Year: 2021
FOREIGN EXODUS AS WAR ESCALATES IN ETHIOPIA
By: Ollus Ndomu The latest turn of events in the escalating Ethiopia-Tigray war has prompted an exodus of foreign nationals from the country...
ZAMBIA: More chaos in PF as Kambwili mobilizes anti-Lungu protests
By: Ollus Ndomu The former ruling Patriotic Front -PF- has fallen into chaos 48 hours after a statement by the party's highest decision...
NIGERIA: Lagos gas explosion kills five
By: Ollus Ndomu Five people including a teenager have been killed in a Lagos state gas explosion, local media report. Eyewitnesses quoted by...
UGANDA: Six die in Kampala blasts
By: Ollus Ndomu At least six people have been reported dead following explosions that hit the capital, Kampala, on Monday morning. Three of...
EDITORIAL: DEATH SHOULD NOT SANITIZE THE EVILS OF SOUTH AFRICA’s DE KLERK
By: Ollus Ndomu Hours after the passing on of South Africa's last apartheid President, FW De KLERK, international media were buzzing with colonized...
ZAMBIA: Tribal venom sinking the SATA-nic boat
By: Ollus Ndomu The immediate past ruling Patriotic Front –PF- has sunk into deep chaos as party presidency succession bids have disintegrated into...
ETHIOPIA: US hopeful diplomacy will restore peace
By: Ollus Ndomu United States Secretary of State Antony Blinken has expressed optimism that diplomacy will help end the ever escalating Ethiopia internal...
MOZAMBIQUE: Nyusi fires Defence Minister amidst securities scandals
President Filipe Nyusi has with immediate effect dismissed the country’s national defence minister, Jaime Augusto Neto, amidst security scandals including corruption, kidnappings, murders...
ESWATINI: Nurses take to the streets over food and drug shortages
By: Ollus Ndomu Several hundreds of nurses in Eswatini’s capital, Mbabane, have taken to the streets over the prevailing food and drug shortages,...
SIERRA LEONE: Mass burial for explosion victims blood shortage looms
By: Ollus Ndomu Over hundred people who were killed in Friday's massive fuel tanker explosion in Sierra Leone’s capital, Freetown, have been buried...
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