew into South Africa’s busiest airport, the Oliver Tambo International Airport, in the commercial capital Johannesburg on Monday in what has been described by local news portals as an “unannounced landing.” The reports say that the pilot of the light aircraft had flown into the airport at a time when other bigger aircrafts were taxiing for takeoff. The ...

Deputy Foreign Affairs minister Charles Owiredu has said no Ghanaian has so far been attacked in the xenophobic insurrection in South Africa. He also noted there are no reports that Ghanaian-owned shops or interests have been hit in the attacks. Black natives in South Africa have for the past week taken to looting and burning of shops owned by other ...

Sudan’s newly-created sovereign council formally declared a state of emergency in the city of Port Sudan on Sunday, following tribal clashes that police say have killed at least 16 people. The acting governor and the head of the national security service for the eastern Red Sea state, of which Port Sudan is the capital, were both dismissed, said Brigadier Altahir ...

U.S President Donald Trump spoke about the new US-Japanese trade deal on Monday. At a meeting with the Egyptian President Abdel-Fattah el-Sisi at the G7 summit in France, Trump said the media ‘‘never writes’‘ about such feats. “One of the things we’ll be discussing will be trade. And I can’t underestimate or speak more highly of the trade deal we ...

Former finalist Kevin Anderson has withdrawn from the U.S. Open due to a knee injury, tournament organisers have disclosed. The South African, who reached the 2017 final in New York where he lost to Rafa Nadal, has not competed since he lost in the third round at Wimbledon last month. Anderson, who was the 16th seed at the year’s final ...

Sudan needs $8 billion in foreign aid over the next two years to cover its import bill and help rebuild its ravaged economy after months of political turmoil, its new prime minister said on Saturday. Abdalla Hamdok, sworn in three days earlier to head a transitional government after the ousting of veteran leader Omar al-Bashir, said up to another $2 ...

The Bureau of the FIFA Council have appointed a five-member normalisation committee for the Egyptian Football Association (EFA) on Tuesday. The decision comes after the resignation of former EFA President Hany Abou-Rida and the entire EFA board following Egypt’s disappointing 2019 AFCON campaign. The normalisation committee will be composed of five members, with former Zamalek board member Amr Youssef Hassan ...

The British NGO Global Witness has alleged financial malfeasance against son of the president of the Republic of Congo, Christel Denis Sassou Nguesso. The group said it had discovered documents pointing to the siphoning of over $50 million in public funds by President Denis Sassou Nguesso’s son. Their report indicates the money received would have been used to set up ...

Two oil companies have discovered the first oil deposit in the northern part of the Republic of Congo. The discovery was announced over the weekend in the town of Oyo. According to experts, the features of this first onshore oil field promises a possibility to quadruple the country’s production. The Delta de la Cuvette deposit, covers an area of 9,392 ...