Faith Nyasuguta Ten African game development studios have come together under one umbrella, the Pan Africa Gaming Group (PAGG), in a bid to unify Africa’s gaming sector, which is presently fragmented. The association is further looking to drive the uptake of gaming in the continent, and grow developer talent. The announcement was made against the […]
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Faith Nyasuguta The Ethiopian Human Rights Commission (EHRC) has said that government forces were responsible for burning a Tigrayan man alive, a barbaric act widely-circulated in an online video that sparked outrage on social media. The Ethiopian government on Saturday said it will act against the perpetrators after the video emerged on social media showing […]
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Avellon Williams UKRAINE- Many Ukrainians have been forced to hide in basements and subway stations across the country due to the influx of Russian forces. Children have seen war up close and personal. Families have been forced to flee, leaving their fathers and homes, jumping on trains or buses with their children, and walking miles […]
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Ekeomah Atuonwu The United Nations World Food Programme (UNEP) has warned that the Horn of Africa is experiencing the driest conditions recorded since 1981. Severe drought has left an estimated 13 million people across Ethiopia, Kenya, and Somalia facing severe hunger in the first quarter of this year. The Horn of Africa is a large […]
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Avellon Williams KINGSTON, JAMAICA- Providing inmates with food at the island’s correctional facilities costs the government over half a billion dollars a year. Obtaining figures from the Jamaica Observer, one inmate in 2020 would cost $13,000 to feed each month, and the island’s prison population is estimated at approximately 3,700. For the current fiscal year, revised […]
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Ekeomah Atuonwu The death toll from a cyclone that struck Mozambique 🇲🇿 this week climbed to 12 on Sunday after devastating wind and rain lashed the southern African country. Cyclone Gombe has affected more than 30,000 people, injuring 40, and destroyed more than 3,000 homes since making landfall on Friday. In the port city of […]
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Lisa Mugo Nigerian super star David Adeleke alias Davido has been gifted land in Banana Island, Nigeria by his father Adedeji Adeleke. The ‘Champion Sound’ singer shared the good news with his Twitter followers letting them know that he woke up to yet another sweet, unexpected surprise from his father. “Woke up to another Land from popsi in banana again ! Such a […]
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Oliver Meth Zimbabwean millers have raised prices for staple maize meal and flour, as the Russia-Ukraine conflict pushed up global grain and fertiliser costs, inflating the risk of hunger in a nation already fragile from Covid-19 and economic mismanagement. The association of private millers said Zimbabwe, which expects to import 155,000 tonnes of wheat this […]
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Ekeomah Atuonwu At least 13 gendarmes were murdered in an ambush on Sunday in Taparko, a mining town in northern Burkina Faso that is frequently targeted by Islamist fighters, according to security sources. A number of other gendarmes were also missing, according to the source, in addition to the 13 confirmed deceased. Another security source indicated that reinforcements […]
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Ekeomah Atuonwu According to rail officials and the communications ministry, the death toll in a train disaster in the southeastern Democratic Republic of Congo has been revised upward to 75, with 125 people injured. On Saturday, officials said on Saturday that a freight service train derailed on Thursday night, killing 60 men, women, and children and […]
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