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Why Africa should ‘stop eating one of its favourite foods’

Admin Editor September 19, 2019 47 0

Zambia’s vice-president has called for a radical change in the eating habits of the nation, saying people should ditch the staple, maize meal, for more nutritious foods – a proposal akin to telling Italians to stop eating pasta. Maize meal is hugely popular across much of southern Read More

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Cameron and the Queen: Palace ‘displeasure’ over comments

Admin Editor September 19, 2019 21 0

David Cameron’s revelation that he sought help from the Queen ahead of the Scottish independence vote in 2014 has caused displeasure at Buckingham Palace, a source has said. The former PM told the BBC he had asked whether the Queen could “raise an eyebrow” about the prospect of Scotland voting for independence. The Queen later […]Read More

Business World

Huawei Mate 30 phones launch without Google apps

Admin Editor September 19, 2019 30 0

Huawei has launched its latest smartphones without many of the apps typically pre-installed on Android handsets. The Mate 30 and Mate 30 Pro both lack YouTube, Google Maps and Gmail among other software. They also do not feature Google’s Play Store, which is the normal way users outside China install third-party software on to Android […]Read More

World

Tunisia’s ousted ex-president Ben Ali dies in exile

Admin Editor September 19, 2019 15 0

Tunisia’s former President Zine el-Abidine Ben Ali has died in exile aged 83, his family says. Ben Ali led the country for 23 years and was credited with delivering stability and some economic prosperity. But he received widespread criticism for suppressing political freedoms and for widespread corruption. In 2011, he was forced from office following […]Read More

World

Tunisian presidential candidate ‘to stay in jail’

Admin Editor September 19, 2019 17 0

A court in Tunisia has refused to rule on a request to release jailed media mogul Nabil Karoui, who is due to take part in a presidential run-off expected sometime in October, his lawyer has told reporters. He and another political outsider, Kais Saied, saw off a crowded field of 24 other candidates in the […]Read More

World

Liberia school fire leaves many children dead near Monrovia

Admin Editor September 19, 2019 23 0

At least 27 people, many of them children, have been killed in a fire at a boarding school in a suburb of the Liberian capital Monrovia. The fire is believed to have broken out in the early hours of the morning, when Koranic school students were sleeping in a building near their mosque. Police have […]Read More

World

World’s biggest amphibian ‘discovered’ in museum

Admin Editor September 19, 2019 16 0

A newly-identified amphibian is possibly the largest on the planet, according to DNA from museum specimens. Reaching nearly two metres in length, the South China giant salamander is critically endangered in the wild. Scientists say renewed conservation efforts are needed if the animal is to be saved from extinction. Harvesting for the luxury food trade […]Read More

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Brexit: UK has 12 days to set out plans – Finnish PM

Admin Editor September 19, 2019 16 0

Boris Johnson has 12 days to set out his Brexit plans to the EU, according to Finland’s prime minister. Antti Rinne said he and French President Emmanuel Macron agreed the UK needed to produce the proposals in writing by the end of September, adding if not, “then it’s over”. Finland currently holds the EU’s rotating […]Read More

General World

FBI warns internet scammers

Editor Admin September 13, 2019 58 0

The Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), Christopher Wray has warned criminals involved in business email compromise (BEC) schemes that they will be arrested no matter where they carry out their illegal activities from. His comments were captured in an FBI statement released in the aftermath of 281 arrests worldwide relating to a […]Read More

General World

Xeno attacks: South Africa president to skip UN meeting

Editor Admin September 13, 2019 35 0

South Africa’s President Cyril Ramaphosa will not attend the UN General Assembly meeting in New York later this month. Instead, he says he will stay in the country to focus on “critical” domestic issues including the recent spate of xenophobic violence and the spate of attacks on women. Mr Ramaphosa “decided to remain in South […]Read More

