Police in Kaduna have rescued over 300 people from a house where they had been chained and maltreated for at least three months. Police said the house, disguised an Islamic school and a rehabilitation camp, was operated by seven men, led by a 39-year-old identified as Ismaila Abubakar. The Kaduna State police spokesperson, Yakubu Sabo, told PREMIUM TIMES on Friday… Read more »
President Emmerson Mnangagwa has hinted he may not be entertaining any plans of seeking revenge against late former President Robert Mugabe’s widow, Grace, who has tormented him before. In a speech to several African heads of State and Government at a funeral ceremony held in honour of the country’s founding leader, Mnangagwa pledged his party’s support for Grace. “Allow me… Read more »
Just recently Zimbabwe’s tyrant ruler Robert Mugabe passed away. Zimbabweans all view this ruler very differently, all based on where they live, what the do professionally, what race and religion they are as well as their political affiliation. Mugabe rose through his Political party to become the Secretary General, a position that suited him very well. He was a strong… Read more »
Africa has always been an unstable region, especially since the modern era, but the continuing rising temperatures and change of weather patterns across the world is only helping to contribute to this instability, all while Africa itself develops and starts to produce fossil fuels of their own. In Ethiopia, the effects of consecutive droughts are taking their toll as less… Read more »
MAPUTO – Breakaway Mozambique rebels on Wednesday threatened to step up violence if campaigning is not suspended for upcoming elections – the first after a landmark peace deal – as they claimed responsibility for two recent car attacks. The country is gearing up for 15 October polls as it tries to shed a legacy of decades of unrest, following the… Read more »
September 18, 2019: More Nigerians repatriatedMore than 300 Nigerians arrived in the country’s commercial capital, Lagos on Wednesday, having been evacuated from South Africa, following the recent wave of xenophobic attacks. Local media reported that an Air Peace plane with 315 Nigerians aboard landed at the Murtala Muhammed International Airport on Wednesday night. This is the second batch of returnees,… Read more »
former President Robert Mugabe’s widow Grace Mugabe is not entertaining any plans to abandon the country and seek asylum elsewhere, a family spokesperson has said. Grace fell out with the now President Emmerson Mnangagwa in 2016 when she mounted a fierce campaign against a bid by the then State Vice President to position himself for takeover from her husband. The… Read more »
Southern Africa was the last region on the continent to obtain majority rule. The independence of Zimbabwe (1980), Namibia (1990) and democracy in South Africa (1994) ended white settler minority regimes. They were replaced in power by liberation movements. The Zimbabwe African National Union (Zanu, later Zanu-PF), the South West African People’s Organisation (Swapo) and the African National Congress (ANC)… Read more »
Sylvia remembers the first time a government official came to speak to her community in Lephalale, in the Limpopo province, about the construction of a new coal power plant. Like many other community members, she hoped that the plant would bring much-needed jobs and prosperity to her family. What she did not anticipate then was how the plant would… Read more »
Somalia faces a new humanitarian crisis with more than 2 million people now threatened by severe hunger, aid agencies say. A further 3 million people are uncertain of their next meal, latest assessments suggest. The new emergency comes two years after the threat of a major disaster in the unstable east African state was averted by timely aid from the… Read more »