Nigeria’s President Muhammadu Buhari has been re-elected for a second four-year term. His main rival, runner-up Atiku Abubakar, has called the election a “sham” and vowed to challenge the result in court. Here are five things we’ve learnt from an election marred by controversy. 1. It broke records – for the wrong reasons With 73 million able to vote, this… Read more »
Senegal’s President Macky Sall has won a second seven-year term following Sunday’s election. He took 58% of the vote in the poll in which he faced four challengers, but was accused of preventing some of his main rivals from running. Two well-known opposition figures were barred from taking part because of corruption convictions. Mr Sall was first elected in 2012…. Read more »
A fire believed to have been started by illegal marijuana farmers is threatening tens of thousands of hectares of bamboo forest in Mount Kenya. It has already destroyed 80 square kilometres of moorland and is now threatening indigenous forests The blaze, which started six days ago, is burning on two fronts and is spread by high temperatures and strong winds…. Read more »
Many mothers around the world suffer from problems related to giving birth to twins. The twins also suffer as they are more likely to face issues regarding their heart rate and digestive system. This is especially bad in Lower Developed Countries, where they do not have good healthcare and hospitals. Most mothers give birth at home and that is extremely… Read more »
The Lancet Infectious Diseases study is the first to analyse death rates among twins in the region. The report suggests improvements in survival for twins is lagging far behind other children. The death rate among single-born children aged under-five halved between 1995 and 2014. For twins, the rate came down by a third. ‘Poor fate’ Giving birth to twins is… Read more »
A court in Zimbabwe has convicted a popular self-styled prophet of fraud and fined him $700 (£540) for falsely claiming he had a herbal cure for HIV and Aids. Walter Magaya earlier pleaded guilty to contravening the Medicines Control Act by selling an unapproved drug. Police arrested him in November, and seized a herbal drug which he said could cure… Read more »
A man who was arrested for attempting to smuggle his baby out of a hospital in the Kenyan capital Nairobi has been given a suspended sentence. Boniface Murage said he tried to carry his daughter out of Kenyatta National Hospital hidden in a paper bag as he could not afford to pay her medical bills. Some Kenyans sympathised with the… Read more »
Spending his days designing high-end residences for South Africa’s ultra rich, architect Tshepo Mokholo was miserable. Craving a change, Mokholo attended the influential Indaba Design conferencein Cape Town in early 2016, and listened to a pitch for the African Design Centre (ADC), a program seeking to shake up the highly unequal business of African architecture. Skyscrapers, trains and roads: How… Read more »
The goal of the summit would be to set the framework for nationwide polls to take place in October. The African Union (AU) has proposed a global conference in July to try to resolve the conflict in Libya with the aim of holding elections in October. A statement on Tuesday said the 55-member body would like to hold “an international conference on reconciliation in… Read more »
At least 60 miners were in the two disused shafts when they were flood on Tuesday, according to the government. At least 60 gold miners are feared dead in Zimbabwe after water flooded two disused shafts in a mining town southwest of Harare, a government minister has said. Roughly 60 to 70 “artisanal” miners were in the two shafts when they flooded… Read more »