News24.com | Popular Rwandan singer found dead in police cell: Police
A popular Rwandan gospel musician who in 2015 was found guilty of conspiracy to murder or harm President Paul Kagame was found dead in a police cell in the capital,…
News24.com | DRC halves budget in blow to Tshisekedi plans
The Democratic Republic of Congo must nearly halve government spending plans this year, the finance ministry said on Monday, in a blow to President Felix Tshisekedi’s much-touted anti-poverty schemes. The…
News24.com | Eswatini in the clear as suspected case of coronavirus turns out negative
The results of a suspected coronavirus case in Eswatini (formerly Swaziland) late last week have come back negative, the country’s health ministry said in a statement on Monday. The suspected…
News24.com | Niger stampede kills at least 20 at handout for refugees
Twenty people, many of them women and children, were trampled to death on Monday in a stampede for food and money for refugees in southeast Niger, sources said. “We have…
News24.com | Burnt to the bone: Uganda’s acid attack survivors seek justice
Ugandan university student Linette Kirungi was on her way to class when she heard footsteps behind her. The next thing she felt was liquid on her face – then burning…
News24.com | Twenty-four killed in Burkina Faso church attack
Gunmen have killed 24 people and wounded 18 in an attack on a Protestant church in a village in northern Burkina Faso, officials said Monday. In a separate incident, five…
News24.com | South Sudan rebels reject president’s peace compromise
South Sudan rebels rejected on Sunday a peace offer by President Salva Kiir to return to a system of 10 states, paving the way for a unity government. The rejection…
News24.com | Darfuris rejoice as Sudan agrees to hand Bashir to ICC
In Sudan’s sprawling Camp Kalma, people who fled the Darfur conflict are overjoyed at a pledge by the country’s new authorities to finally deliver ex-president Omar al-Bashir to the International…
News24.com | Bandits kill 30 in Nigeria attack – police
Armed gangs killed 30 people in raids on two villages in an area of northwest Nigeria plagued by cattle rustlers and kidnappers, police said on Sunday. READ | Three Nigerian…