Key issues in Mozambique election
MAPUTO, Oct 12 (NNN-AGENCIES) — Mozambique is due to hold presidential, provincial and legislative elections on Tuesday Oct 15, two…
Hundreds of thousands forced from homes in Burkina Faso: UN
OUAGADOUGOU, Oct 12 (NNN-AGENCIES) — The United Nations refugee agency (UNHCR) says more than a quarter of a million people…
Nigeria’s president demands action after ‘sex-for-grades’ film
ABUJA, Oct 12 (NNN-AGENCIES) — Four days after a BBC Africa Eye documentary was broadcast revealing cases of sexual harassment…
Uber launches boat service in Nigeria’s megacity Lagos
LAGOS, Oct 12 (NNN-AGENCIES) — Global ride-hailing firm Uber on Friday launched a pilot test of a boat service in…
Cargo plane crashes in Congo, killing presidential staff on board
KINSHASA, Oct 12 (NNN-AGENCIES) — A cargo plane carrying presidential staff crashed in eastern Congo, killing all eight passengers and…
Ethiopian PM Abiy Ahmed wins 2019 Nobel Peace Prize
Abiy Ahmed (Left) and Eritrean Pres Isaias Afwerki OSLO, Oct 12 (NNN-AGENCIES) — Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed won the…
South Africa’s Gupta brothers sanctioned by US over ‘corruption’
WASHINGTON, Oct 12 (NNN-AGENCIES) —The US Treasury has imposed sanctions against the Gupta family and an associate over alleged corruption in…
Rwanda Receives More African Refugees From Libya
KIGALI, Rwanda, Oct 12 (NNN-XINHUA) – Rwanda received 123 African refugees and asylum-seekers, who have been living in Libya’s detention…
Congo’s Ebola outbreak slows but still entrenched in insecure areas: WHO
GENEVA, Oct 11 (NNN-AGENCIES) — The Ebola epidemic in northeastern Democratic Republic of Congo has been confined to a rural…
South Africa president calls for tolerance towards migrants
CAPE TOWN, Oct 11 (NNN-AGENCIES) — President Cyril Ramaphosa urged South Africans to be tolerant of migrants following recent xenophobic…