Health Minister, Manaouda Malachie mentioned in a tweet that his team was going for Madagascar’s organic drug to cure Covid-19. Mr Manaouda said a meeting with Madagascan visitors was on its way so they could talk more about the herbal…
Ugandan politician and musician Bobi Wine has partnered with businessman Neil Nelson to airlift Africans and African-Americans affected by racism in China. Wine said they will be airlifted “to a country in Africa that is willing to receive them” The…
China’s growing racism, xenophobia and hate against foreigners has replaced news of Coronavirus. Africans have reacted after a video went viral on social media showing that Africans are being targeted in China. They are being asked to leave hotels and…
Many people have raised questions in regards to recent news linking Coronavirus or Covid-19 with the introduction of the 5G Technology. In this light, the Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC) has published a ‘clarification’ explaining the correlation between 5G Technology and…
Tedros Adhanom, head of the World Health Organization (WHO) has condemned as “racist” the comments made by two French doctors who suggested a vaccine for the Covid-19 be tested in Africa. “Africa can’t and won’t be a testing ground for…
Chadian President Idriss Deby has led his troops into retaliating with a heavy attack on the deadly group Boko Haram Deby is leading the armies of Nigeria, Chad and Niger to launch a major military offensive against Boko Haram in…
African football legends Didier Drogba and Samuel Eto’o have condemned comments made by two French doctors suggesting in a TV program that medical trials for Covid-19 be tested on Africans. Angered, Drodga posted to kick against the fact that Africans…
While the number of confirmed cases of Covid-19 in Africa is still small, relative to population size, its governments are taking major steps to slow and potentially stop the virus from spreading. In West Africa, a number of countries have…
At least 13 persons have been rushed to the hospital after a deadly explosion hit Akure, Ondo State on Saturday March 28 at about 1am. Reports say the explosion occurred along Akure-Owo expressway, a few kilometres from the Akure metropolis.…
United Bank for Africa Plc (UBA) has announced a donation of 5 billion Naira ($14 million or 8 billion CFA), through the UBA Foundation to speed the fight against the coronavirus global pandemic. The donation provides support to Nigeria and…
Gambian children are being sold to British paedophiles for as little as £2-a-time by their desperate parents, Sun Online can reveal. Huge numbers of predators are taking advantage of lax laws in the poverty stricken African country to embark on…
Zimbabwe’s long-serving president Robert Mugabe has died in Singapore at the age of 95, the current president Emmerson Mnangagwa said. Mugabe had been travelling regularly to Singapore for treatment and died after a long battle with illness, his family said.…
The Nigeria division of South African telecoms company, MTN, has announced that it is closing shops until further notice, following reprisal attacks targeting its offices and facilities in Nigeria by irate and opportunistic locals. The retaliatory attacks on a host…
By Arrey Bate The waves of looting and violence in the latest xenophobic incidents in South Africa’s Johannesburg city has sparked off citizen reactions from African countries like Nigeria, Ethiopia and Zambia. Nigeria’s government in a statement condemned the violence…
By Sanji Bernadette The Gambian government has ordered that all flags fly at half mast in memory of late Sir Dawda Jawara the country’s independence hero, first prime minister and president. President Adams Barrow on Tuesday confirmed reports that the…
By Marbel T. Just like Nelson Mandela, he was a great freedom fighter, an opposition figure under president Leopold Sedar Senghor, Abdou Diouf and Abdoulaye Wade. He was jailed numerous times and spent many years in exile elsewhere in Africa…
By Marbel Taku [Student on Internship] Equatorial Guinea is an oil-rich central African nation which has been led by President Teodoro Obiang Nguema since 1979. Rich in natural resource (oil), the country has started building a wall along the border…
Darcy Irakoze known as Kacaman was a Burundi based YouTube star who has been killed by Malaria yesterday August 9. BBC Africa News reported that Kacaman who was diagnosed of Malaria on Wednesday August 7, died two days after. The…
“How do women get men who are standing in the way of gender equality to listen to them? Grab them by their genitalia. Unless you grab and squeeze hard, they’re not listening” The above is an extract of a writing…
Niamey, 6 July 2019 – The United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), the global development network of the United Nations, has partnered with the Tony Elumelu Foundation (TEF) Africa’s leading philanthropy committed to empowering entrepreneurs — to train, mentor and financially…