Following the untimely death of BBC presenter Komla Dumor, 41, BBC Africa editor Solomon Mugera looks back at his short but brilliant career. Komla Dumor was the face and the voice of Africa – a new young, enterprising, internationally connected, ambitious Africa, with a can-do attitude. When pioneering the launch of Africa Business Report on […]
About 600 Nigerians will return from South Africa after a wave of deadly xenophobic violence in Johannesburg. Nigeria will repatriate about 600 citizens from South Africa this week following a wave of deadly xenophobic violence that has sparked sharp exchanges between the two countries. “They are about 600 now” to be flown back, Godwin Adamu, […]
Equatorial Guinea is a small country on the west coast of Africa which struck oil in 1995 and which is now being cited as a textbook case of the resource curse – or the paradox of plenty. It is made up of a mainland territory called Rio Muni, and five islands including Bioko, where the […]
SOWETO, South Africa — Nomsa Victorino had a Lexus in her garage, a pool in her yard, eight bedrooms in her villa and a message for the world about her famous hometown. “Whatever people have in their mind about Soweto — that Soweto is a place for poor people — it’s not like that,” said […]
PM calls on Washington not to punish the Sudanese people for ‘crimes’ committed by Omar al-Bashir’s government. Sudan’s new Prime Minister Abdalla Hamdok has urged the United States to remove Khartoum from its list of state sponsors of “terrorism”, saying sanctions imposed by Washington were causing “tremendous suffering” to the Sudanese people. Speaking at the […]
CAIRO (AP) – The US military says it has carried out an airstrike against the Islamic State group in Libya, the third US airstrike in the North African country in a little over a week. These US airstrikes over the last eight days are the first in Libya in over a year. US Africa Command […]
At least seven children have died after a classroom collapsed at a primary school in the Kenyan capital Nairobi, officials say. The wooden structure at Precious Talent Top School collapsed just minutes after the start of the school day on Monday. Dozens of people were injured and have been taken to hospital in the city. […]
The body of Robert Mugabe will be buried in his home town, following a final twist in a row over the former Zimbabwean leader’s resting place. Mugabe died this month aged 95 and a funeral was held in the capital Harare. The government had resisted his family’s wish for him to be buried in his […]
The body of Robert Mugabe will be buried in his home town, following a final twist in a row over the former Zimbabwean leader’s resting place. Mugabe died this month aged 95 and a funeral was held in the capital Harare. The government had resisted his family’s wish for him to be buried in his […]
The country’s first post-independence leader dies nearly two years after he stepped down, following 37 years in office. Former Zimbabwe President Robert Mugabe has died at the age of 95, President Emmerson Mnangagwa said. “It is with the utmost sadness that I announce the passing on of Zimbabwe’s founding father and former President, Cde Robert […]