Cape Town – From Police Minister Bheki Cele visiting the site where Hillary Gardee’s body was found; to the Horn of Africa drought putting 20 million people at risk of starvation… Read these and other stories making the headlines from around the African continent.
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Bheki Cele visits area where body of Hillary Gardee was found
Police have reportedly detailed how they found the body of the daughter of former Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF) secretary-general and attorney Godrich Gardee near Mbombela, Mpumalanga on Tuesday. Read more…
Call for help as Horn of Africa drought worsens, 20 million at risk of hunger
From southern Ethiopia to northern Kenya and Somalia, swathes of land across the Horn of Africa are being ravaged by a drought that has put 20 million people at risk of starvation. Read more…
50 years on, the ghost of the 1972 Hutu killings haunts Burundi
She is 60 years old, but Laetitia Ngendakumana still cries like the 10-year-old girl she was in 1972 when her father disappeared in a wave of ethnic massacres in Burundi now classified as genocide by a government commission. Read more…
Somali gov’t, AU condem Al-Shabaab attack on AU base in Somalia
Al-Shabaab jihadists armed with guns and explosives stormed an African Union base in Somalia on Tuesday, triggering a fierce firefight that killed an unknown number of Burundian peacekeepers. Read more…
Worst drought in decades devastates Ethiopia’s nomads
There has hardly been a drop of rain in Hargududo in 18 months. Dried-up carcasses of goats, cows and donkeys litter the ground near the modest thatched huts in this small village in the Somali region of South Eastern Ethiopia. Read more…
Sudan’s electric rickshaws cut costs, help environment
Sudanese entrepreneur Mohamed Samir watches proudly as workers assemble garishly coloured rickshaws, unique in the North African nation because they run on electricity in a bid to tackle soaring costs. Read more…
Only 5 000 tickets left of the FlySafair R8 sale tickets
FlySafair brought back its annual unbelievable sale which started Wednesday 4 May at 9 am. Read more…
Nigeria Jihadists kill seven in Kautikeri village
Jihadists attacked a village in northeast Nigeria, killing seven people and looting supplies, shortly after the United Nations (UN) chief Antonio Guterres arrived in the troubled region for a visit, local sources said Wednesday. Read more…
UN chief calls for safe return for Nigeria’s displaced
United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres on Tuesday called for the safe and “dignified” return of people displaced by Nigeria’s jihadist conflict, as local authorities close camps and urge people to go back to their communities. Read more…
Springbok captain Siya Kolisi has shared a cute video of himself playing dolls with his daughter Keziah. Read more…
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