Author: my_kel
Seventy years ago, roughly 20,000 women of every race walked to Pretoria to protest apartheid laws that forced Black women to carry passes restricting their movement.…
At least 22 people have died, including 17 soldiers, after two buses collided head-on in southern Niger, the country’s transport ministry said Saturday, August 8. The…
Across 44 local government areas in northern Nigeria’s Kano state, 1,500 couples said “I do” this weekend in one of the largest state-sponsored mass weddings the…
Ugandan opposition leader Kizza Besigye was sent back to prison on Friday, August 7, more than a week after collapsing in court, despite medical advice against…
Ghana’s Black Queens are through to the quarter-finals of the Women’s Africa Cup of Nations. A 1-1 draw with Mali in Casablanca on Thursday, August 6…
In the world’s second-largest Ebola outbreak on record, the people risking their lives to stop it say they’re doing it for free. 29-year-old Wiza Bondele spends…
Health authorities in the Democratic Republic of Congo have placed nearly 200 passengers from a riverboat under quarantine near the capital, Kinshasa, after a traveler who…
Ethiopia-Sudan border crisis: Hundreds flee Tigray as fresh fighting raises fears of renewed war
Hundreds of people have fled Ethiopia’s northern Tigray region into neighbouring Sudan after heavy fighting erupted between forces loyal to the Tigray People’s Liberation Front (TPLF)…
A deadly rush by thousands of migrants trying to enter Spain’s North African enclave of Ceuta has triggered a dispute over the number of people who…
FIFA president Gianni Infantino is facing one of the biggest challenges of his leadership after England’s Football Association (FA) moved to withdraw its support, adding to…