The third wife of late Zulu King Goodwill Zwelithini, who died earlier this month, is expected to pick her husband’s successor. Queen Mantfombi Madlamini, who has been named the Zulu interim leader, pending the installation of a new king, is expected to make a choice among her sons. The monarch, who was buried on Thursday, is survived…
Samia Suluhu Hassan has been sworn in as Tanzania’s first female president after the death of John Magufuli from an undisclosed illness. Hassan who was sworn in as the country’s sixth president, promised to obey and protect Tanzania’s constitution. The sixty-one-year-old former Vice President from the island of Zanzibar, will finish Magufuli’s second five-year term, set to…
President Muhammadu Buhari has admitted that his decision to close the land borders for over a year did not stop the inflow of arms and ammunition into Nigeria. President Buhari also says that as far as Libya remains unstable, the problem of illegal arms in the hands of criminals will remain in the Sahel region. The Nigerian…
President Muhammadu Buhari has received the highest award of the Niger Republic. President Buhari will now be addressed as ‘Grand Croix Des Ordre National Du Niger’, which means ‘Grand Cross of the National Order of Niger’. The new title is in addition to President Buhari’s other titles, including Nigeria’s highest award of Grand Commander of the Federal…
An international aid agency, Save the Children, says Islamist militants are beheading children as young as eleven in Mozambique’s northern province of Cabo Delgado. The agency observed in its report that more than two thousand, five hundred people have been killed, while seven hundred thousand others have fled their homes since an Islamist insurgency began in Mozambique…
The South Sudanese military has announced the death of three generals who died after becoming ill with Covid-19. It identified the three as David Manyot Barach, Elijah Alier Ayom and Mabior Maket. Burials would be organised by a committee in collaboration with the families of the deceased, the military said. Chief of Defence Forces Gen Johnson Juma…