Cape Town – From ex-president Jacob Zuma losing a new bid to delay his corruption trial; to Algeria planning to introduce youth unemployment benefits… Read these and other stories making the headlines from around the African continent.
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Jacob Zuma loses appeal bid to have lead prosecutor Billy Downer dropped from his graft case
South Africa’s former president Jacob Zuma on Wednesday lost a new bid to delay his corruption trial over a 1990s arms deal involving French defence giant Thales. Read more…
Algeria president announces youth unemployment benefit
Algerian President Abdelmadjid Tebboune said on Tuesday that the government would introduce youth unemployment benefits as the North African nation struggles with a jobless rate of almost 15%. Read more…
Two killed in twin al-Shabaab attacks in Somalia, police say
Al-Shabaab militants launched simultaneous attacks on police stations around Somalia’s capital Mogadishu overnight, killing two girls and wounding over a dozen people, security officials said on Wednesday. Read more…
At least five killed by jihadist landmine in north Nigeria
Five people were killed when a civilian convoy hit a landmine planted by jihadists in northeast Nigeria near the border with Cameroon, two anti-jihadist militia told AFP on Tuesday. Read more…
Ethnic militia kills 18 in eastern DRC, official says
Eighteen people were killed on Tuesday in an attack in remote northeast Democratic Republic of Congo by CODECO, a notorious ethnic militia, a local official and a civilian campaigner said. Read more…
Tigray rebels gang-raped women and girls in Ethiopia war, Amnesty says
Tigrayan fighters deliberately killed civilians and gang-raped dozens of women and underage girls in two towns in Ethiopia’s Amhara region last year, Amnesty International said on Wednesday, the latest example of the horrific toll exacted by the 15-month war. Read more…
Neville Vimpany, 93, of Gqeberha in the Eastern Cape, has reportedly been reunited with his bicycle, which was gifted to him by his parents on his 21st birthday in 1950. Read more…
A security officer is reportedly fighting for his life after he was shot during a cash-in-transit heist in Umlazi, south of Durban on Tuesday. Read more…
Mali orders graft probe into social housing scandal
Mali’s strongman leader Colonel Assimi Goita has ordered a probe into social housing that was allegedly awarded to people considered close to the ruling junta, one of his staff members said on Tuesday. Read more…
WATCH: Kuli Roberts’ memorial service
The memorial service of media personality Kuli Roberts took place on Wednesday in Birchwood Hotel, Boksburg, in Johannesburg. Read more…
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