Tanzanian authorities this week appeared to back down for the first time in the face of relentless opposition to the country’s port management deal with an Emirati firm. The government abandoned a review of laws that would have aided the controversial agreement with DP World. Mr. Feleshi told a parliamentary sitting in Dodoma that the…
At least 74 people have died and dozens more were injured after a fire tore through a five-story building in central Johannesburg that had been turned into informal housing. Authorities said they have moved through the building floor by floor, searching for survivors and pulling out charred bodies and laying them on the streets. At…
A businessman who allegedly defrauded a Kenyan investor of Shs 1.3 billion has been remanded until September 12. Elijah Martin Rusoke, aka Albert Kamugisha, was yesterday arraigned before City Hall Court and charged with two counts of obtaining money by false pretense and conspiracy to commit a felony. He is jointly charged with Issa Muwonge,…
Police in Nigeria arrested over 67 suspects for attending a same-sex wedding in Ekpan, a Delta State town. The police raided the wedding venue on Monday and rounded up the two grooms, along with guests. Authorities also paraded the defendants before the media and said the accused would be made to face the law. Delta…
Zimbabwe‘s President Emmerson Mnangagwa wins a second term in office, election officials said Saturday, but the opposition rejected the result of a vote that international observers said fell short of democratic standards. Mnangagwa, 80, won 52.6 percent of the ballots against 44 percent for the main challenger, Nelson Chamisa, 45, according to official results announced…
Gabon has indefinitely suspended internet access and also imposed a curfew until Sunday morning following presidential elections on Saturday. Earlier Saturday, voters complained that polls opened much later than announced. In the capital, Libreville, many voting sites hadn’t opened by 2 p.m. Voting was to start in the morning and last for 10 hours, by…
Former US President Donald Trump was arrested at a Georgia jail Thursday on racketeering and conspiracy charges and released on a $200,000 bond after having a historic mug shot taken. Trump, who is accused of colluding with 18 other defendants to overturn the 2020 election result in the southern state, spent less than 30 minutes…
Russia’s Dmitry Medvedev, the deputy secretary of the Kremlin’s powerful Security Council, has warned that Moscow could annex Georgia’s breakaway regions of South Ossetia and Abkhazia, the Reuters news agency reported. Medvedev, who has cast himself as one of Moscow’s most hawkish political voices since Russian forces launched a full-scale invasion of Ukraine last year,…
Somalia’s government announced Sunday a ban on social media platforms TikTok and Telegram and an online betting app, saying they were being used by “terrorists” to spread propaganda. In a statement, the ministry of communications and technology ordered internet service providers to implement the ban by August 24 or face unspecified legal action. However, the…
Tanzania has raised the red flag over a lack of funds to take care of the increased number of refugees from the DRC (Democratic Republic of the Congo) . Sudi Mwakibasi, Director of the Refugee Services Department in the Ministry of Home Affairs, said the country needs urgent financial support for the refugees who flocked…