World

Zimbabwe settles row to give Mugabe hero’s burial

Admin Editor September 13, 2019 50 0

Zimbabwe’s former President Robert Mugabe will be buried in the National Heroes Acre monument in Harare, his family says, following a row with the government over his final resting site. Family spokesman and nephew Leo Mugabe says the date is yet to be determined. Before that there will be a public ceremony at the shrine […]Read More

World

Democratic debate: Biden, Warren and Sanders spar over healthcare

Admin Editor September 13, 2019 42 0

Three frontrunners in the race to become Democratic Party candidate for US president have clashed over healthcare at the party’s third debate. The debate in Houston, Texas, was the first time Joe Biden, Elizabeth Warren and Bernie Sanders faced off on stage. Former Texas lawmaker Beto O’Rourke drew some of the biggest applause with an […]Read More

World

Boko Haram: Residents flee as terrorists attack towns in Borno

Admin Editor September 13, 2019 31 0

Barely 24 hours after Borno State Governor, Babagana Umara Zulum presented four patrol vehicle to the Civilian Joint Task Force also known as CJTF and hunters when he visited Gajiganna to strengthen resilience among the residents and to ensure the security of lives and properties, the insurgents attacked the area, thereby forcing hundreds to flee […]Read More

General World

TB Joshua speaks on 2014 SCOAN building collapse

Admin Editor September 13, 2019 28 0

Five years after the collapse of a guesthouse at The Synagogue Church Of All Nations (SCOAN), Pastor T.B. Joshua has honoured the memory of the deceased. On September 12, 2014, 115 people lost their lives in the incident, 84 of them South African nationals. “A Christian does not consider death to be his end but […]Read More

Lifestyle World

Zambians urged to cut down on maize meal staple food

Admin Editor September 11, 2019 46 0

  Zambia’s Vice-President Inonge Wina has advised Zambians to switch to what she says are more nutritious foods as opposed to relying on the staple food maize meal – known here as nshima. Nshima is served with almost every meal in Zambia. Severe hunger has been reported in certain parts of the country following last […]Read More

World

Zimbabweans line up to welcome Mugabe’s body

Admin Editor September 11, 2019 32 0

People are gathering at the airport in Zimbabwe’s capital, Harare, for the arrival of the plane from Singapore carrying the body of the country’s former President, Robert Mugabe. The government has shared this video from the Robert Gabriel Mugabe International Airport: Social embed from twitter Ministry of Information, Publicity & Broadcasting@InfoMinZW Read More

General World

Gold-eating rooster slaughtered to recover owner’s earring

Admin Editor September 11, 2019 71 0

A gold-eating rooster in Ethiopia has been slaughtered – and is likely to provide a new year’s feast for the woman who was forced to buy him to recover an earring. Hachaltu Bedira had gone to the market in Woliso, Oromia state, to sell chickens – and had not intended to go home with a […]Read More

World

Analysis: Biya’s call for dialogue in Cameroon

Admin Editor September 11, 2019 33 0

Cameroon’s President Paul Biya has announced plans for major talks to end the conflict in the English-speaking regions of the country, where separatist fighters are demanding independence. Keen political observers here have pointed out that initially Mr Biya had hoped the separatist fighters would run out of steam, and their demands would die a natural […]Read More

Entertainment World

Sex lives of app users ‘shared with Facebook’

Admin Editor September 11, 2019 34 0

Intimate data, including when people have had sex, is being shared with Facebook, a study from Privacy International has suggested. PI studied a range of period-tracking apps to see exactly what information was shared with the social network. It included details such as what contraception was used, when periods were due and the type of symptoms […]Read More

General World

Mugabe’s body arrives home from Singapore

Admin Editor September 11, 2019 35 0

The body of Robert Mugabe has arrived back in Zimbabwe after a private flight from Singapore, where he died last week aged 95. Mr Mugabe was Zimbabwe’s first leader after the country became independent in 1980. He held on to power for almost four decades before being ousted in a coup in 2017. He will […]Read More

World

UK parliamentary suspension ruled ‘unlawful’

