Lisa Mugo Twitter was buzzing on Sunday after a man posted a picture of South African residents growing plants in potholes. In the picture, residents are seen planting green leafy plants in the massive potholes. They even added soil and water to ensure the plants thrive in their new home. The move is said to […]
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Wayne Lumbasi Equatorial Guinea inflicted a first defeat in 36 games on Algeria this past Sunday to leave the reigning champions in serious danger of a group-stage exit. Esteban Obiang, scored the 70th-minute goal that gave his side a 1-0 win in Douala as Algeria lost for the first time since October 2018.This has ended […]
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Staff writer The Pan-African Payments and Settlement System (PAPSS) finally launches in Accra Ghana. The theme of the event was “Connecting Payments, Accelerating Africa’s trade.” PAPSS will enable merchants to trade with ease, taking out the laborious currency exchange exercise which is dogged with currency fluctuations and multilayered exchanges. The number of currencies in Africa […]
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Avellon Williams HISTORY OF CUAJINICUILAPA, MEXICO- Despite the fact that people of African descent have made significant contributions to Mexican history and culture, their contributions have not been taught or widely recognized. You can find out about them by visiting Cuajinicuilapa: said to be one of the blacklist towns in Mexico. Mexico’s statistics institute estimated the Afro-Mexican […]
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Avellon Williams HARARE– Zimbabwean inventor Maxwell Chikumbutso has taken the first steps into the future of technology by developing a cordless television with the capability to power 2 x 100W bulbs to illuminate rooms with no electricity. Rural dwellers with no access to main power lines have viewed the innovation as inclusive. With the help […]
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Faith Nyasuguta A professor in a Morocco university will spend two years behind bars for “indecent assault with violence” in a case of sexual blackmail against female students in exchange for good grades. Local media report that the economics professor at Hassan I University in Settat was convicted with “indecent assault”, “violence” and “sexual harassment” […]
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Faith Nyasuguta In South Africa, a regional health minister is under attack for telling school girls to “open your books and close your legs”. Minister Phophi Ramathuba made the statement during a visit to a secondary school in a bid to promote abstinence and shrink teenage pregnancy rates. Netizens criticized the remark and questioned why […]
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Avellon Williams QUEBEC, CANADA- As a result of the father’s lack of vaccination against COVID-19, a Canadian judge temporarily suspended his right to see his child in Quebec. Canadian newspaper Le Devoir reported on Dec. 23 that Superior Court Judge Jean-Sébastien Vaillancourt ruled that contact with the child’s father was not in the child’s best interest “if […]
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Faith Nyasuguta Uganda’s National Unity Platform (NUP) leader Robert Kyagulanyi, alias Bobi Wine, has directed his supporters to wear the red beret, resurrecting the battle between the army and his camp on the dress code about a year later. “As the leaders of NUP, we shall resume the wearing of the red beret after all […]
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Avellon Williams PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti — With the assassination of Haiti’s former president Jovenel Moise and the country’s descent into chaos, Prime Minister Ariel Henry took control of the government and was tasked with bringing the killers to justice and healing the country. Evidence has now emerged suggesting Henry did maintain communications with a suspect – and that they remained in close […]
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