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Nelson Mandela’s granddaughter, Zoleka Mandela, has died of cancer aged 43, her family said, on Tuesday. Known for having detailed her long battle against the disease, the author was admitted into hospital on Monday as part of her ongoing…

As Russian President Vladimir Putin prepares to meet North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, the United States has threatened to “aggressively” enforce existing sanctions and add new ones if Pyongyang provides weapons to Moscow for its war in…

At least 2,681 people died in the strongest-ever earthquake to hit Morocco, the interior ministry said on Monday, revising an earlier toll of nearly 2,500 dead. Another 2,501 people were injured, the ministry said, as rescue workers race…

Guinea-Bissau’s President, Umaro Sissoco Embalo, has appointed two new officials to protect his security, who took up their duties, on Monday, with the head of state alluding to coups d’etat elsewhere in Africa AFP reports. AFP said that…

Gabon’s opposition leader has accused the family of the recently ousted president of engineering his removal from power in order to retain their control in the oil-rich Central African nation, saying that, on Friday, that he should have won…

Following Wednesday’s coup in Gabon, President Bola Tinubu has expressed concern that a contagion of autocracy was spreading across Africa. President Tinubu said he was working very closely with other Heads of States in the African Union…

A former Governor of Ekiti State, Mr. Ayo Fayose, on Friday, expressed his excitement about the recent coup that happened in Gabon, a Central African country. Recall that a dozen soldiers had appeared on Gabonese national television on…

Wole Adedeji, Ilorin. Victims of the 2022 flood in Kwara State at the weekend got relief materials from the National Emergency Management Agency, NEMA. The materials distributed included agricultural inputs, food items,…

Lamine Zeine, Niger’s new Prime Minister, has boasted that his country would overcome the sanctions imposed on the country, following a bloodless coup which toppled the democratically-elected President Mohamed Bazoum. Zeine, who was…

Iranian security forces have arrested eight foreign suspects after detaining a gunman in the killing of one person at a Shi'ite Muslim shrine, state media reported, on Monday. The attack came less than a year after a mass shooting at the…