Admin Editor September 11, 2019 34 0

Boris Johnson’s suspension of the UK Parliament is unlawful, Scotland’s highest civil court has ruled. A panel of three judges at the Court of Session found in favour of a cross-party group of politicians who were challenging the prime minister’s move. The judges said the PM was attempting to prevent Parliament holding the government to […]Read More

General World

Defeat malaria in a generation – here’s how

Admin Editor September 9, 2019 43 0

The world could be free of malaria – one of the oldest and deadliest diseases to affect humanity – within a generation, a major report says. Each year there are still more than 200 million cases of the disease, which mostly kills young children. The report says eradicating malaria is no longer a distant dream, […]Read More

World

South Africa: Nigeria to repatriate 600 citizens amid violence

Admin Editor September 9, 2019 55 0

Nigeria says it will repatriate some 600 citizens from South Africa after a wave of xenophobic violence which led to tensions between the two countries. Some will leave on two flights on Wednesday, Nigeria’s Consul General in Johannesburg told the BBC. Ten people, including two foreigners, were killed in the city last week when mobs […]Read More

General World

Robert Mugabe died a bitter man – nephew

Admin Editor September 9, 2019 70 0

Robert Mugabe’s nephew has said the former Zimbabwean leader died a “very bitter” man. Mr Mugabe, who died aged 95 last week, led Zimbabwe for nearly four decades until he was ousted by a coup in 2017. “Imagine people you trusted – people that were guarding you, looking after you – [turning] against you,” Leo […]Read More

World

Juul ‘ignored law’ in US e-cigarette adverts

Admin Editor September 9, 2019 38 0

US regulators have sent a warning letter to Juul Labs, saying the e-cigarette company violated US law by promoting its products as safer than traditional cigarettes. The firm must have sign-off from the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to make such a claim. The warning comes as officials probe an outbreak of deadly lung illness potentially […]Read More

World

Brexit: Parliament suspension to go ahead later

Admin Editor September 9, 2019 39 0

The five-week suspension of Parliament will begin later, after MPs are expected to again reject government calls for a snap election. Opposition MPs confirmed they would not back the push for a 15 October poll, insisting a law blocking a no-deal Brexit must be implemented first. Ministers have called the law “lousy” and said they […]Read More

General World

I saw Mugabe’s death in a dream – Nephew

Editor Admin September 6, 2019 37 0

Albert Mugabe, a nephew of the late president of Zimbabwe, Robert Mugabe, said he learnt of the passing of his “father” in a dream before later confirming it in reality. Mugabe, Zimbabwe’s first post-independence leader, died at the age of 95. He died after battling ill health in Singapore. Speaking in an interview with Morning […]Read More

General World

Xenophobia attacks: Shoprite, PEP shut as police take over mall, MTN outlets in Nigeria

Admin Editor September 5, 2019 39 0

With the waves of attacks on South African businesses in various parts of Nigeria in alleged retaliation over xenophobic attacks on Nigerians by South Africans, Shoprite and PEP outlets in Akure, the Ondo State capital on Wednesday shut its doors on customers over fear of attack. Also to prevent that South African stores in the […]Read More

World

Xenophobia: RCCG leader Adeboye breaks silence

Admin Editor September 5, 2019 39 0

The General Overseer of the Redeemed Christian Church of God, RCCG, Pastor Enoch Adejare Adeboye, on Wednesday appealed for an end to violence in Nigeria and South Africa. Many Nigerians have in recent months come under attack in South Africa. The latest onslaught has snowballed into large scale violence which has led to reprisals in […]Read More

World

Xenophobia: Fani-Kayode hails Buhari, says South Africa ‘must pay’

Admin Editor September 5, 2019 34 0

Former Aviation Minister, Femi Fani-Kayode, has commended President Muhammadu Buhari and the federal government for shunning the World Economic Forum (WEF) holding in South Africa. The government took the decision in response to the xenophobic attacks on Nigerians. The Forum, which kicked off on Wednesday, had no Nigerian delegation in attendance. Other African countries Read More