Tuesday, November 10, 2026

Africa

May 27, 2022

Buhari donates $3 million for new AU humanitarian agency

Mr Buhari said of the more than five million people displaced in the Lake Chad region, 70 per cent were Nigerians.

President Muhammadu Buhari
May 27, 2022

Court dismisses Zuma’s application in corruption trial

Mr Zuma has pleaded not guilty to charges including corruption, money laundering and racketeering in the long-running case over the $2 billion arms deal in the 1990s.

Jacob Zuma
May 26, 2022

11 newborns die in Senegal hospital fire

Eleven newborn babies have died as a result of a fire outbreak in the neonatal section of a Senegalese hospital

Macky Sall
May 26, 2022

Four children of same mother burnt to death in Uganda

The police suspect a burning candle in the house could have fallen on a motorcycle and ignited the fire.

Fire incident
May 26, 2022

Egypt’s Suez Canal maritime traffic generates $15 million daily

It took about one million Egyptians and 120,000 deaths to put the Suez Canal in place in 1859.

Egypt’s Suez Canal
May 25, 2022

Seventy-six missing after migrant boat sank off coast of Tunisia: UN

Some 650 people have died in the Mediterranean this year, according to IOM spokesman Flavio Di Giacomo.

Migrants boat capsizing
May 25, 2022

Zimbabwean peacekeeper wins UN gender advocate award

Zimbabwean peacekeeper Winnet Zharare has been chosen to receive the prestigious 2021 Military Gender Advocate of the Year Award.

Major Winnet Zharare
May 25, 2022

Africa provides hope despite new challenges: UN

UN Secretary-General António Guterres says Africa is a home for hope, citing the continent’s “growing and vibrant youth population.”

African youths used to illustrate the story
May 24, 2022

Russia’s war in Ukraine causing African households to spend 40% of income on food: Akufo-Addo

Mr Akufo-Addo said the percentage was higher when compared with less than 20 per cent by households in advanced economies.

The President of Ghana, Nana Akufo-Addo [Photo credit: Prime News Ghana]