A man has reportedly impregnated his ex-girlfriend weeks after his bride-to-be's family postponed their wedding indefinitely amid the coronavirus pandemic.
Reports indicate the wedding was...
Zambia's President Edgar Lungu has pardoned two men who were jailed last year for having gay sex, AFP news agency reports.
Their 15-year sentence triggered...
Two Zimbabwean journalists who'd been charged with violating lockdown regulations have now been freed on bail, amid accusations the government is using the lockdown...
Ghana’s Ambassador to the United States of America, Baffour Adjei Bawuah, has disclosed that 33 Ghanaians have died from the deadly novel Covid-19 in...
The prime minister has said he was ‘having to wear glasses for the first time in years’ after suffering coronavirus.
Boris Johnson told today’s...
Due to the Coronavirus pandemic, people are coming up with new ways to do things while maintaining social distancing.
Social distancing is the new normal....
Traffic police officers with pot bellies in Tanzania are to be redeployed because they embarrass the police service, Interior Minister George Simbachewere said over...
How to travel safely during COVID-19 crisis
Even as the coronavirus cases continue to surge, some of the restrictions regarding the lockdown have been relaxed....
The World Health Organization is warning Africa against relaxing its testing efforts on Covid-19.
So far Africa has recorded over 115,000 cases of coronavirus with...
The UK has overtaken Sweden to again have the highest coronavirus per capita death rate in the world, according to University of Oxford researchers.
Although cases are...
The World Health Organization (WHO) has temporarily suspended testing of the malaria drug hydroxychloroquine as a potential treatment for COVID-19 as a precautionary measure,...
Uganda has exported the first batch of 18,000 locally-made mobile phones to Morocco.
The 2G-enabled analog mobile phones were manufactured at Simi Technologies, Uganda’s first...
Teachers in South Africa want the planned reopening of schools on 1 June halted, Independent Online news website reports.
Educators Union of SA (Eusa) general...
Men with longer ring fingers are at a lower risk of dying from coronavirus, a scientist has claimed.
Professor John Manning, an evolutionary biology expert at...
A widower has shared a heartbreaking letter to his MP describing how he stayed apart from his dying wife as Dominic Cummings remains in place despite...
The mayor of a Brazilian city that has been badly hit by the coronavirus has rounded on Jair Bolsonaro, saying the President is "co-responsible" for the nation's...
President Muhammadu Buhari celebrated the Eid-el-Fitr with his immediate family in the statehouse, Abuja today, May 24.
The celebration was observed on a low-key...
Zambia's Information Minister Dora Siliya says she publicly shared her Covid-19 test results to fight stigma associated with the respiratory illness caused by coronavirus.
She...
A 19-year-old girl, Margaret Adiya Ikumu from Benue State, Nigeria, has been arrested by the Lagos State Police command for faking her death on social media.
Young...
Today in History, exactly 57 years ago, on 25 May, 1963, the first African organisation after independence, the Organisation of African Unity (OAU), was formed...
Tiwa Savage, Davido and Mr Eazi are the cover stars for Billboard’s latest special issue, which is entirely devoted to the continent of Africa.
The feature...
Ravi Zacharias, who spent his life defending Christianity through books and lectures, has died. He was 74.
Zacharias had been battling sarcoma and died at...
Today in history, exactly 57 years ago, on 25 May, 1963, the first African organisation after independence, the Organisation of African Unity (OAU) was...
The Lagos state police command has arrested a young man simply identified as Chima for allegedly setting his pregnant elder sister, Victoria, 20, ablaze...
Medical practitioners in the country have called on Nigerians to take adequate care of their faces in order to avoid COVID-19 infection.
This is even...
Zambia's Information Minister Dora Siliya has said that most of her contacts have been tested after she was diagnosed with Covid-19.
The minister, who announced...
The president of South Africa has warned that the country's coronavirus outbreak is going to get much worse, while announcing that lockdown measures are...
Home affairs minister Aaron Motsoaledi has approved essential travel for South Africans who want to return to countries where they are based.
The decision, made...
