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The Libyan Ambassador to the United Nations, Elmahdi Elmajerbi has condemned the deadly car bomb attack in Benghazi Saturday. The blast which occurred outside the Arkan Mall in the Hawari vicinity, killed at least 3 UN staff. “This cowardly attack today in Benghazi followed the abduction of a member of parliament, Ms. Seham Sergiwa, two weeks ago, whose fate is ...

Leader of Nigeria’s Shi’ite sect Ibrahim Zakzaky and his wife Zeena will fly out of Nigeria to India today to seek medical treatment, local media outlets have reported citing his lawyer Femi Falana. Government banned the Islamic Movement in Nigeria (IMN) in July after a week of protests in which the group said at least 20 of its members were ...

Cameroonian striker, Clinton N’Jie, 25, posted a sex tape live stream of himself via his Snapchat. The former Tottenham forward accidentally broadcast himself and a female partner in a compromising position. He later confirmed that he had been out, drinking to celebrating a new contract after agreeing to join Dynamo from Marseille. He claimed that he had been trying to ...

South Africa coach Stuart Baxter resigned on Friday, saying he felt the time was right to move on with a new cycle of Africa Cup of Nations and World Cup qualifiers looming. His decision comes just weeks after South Africa reached the quarter-finals of the Cup of Nations in Egypt, bundling out the hosts in the last 16. It was ...

FIFA has banned Confederation of African Football (CAF) Executive Committee Member Musa Bility for 10 years and fined him $500,000 for breaching its code of ethics. Football’s world governing body found the former Liberia FA (LFA) president “guilty of having misappropriated FIFA funds, as well as having received benefits and found himself in situations of conflict of interest”. FIFA said ...

A Nigerian couple at the heart of a rape accusation against a leading pastor in the country, say their lives are at risk. Photographer Busola Dakolo and her husband Timi Dakolo held a press conference in Nigeria’s commercial hub Lagos on Sunday. Mr Dakolo is quoted by online newspaper Premium Times as saying: “We have been followed, our home has ...

Kenya’s finance minister has surrendered himself to the police after the chief prosecutor ordered his arrest over allegations of corruption. Henry Rotich is accused of flouting procurement procedures in awarding a contract worth over $450m (£405m) for the construction of two dams to the Italian company CMC de Ravenna. In March Mr Rotich denied any wrongdoing in a large newspaper ...

South Africa’s highest court has ruled that the public protector – the state official in charge of investigating corruption – had lied under oath and acted in bad faith. The devastating judgement will add weight to claims that Busisiwe Mkwebane is involved in a dirty-tricks campaign to undermine President Cyril Ramaphosa and halt his campaign against high-level corruption, says the ...

Frank Nyongona is a Congolese who has lived in Cameroon for 23 years. In a Yaoundé suburb, he makes and sells guitars. After completing his carpentry training in 1993, Nyongona moved to Congo to learn how to play guitar with a Catholic priest. Later, he moved to Cameroon with his wife. “What motivated me was there need for guitars, whether ...

Dr. Kambale Tsongo Philemon survived the deadly Ebola viral disease in the Democratic Republic of Congo in November 2018. And now, he’s inspired to treat others suffering the deadly disease at an Ebola medical center in Beni. “I took an oath and I have compassion for people who are sick. I want to save lives. This is my oath. That ...