Nigeria’s finance minister has resigned over allegations she used a forged certificate to avoid the country’s mandatory one-year youth service scheme. Kemi Adeosun, who lived in the UK until she was 34, said she had been told she was exempt because she was over 30. The former investment banker said she was issued with a […]
Former president Robert Mugabe has revealed how he just grabbed and kissed his then secretary Grace Marufu, marking the beginning of an adulterous affair as his wife battled terminal illness. The now 95-year-old former Zimbabwean leader was speaking at the funeral of Grace’s mother at the couple’s Blue Roof Harare home. Grace looked taken aback […]
Nineteen people were killed when a small passenger plane crashed into a lake as it tried to land in thick fog in central South Sudan, reports say. Only four people, including two children, survived the crash, said government official Taban Abel Aguek. The victims include the pilot and co-pilot, a staff member of the Red […]
Zimbabwe’s Robert Mugabe has said he now accepts President Emmerson Mnangagwa as the country’s legitimate leader after initially accusing him of leading a “disgraceful” de facto coup that ended his near four-decades rule last year. On the eve of the July 30 vote, Mugabe said he would vote for the opposition to remove Mnangagwa’s “military […]
China does not invest in “vanity projects” in Africa and is helping the continent build its infrastructure, President Xi Jinping has said. He pledged an extra $60bn (£42bn) for the continent’s development, as he opened a summit with African leaders in Beijing to boost relations. China is the single largest bilateral financier of infrastructure in […]
Nigeria’s central bank has fined four leading banks a combined sum of $16m (£12.3m) after they were accused of helping the country’s largest mobile phone operator, MTN, to illegally transfer $8bn abroad, reports BBC Africa business correspondent Dami Ade-Odiachi. The banks and MTN have been ordered to refund the money. The banks under fire are […]
Kenya’s Deputy Chief Justice, Philomena Mwilu, is currently in court in the capital, Nairobi, where her legal team is applying to get her freed on bail. She was arrested on Tuesday afternoon at the Supreme Court and is accused of abuse of office for personal gain and tax evasion. Kenya’s Deputy Chief Justice Philomena Mwilu […]
Former warlord Jean-Pierre Bemba cannot run to be the next president of the Democratic Republic of Congo, the country’s electoral commission said. Mr Bemba was one of six would-be candidates deemed ineligible following hours of deliberation. The ex-rebel leader had a war crimes conviction overturned in June. However, the commission said Mr Bemba was excluded […]
In the east of Ethiopia more than 100 vehicles have been returned to their owners after they were looted during ethnic clashes earlier this month. Religious leaders and elders have been calling for reconciliation and urged people to return whatever they had seized during the unrest. Officials in Jigjiga city say looted cash has also […]
Police in south-western Tanzania have started arresting the residents of a village for vandalising some water pipes. The arrest of the entire village of Ngola was ordered by the area’s regional commissioner Albert Chalamila on Wednesday. The residents are suspected of destroying a water facility worth about $20,000 (£16,000) in Masheye village, which is in […]