Year: 2021
SOUTH AFRICA: UIF to give relief funds to riot-affected workers
By: Ollus Ndomu South Africa's Unemployment Insurance Fund (UIF) has called for applications for available temporary relief funds to all Gauteng and KwaZulu-Natal...
ZAMBIA: More abandon the sinking Titanic
By: Ollus Ndomu With less than three weeks after the former ruling Patriotic Front -PF- lost power to the alliance, United Party for...
EDITORIAL: TALIBAN INSPIRE BUHARI AND HIS ILK IN NIGERIA
By: Ukachuchwu Okorie When something is hitting a crescendo or extremely negative in Nigeria, they could say in pidgin English, 'e don de...
ZAMBIA: New govt still suffering from opposition syndrome
By: Ollus Ndomu Barely 11 days after ousting the brutal and corrupt Patriotic Front -PF- regime, the new ruling United Party for National...
TANZANIA: Two police officers shot dead outside French Embassy
By: Ollus Ndomu Two police men including an unidentified shooter have died following an armed confrontation outside the French Embassy in the capital,...
MOZAMBIQUE: Govt, Rwandan forces making the last major push against insurgents
By: Ollus Ndomu Mozambican and Rwandan forces are reported to have encircled Islamic Al-Shabaab militants in the country's northern Cabo Delgado province ahead...
IVORY COAST: First Ebola patient recovers
By: Ollus Ndomu Ivory Coast's Health Ministry has said the first person to catch the Ebola virus since 1994 has now recovered following...
NIGER: Govt forces kill 100 jihadists in border operation
By: Ollus Ndomu Atleast 100 jihadists have been killed by Niger's army in an operation conducted near the Burkina Faso border in south-west...
SOMALIA: Al-Shabaab seizes strategic town
By: Ollus Ndomu A strategic town in the central region of Somalia is said to have been captured by Al-Shabaab militants. Amara residents...
ZAMBIA: Democracy in the sun as Lungu hands over to Hichilema
By: Ollus Ndomu Zambia has once again experienced a peaceful transition, with former President Edgar Lungu handing-over the instruments of power to Hakainde...
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