Africa

On Tuesday, February 14th, Kenyan Senator Gloria Orwoba was asked to leave parliament after members noticed a blood stain on her pants while in session. Members of parliament criticized her,...

Ambassador Sharon Bar-Li, a senior Israeli diplomat, was escorted out of the African Union's Summit, which was held in Ethiopia. It is alleged that the only Israeli delegate with permission...

On Saturday, February 18th, Christian Atsu, Ghanaian footballer who played for Turkey's Hatayspor, was found dead underneath the rubble of the apartment building he lived in. 31-year-old Atsu had been...

Equatorial Guinea's Vice President Teodoro Nguema Obiang had two houses and a superyacht seized this week by South African officials. Vice President Obiang lost a lawsuit filed by South African...

Kiernan Jarryd Forbes, the South African rapper popularly known as AKA, was shot and died in the city of Durban, South Africa on Friday, February 10th. AKA was outside Wish,...

Equatorial Guinea appointed a woman as Prime Minister for the first time. Manuela Roka Botey  was announced as Prime Minister by longtime President Teodoro Obiang Nguema on Tuesday, January 31st....

Pope Francis visited the Democratic Republic of Congo after previously postponing a trip meant for July 2022. The Pope arrived in the DRC's capital, Kinshasa, to much celebration and fanfare...

Liberian President George Weah made the announcement that he would be seeking re-election for a second term. Weah, who assumed office in 2018, made the announcement in Liberia's parliament on...

Nigeria opened for operation the first deep seaport in the country in the city of Lagos on Monday, January 23. The Lekki Deep Sea Port which was a China-led project...