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Nigeria often faces seasonal floods, particularly impacting communities along the banks of the Niger and Benue rivers

At least 88 people dead after floods submerge market town in Nigeria

LAGOS — At least 88 people have been confirmed dead after floods submerged Mokwa, a market town in Nigeria’s Niger State, on Thursday, an official said.Husseini Isah, head of the operations office in Minna, capital of Niger State, said that many more are still at risk, with rescue efforts underway on Friday. Earlier reports said at least 20 died.“The number keeps rising,” Isah told The Associated Press. “But at the last count, 88 bodies have been recovered.”The floods were triggered by torrential rains that lasted several hours. According to local reports quoting residents and local government officials, a dam collapse in a nearby town worsened the situation.Mokwa is a major meeting point for traders from the south and food growers in the north of the country.In a similar...

May 30, 2025

At least 88 people dead after floods submerge market town in Nigeria

Olorato Mongale's murder has sparked public outrage and calls for justice

Suspect in South African student's murder killed in police shootout

JOHANNESBURG — A suspect wanted for the murder of a South African university student has been killed in a shootout with police.The man had been linked to the death of Olorato Mongale, whose body was found in Johannesburg on Sunday, about two hours after she was reported missing having gone on a date.In the early hours of Friday morning, police officers found the main suspect hiding at a residential complex in the coastal town of Amanzimtoti, police spokesperson Athlenda Mathe said.The suspect, who has not been named by the police, shot at the officers, who returned fire and killed him, Brigadier Mathe added.Regional police commissioner Nhlanhla Mkhwanazi said that at the time of the suspect's death, he had 28 ID cards and a dozen mobile phones in his possession.Ms Mongale's death...

May 30, 2025

Suspect in South African student's murder killed in police shootout

The presidential jet's landing gear malfunctioned, authorities say

Plane carrying Liberian president involved in landing scare

MONROVIA — Flights were temporarily disrupted at Liberia main airport on Thursday night after a private jet carrying President Joseph Boakai almost crashed while landing.Part of the presidential jet's landing gear malfunctioned while approaching the runway, causing a rough landing, airport authorities said.The incident, which sparked panic at the airport, forced the cancellation of all scheduled flights for the night, local media reported.President Boakai, who was returning from a trip in Nigeria with his entourage, was safely evacuated unharmed, as authorities announced an investigation.Photos of the stalled jet at the Roberts International Airport (RIA) circulated on social media, triggering concerns about the president's safety.Local media, citing airport authorities, said one...

May 30, 2025

Plane carrying Liberian president involved in landing scare

Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o

Giant of African literature Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o dies aged 87

NAIROBI — Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o, who has died aged 87, was a titan of modern African literature — a storyteller who refused to be bound by jail, exile and illness.His work spanned roughly six decades, primarily documenting the transformation of his country — Kenya — from a colonial subject to a democracy.Ngũgĩ was tipped to win the Nobel Prize for Literature countless times, leaving fans dismayed each time the medal slipped through his fingers.He will be remembered not only as a Nobel-worthy writer, but also as a fierce proponent of literature written in native African languages.Ngũgĩ was born James Thiong’o Ngũgĩ in 1938, when Kenya was under British colonial rule. He grew up in the town of Limuru among a large family of low-income agricultural workers.His parents...

May 29, 2025

Giant of African literature Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o dies aged 87

Natasha Akpoti-Uduaghan was suspended from the Senate after making sexual harassment allegations

Nigerian government sues senator over assassination claims

LAGOS — The Nigerian government has pressed charges against a senator who accused one of the country's top politicians of plotting to kill her.In April, Natasha Akpoti-Uduaghan alleged that Godswill Akpabio, the Senate president, and Yahaya Bello, a former state governor, wanted to "eliminate" her. Both have denied the accusation.Weeks before, Akpoti-Uduaghan had accused the Senate president of sexually harassing her - an allegation he has also denied.The government has now filed charges with the High Court, saying Akpoti-Uduaghan's assassination allegation defamed Akpabio and Bello.In the charge sheet, seen by the BBC, Nigeria's attorney general referenced a live interview broadcast by Nigeria's Channels TV last month.In the interview, Akpoti-Uduaghan spoke of...

