BBA contestant Siyanda Ngwenya dropped for raping inmate
EntertainmentBig Brother Africa expelled contestant Siyanda Ngwenya after being accused of raping one of his female housemates. He allegedly attacked...
Former Australian based model from Somalia killed for ISIS
News SomaliaSharky Jama, ex-model and DJ shot dead while fighting alongside ISIS militants in Syria on Monday, April 13th. Hussein Harakow, president...
Angola: Art has a home in Benfica, President Santos attends opening
Angola EntertainmentThe President of the Republic, José Eduardo dos Santos, yesterday inaugurated the Benfica Art Center, which includes the new and modern ha...
Members of China's Linyi missile frigate help evacuate nationals from Yemen to Djibouti
Djibouti NewsEastday - China's Linyi missile frigate members help foreign nationals evacuate from Yemen and arrive in Djibouti, April 2, 2015. A...
Algeria moves its citizens from Yemen
Algeria NewsAFP - Algeria evacuated 160 of its citizens from war-torn Yemen as a Saudi-led coalition continued a bombing campaign against rebel targe...
Police discovers major attack plot in Mali's capital
Mali NewsYahoo! - Detectives investigating an explosion at a house in the capital of Mali, Bamako, that killed a security guard on Friday said they...
South Africas top comedian Noah is the new US "The Daily Show" host
Entertainment South AfricaAssociated Press — The choice of South African comic Trevor Noah as Jon Stewart's replacement on "The Daily Show" advances a...
A new Ebola case reported in the district of Sierra Leone
News Sierra LeoneReuters - Sierra Leone's eastern district of Kailahun, once a hotbed of Ebola, has recorded its first case in nearly four months, thr...
Ebola vaccine tested in Guinea, Liberia & Sierra Leone
Guinea Liberia News Sierra LeoneMirror - An Ebola jab is being given to people living in the West African areas hit most by the virus after human trials in unaffected co...
Romanian expatriate abducted by armed men in Burkina Faso
Burkina Faso NewsBurkina Faso - A Romanian expatriate working for a company operating manganese in Tambao, in the north of the country was abducted by fiv...
Attack of Garissa in Kenya, five suspects arrested
Kenya News SomaliaThe Kenyan authorities have announced today, April 4, they have arrested five people in addition to the four assailants slaughtered durin...
Senegal removes visa fee and lower airport taxes to boost tourism
EconomyFrom next month May 1, 2015, the visa fee at the entrance of Senegal will be removed as announced. Airport taxes will be also reduced by...
Making people laugh has become top business in Africa
Business Nigeria South AfricaBBC gets behind Africa's lucrative comedy business and discussed with the continent's most popular comedians. Nigerian Bright ...
New public contracts for major Cameroon banks and insurance companies
Business CameroonCameroon - Government has chosen twelve popular banks and three insurance companies for public contracts. A list of the banking establis...
Tension mounts around President Nkurunziza's candidacy
Burundi NewsBurundi: Three months before the presidential elections in Burundi, the tension continues to rise around a third candidacy of President ...
17-year-old heart transplant patient dies during police chase
InternationalATLANTA (AP) — An Atlanta area teenager who said a heart transplant two years ago gave him a second chance at life died this week when he ...
France wanted tougher Iran outline as report reveals US concessions
InternationalU.S. negotiators repeatedly shifted their goals during talks over Iran's nuclear program in response to intransigence from Tehran'...
Diageo buying remaining 50% of UNB's South Africas beer business
BusinessSouth Africa - Diageo, the world's largest spirits maker, said it had agreed to acquire control of United National Breweries beer busi...
Britain's leaders' TV debate ahead May 2015 election
InternationalDavid Cameron, Ed Miliband, Nigel Farage, Nicola Sturgeon and the other party leaders go head to head in the live debate on ITV - follow l...
Singing legend Yvonne Chaka Chaka gets vocal about Zimbabwe leader
Entertainment South Africa ZimbabweZimbabwe - South African songstress Yvonne Chaka Chaka has made a volte-farce over the omission of President Robert Mugabe from her 2010 s...
Lupita Nyong'o Uganda movie project starts
Entertainment KenyaOn Saturday, Lupita Nyong'o attended a fundraising event in Uganda ahead of commencing on the shooting of the Disney movie, Queen Of ...
Al-Shabab deadly Kenya university attack
Kenya NewsKenya - Al-Shabab targets Kenya university in deadly attack. Armed terrorists stormed a university in northern Kenya on Thursday, killin...