Africa

Young boys become Bamasaaba men through Ugandan tribal circumcision, a ritual the Ugandan government plans to promote to international tourists. Every two years, a ritual that is a few centuries old …

FIRST MASSIVE NATIONWIDE PROTESTS ON THE 5TH OF FEBRUARY, 2017. A call for good governance. A call for urgent explanation into the reckless economic downturn nationwide. A call for nationwide …

Equatorial Guinea confirmed on Tuesday it was hosting ousted Gambian leader Yahya Jammeh, who fled his country after West African troops threatened to remove him by force if he did …

Islamist militants rammed a car bomb into the gate of a hotel and stormed inside, killing at least 13 people in Somalia’s capital Mogadishu on Wednesday, police said. Gunfire rang …

Even before the cheers to celebrate the end of Yahya Jammeh’s brutal 22-year rule of Gambia died down, there was fury that he was being allowed to flee into luxurious …

About four soldiers were killed and five wounded on Tuesday when a roadside bomb that Islamist militant group al Shabaab said it planted exploded outside a military camp in a …

A Kenyan head teacher was flogged in public after allegedly defiling three school girls under his custody. Willy Kiprop reportedly enticed the girls aged 12 to 16 with goodies and …

Fatoumata Tambajang, the Gambia’s political change agent has been appointed as the new Vice President of the new government of President Adama Barrow. Tambajang has ever been a good mediator …

Liberia’s international soccer star turned presidential candidate has named the ex-wife of former President Charles Taylor as his running mate. In a statement broadcast by Liberian radio stations Monday morning, …

STORY HIGHLIGHTS You can call him Daddy Yo! Adamma Barrow may have one problem- the defeated Yahya Jammeh (who at press time was still clinging on to power) to deal …