OUAGADOUGOU, BURKINA FASO – The death toll from the worst militant attack in Burkina Faso in recent years has risen to 132, the government said Saturday, after armed assailants laid siege overnight to a village in the Islamist extremist-plagued northea…
BLANTRYE, MALAWI – Malawi President Lazarus Chakwera led a rollout Friday of a push for a second dose of the COVID-19 vaccine, with a strong call to Malawians to go for vaccination to prevent a third wave of the coronavirus pandemic. The call came a da…
YAOUNDE, CAMEROON – Authorities in Cameroon are battling vaccine hesitancy with only eleven percent of doses received since April dispensed, most of them due to travel requirements. Cameroon’s government and clergy have been struggling to get the publi…
ABUJA, NIGERIA – Millions of Nigerians struggled Saturday to access Twitter, a day after authorities suspended the service in response to the company’s deletion of a tweet by President Muhammadu Buhari for violating its terms of service.The Twitter ban…
POLOKWANE – The Provincial Commissioner of Police in Limpopo Lieutenant General Thembi Hadebe has greatly welcomed the hefty sentence meted out by the Limpopo Division of the High Court in Polokwane on Friday 04 June 2021 against a 52-year-old lawyer, …
GAUTENG – All communities serviced by Dunnottar police station are advised that the police station has been temporarily closed for decontamination after one of its members tested positive for Covid-19.The Community Service Centre will be operating from…
NORTHERN CAPE – The Acting Provincial Commissioner of the Northern Cape, Major General Johan Bean welcomed the 20 year prison sentence handed down in the Carnarvon Regional court on 02 June 2021 to the 19-year-old half-brother of the 7-year-old female …
NORTHERN CAPE – The Northern Cape SAPS welcomes the 15 year rape sentence that was handed down to a 31-year-old man in the Kathu Regional Court recently.On 24 August 2019 at about 01:30 the female victim was offered a lift by the known accused from a n…
GQEBERHA – The body of the woman found yesterday, 31 May 2021 was identified this morning by a relative. She was Humeleng Sephophatne (22) from Greenfields. She was last seen on Sunday, 30 May 2021 at about 16:00 in Greenfields.The murder investigation…
