From Investigations getting under way after the wife of a business owner was kidnapped in Cape Town; to Ethiopia raising fuel prices by 20%…Read these and other stories making the headlines from around the African continent.
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WATCH | Investigations under way after wife of business owner kidnapped in Cape Town
Another kidnapping case has been opened in Cape Town after a 35-year-old woman was abducted in Ipswich Road, Blue Downs on Thursday morning. According to Voice of the Cape, the woman was reportedly the wife of a business owner.
Ethiopia raises fuel prices by 20%
Fuel prices in Ethiopia rose by about 20% on Thursday, in the second such increase in less than three months as the government lifts fuel subsidies, deepening economic hardship in Africa’s second most populous country. Read more…
Police exhume body of farm worker who was ‘brutally killed and buried in shallow grave in bushes’
A 34-year-old man who allegedly brutally murdered and buried a farm worker in a shallow grave appeared at the Mookgopong Magistrate’s Court on Thursday. Read more…
Rwandan tycoon had key genocide role, trial hears
Rwandan tycoon Felicien Kabuga played a crucial role in the 1994 genocide that shocked the world, prosecutors said as he boycotted the opening of his own trial in The Hague on Thursday. Read more…
‘We defeated white supremacy’ – Malema and Ndlozi cleared of charges of assaulting a cop
The Randburg magistrate’s court found the Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF) leader Julius Malema and Member of Parliament Mbuyiseni Ndlozi not guilty of assault on a police officer on Thursday. Read more…
Gunmen kill five soldiers, civilian in southeast Nigeria
Gunmen killed five soldiers and a civilian in southeast Nigeria, police and local media said on Thursday, after the latest bloodshed in a region where separatist tensions often flare. Read more…
Morocco arrests suspected Islamic State group member
Moroccan police said on Thursday they had arrested a suspected Islamic State group member, in cooperation with US intelligence officers, who was accused of plotting a “terrorist” act. Read more…
WATCH | Pupils cry in horror as gunman opens fire at KZN primary school
Children at Alston Primary school in Pietermaritzburg, KwaZulu-Natal cried in horror as they ran for cover when a gunman unleashed an attack at the school on Tuesday. Read more…
‘Beginning of a new romance? – Trevor Noah and Dua Lippa spotted kissing on night out
American singer, Dua Lipa, and South African comedian, Trevor Noah, were spotted being cosy with one another on a night out in New York City (NYC), sending the internet into a frenzy and sparking rumours that the pair are dating. Read more…
Rassie’s return! – SA rugby director’s World Rugby ban is over
SA Rugby director Rassie Erasmus can now attend Springbok matches once again after he was banned by World Rugby in November last year. Read more…
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