Ekeomah Atuonwu The President of Zambia, Hakainde Hichilema, who is widely regarded as one of Zambia’s wealthiest businessmen with a reported net worth of nearly $390 million, announced today that he has not received any salary payments since taking office in August. Prior to becoming Zambia’s president, Hichilema, who made his fortune through farming and […]
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Ekeomah Atuonwu Scientists believe they have discovered the first fossil associated with the catastrophic asteroid event that wiped out the dinosaurs. The dinosaur leg has been described as “stunningly preserved,” with skin still attached. The leg was discovered as part of a group of remains discovered at the Tanis fossil site in North Dakota, USA, […]
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Ekeomah Atuonwu Former Burkina Faso President Roch Kabore, who has been under house arrest since being deposed in a military coup in January, has been allowed to return to his family home, the country’s interim government announced on Wednesday. West African leaders asked the junta last month to release the ex-president and set a “more acceptable” timeline […]
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Ekeomah Atuonwu China has launched a new Earth observation satellite from the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center in northwest China. Gaofen-3 03 was launched by a Long March-4C rocket at 7:47 a.m. (Beijing Time) and successfully entered the planned orbit. The satellite will link up with the Gaofen-3 and Gaofen-3 02 satellites in orbit to form a land-sea radar satellite […]
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Ekeomah Atuonwu Moxico Resources (IPO-MOXI.L) of the United Kingdom plans to invest $100 million to expand its majority-owned Mimbula copper mine in Zambia, according to UK Minister for Africa Vicky Ford. Ford stated in a statement released by the British High Commission in Zambia while on a visit to the country that the investment will create new […]
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Ekeomah Atuonwu Burkina Faso’s former president Blaise Compaore has been sentenced to life for complicity in the 1987 murder of his predecessor Thomas Sankara in a coup, a military tribunal ruled on Wednesday. Sankara, a charismatic Marxist revolutionary, was assassinated at the age of 37 in the West African nation’s capital, Ouagadougou, four years after […]
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Ekeomah Atuonwu Suspected rebels using machetes and guns to attack a village in eastern Congo have killed at least a dozen civilians, according to Congo’s army and a survivor. According to army spokesman Captain Anthony Mwalushayi, the attack was carried out late on Sunday in Masambo, about 50 kilometers from the city of Beni, by fighters affiliated with […]
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Ekeomah Atuonwu A Nigerian atheist and outspoken religious critic was sentenced to 24 years in prison on Tuesday after pleading guilty to blasphemy charges in the predominantly Muslim northern state of Kano, in a ruling that highlights the country’s religious freedoms. Mubarak Bala’s charges stem from comments he made on Facebook in April 2020 that were critical […]
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Ekeomah Atuonwu The whereabouts of 168 passengers are still unknown one week after gunmen attacked a train with explosives in northwestern Nigeria, according to the Nigerian Railway Corporation (NRC). On March 28, at least eight people were killed and many more were injured when gunmen detonated a bomb on the train tracks and opened fire […]
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Ekeomah Atuonwu Schools and universities in Iran have reopened for the first time since the coronavirus pandemic began more than two years ago. Students and teachers in Iran were required to attend classes in person beginning on Sunday, which coincided with the start of the Muslim holy month of Ramadan. Some schools and universities had […]
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