May 23, 2025

Nigerian government sues senator over assassination claims

Smoke billows after drone strikes by the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) targeted Port Sudan, Sudan, on 6 May, 2025

US to impose sanctions on Sudan after alleged use of chemical weapons

WASHINGTON — The US has announced new sanctions on Sudan after accusing the military-run government of using chemical weapons last year against its opponents in the ongoing civil war.In a statement released on Thursday, State Department spokesperson Tammy Bruce said the Sudanese junta had violated the Chemical Weapons Convention (CWC)."The United States calls on the government of Sudan to cease all chemical weapons use and uphold its obligations under the CWC," she said in a statement.Under the terms of the CWC, signatories must destroy their stockpiles of chemical weapons.Bruce did not give details about where and when the banned weapons are alleged to have been used.However, the New York Times reported earlier this year, citing senior US officials, that Sudanese government...

May 23, 2025

US to impose sanctions on Sudan after alleged use of chemical weapons

President Donald Trump meets South African President Cyril Ramaphosa in the Oval Office of the White House, Wednesday, May 21, 2025, in Washington

Trump confronts South Africa's Ramaphosa with baseless claims of systematic killing of white farmers

WASHINGTON — US President Donald Trump used a White House meeting to forcefully confront South African President Cyril Ramaphosa, accusing the country of failing to address Trump's baseless claim of the systematic killing of white farmers.In an astonishing display, Trump even dimmed the lights in the Oval Office to play a video of a far-left politician singing a song with the lyrics “kill the farmer.”He also reviewed news articles to emphasise his argument, stating that the nation's white farmers have encountered “death, death, death, horrible death.”Trump had previously terminated all US aid to South Africa and extended a welcome to numerous white South African farmers, granting them refugee status in the United States, while advocating the notion that a...

May 22, 2025

Trump confronts South Africa's Ramaphosa with baseless claims of systematic killing of white farmers

Augustin Matata Ponyo (pictured here in 2012) served as the Democratic Republic of Congo's prime ministers for four years, leaving office in 2016

Former DR Congo PM sentenced to hard labor on corruption charge

NAIROBI — A former prime minister of the Democratic Republic of Congo has been sentenced to a decade's forced labor for corruption.Augustin Matata Ponyo was found guilty of embezzling about $245m (£182m) of public funds by the Congolese Constitutional Court on Tuesday, alongside Deogratias Mutombo, the former governor of the DR Congo's central bank.Matata's lawyer told Reuters news agency that the ruling was unfair and politically motivated.Part of the funds were taken from a major agricultural development intended to tackle the country's chronic food shortages.Matata served as prime minister of the DRC from 2012 to 2016 and now heads the country's Leadership and Governance for Development party (LGD).Prior to his premiership, he was finance minister and received...

May 21, 2025

Former DR Congo PM sentenced to hard labor on corruption charge

Martha Karua was interrogated for several hours by Tanzanian authorities, her party says

Kenya's ex-justice minister 'deported' from Tanzania

NAIROBI — Leading Kenyan lawyer and the country's former Justice Minister Martha Karua says she has been deported from Tanzania to prevent her from attending the court case of opposition leader Tundu Lissu.Two colleagues accompanying her were also reportedly detained and deported after flying in from neighboring Kenya.Former Kenyan chief justice Willy Mutunga and other prominent rights activists who later traveled there over Lissu's case said they were stopped and held at the airport. Tanzanian authorities have not yet commented.Lissu, who is the leader of Tanzania's main opposition Chadema party, is appearing in court on Monday after being charged with treason last month.Kenya's top foreign affairs official Korir Sing'oei has "strongly urged" the Tanzanian...

May 19, 2025

Kenya's ex-justice minister 'deported' from Tanzania

South African President Cyril Ramaphosa arrives at Kazan International Airport in in Kazan, Russia, Tuesday, Oct. 22, 2024

South Africa's President Ramaphosa says Afrikaners resettling in US are 'cowards'

JOHANNESBURG — Afrikaners who have resettled in the US under a controversial refugee scheme, labeling them "cowards".The white South Africans arrived in the US on Monday after being granted refugee status by the Trump administration, which says they face racial discrimination at home.South Africa's government has strongly disputed Washington's claims that Afrikaners are being persecuted.Ramaphosa said the group of Afrikaners were relocating to the US because they were not in favor of efforts aimed at addressing the country's challenges and apartheid past."As South Africans, we are resilient," Ramaphosa said at an agricultural event in the Free State province on Monday."We don't run away from our problems. We must stay here and solve our problems....

May 14, 2025

South Africa's President Ramaphosa says Afrikaners resettling in US are 'cowards'

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