Our website use cookies to improve and personalize your experience and to display advertisements (if any). Our website may also include cookies from third parties like Google Adsense, Google Analytics, and Youtube. By using the website, you consent to the use of cookies.

Ok, I Agree
Jul
18
2026
By OWN CORRESPONDENT
Soweto sextortion arrest: Hawks snare syndicate kingpin linked to teenager’s suicide

Soweto sextortion arrest: Hawks snare syndicate kingpin linked to teenager’s suicide

NEWS
A Soweto man accused of masterminding a sprawling international sextortion and money-laundering syndicate appeared in the Protea Glen Magistrate's Court this week, a day after Hawks commercial crime investigators cornered him in Orlando West, in an arrest that has laid bare the lethal reach of South Africa's fastest-growing cybercrime industry. Ifeel Simango, 30, was arrested on Wednesday morning on a J50 warrant by the Serious Commercial Crime Investigation unit of the Directorate for Priority Crime Investigation, popularly known as the Hawks, following what investigators describe as a meticulous probe opened at Protea police station. He was formally charged with extortion…
Read More
Jul
17
2026
By OWN CORRESPONDENT
Rwanda buys the world’s biggest stage: inside Kigali’s £20m Aston Villa gambit

Rwanda buys the world’s biggest stage: inside Kigali’s £20m Aston Villa gambit

NEWS
ASTON Villa Football Club has confirmed that Visit Rwanda, the tourism arm of the Rwanda Development Board (RDB), will become its Principal Partner, Official Tourism Partner and Official Coffee Provider from the 2026/27 season, in what the Premier League club has called the most important sponsorship agreement in its history. The Rwandan flag-carrier brand will now sit on the front of the shirts worn by Villa's men's, women's and academy teams, replacing the gambling operator Betano, whose logo is being stripped from Premier League shirt-fronts league-wide under a self-imposed betting-sponsorship ban that takes effect this season. The three-year deal, negotiated…
Read More
Jul
17
2026
By OWN CORRESPONDENT
NIGERIA: Ex Attorney General forfeits 48 multibillion-naira properties to the state

NIGERIA: Ex Attorney General forfeits 48 multibillion-naira properties to the state

NEWS
FOR eight years, Abubakar Malami held the most powerful legal office in Africa's largest democracy. As Attorney-General of the Federation and Minister of Justice under President Muhammadu Buhari, he was the man who decided which corruption files moved and which quietly died, who instructed the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission on which “persons of interest” to pursue, and who stood before the world as the guarantor of Nigeria's promise to recover stolen wealth. On Wednesday, the machinery he once commanded turned on him. Justice Joyce Abdulmalik of the Federal High Court in Abuja ordered the final forfeiture of 48 properties…
Read More
Jul
17
2026
By OWN CORRESPONDENT
How the R10.4bn Hilux roll-out signals renewed global confidence in South Africa

How the R10.4bn Hilux roll-out signals renewed global confidence in South Africa

NEWS
SOUTH Africa's automotive sector has delivered one of its clearest economic wins of the year, as Toyota South Africa Motors marked the official line-off of the ninth-generation Hilux at its Prospecton plant in eThekwini, backed by a R10.4 billion investment programme that President Cyril Ramaphosa held up as proof the country can convert promises of capital into tangible, working factories. Speaking at the launch, Ramaphosa framed the milestone as more than a product unveiling. For over fifty years, the Hilux has been woven into everyday South African life, hauling farm equipment, ferrying construction crews and crossing terrain from gravel backroads…
Read More
Jul
17
2026
By OWN CORRESPONDENT
Ten Ethiopian migrants feared drowned as canoe capsizes on Zambezi River in desperate bid to reach Botswana

Ten Ethiopian migrants feared drowned as canoe capsizes on Zambezi River in desperate bid to reach Botswana

NEWS
TEN Ethiopian nationals are feared to have drowned after a canoe carrying fifteen undocumented migrants capsized in the Zambezi River as they attempted to slip across the border from Zambia into Botswana under the cover of darkness, in a tragedy that has thrown a harsh spotlight on the perilous, largely invisible smuggling corridor that funnels tens of thousands of East Africans through southern Africa each year. The incident occurred on the night of Monday, 13 July, near Mwaanga Village in Chief Sekute's Chiefdom, Kazungula District - a stretch of river close to the quadripoint where the borders of Zambia, Botswana,…
Read More
Jul
16
2026
By OWN CORRESPONDENT
Fake agency, real lobby: US firm’s bid to vouch for Adeyemi collapses under its own contradiction

Fake agency, real lobby: US firm’s bid to vouch for Adeyemi collapses under its own contradiction

NEWS
A US-based lobbying and public affairs firm, Von Batten-Montague-York, says it intends to report to the Trump administration what it calls the suspicious timing of the arrest of Adeniyi Adeyemi, the self-styled Director-General of Nigeria's Presidential Foreign Investment Promotion Council (PFIPC). There is a problem baked into the claim: Nigerian prosecutors, a Federal High Court and the Presidency itself have all said, on the record, that the PFIPC does not exist and that Adeyemi was never appointed to lead it. The firm, in a statement posted on its X account, said Adeyemi's arrest came "just as we were preparing for…
Read More
Jul
16
2026
By OWN CORRESPONDENT
$8million Romance Scam: Ghanaian kingpin extradited to US after fleecing 80 elderly Americans

$8million Romance Scam: Ghanaian kingpin extradited to US after fleecing 80 elderly Americans

NEWS
A 31-year-old Ghanaian national accused of masterminding an elaborate romance-fraud network that preyed on elderly Americans has been extradited from Ghana to the United States, where he faces federal charges carrying a possible 20-year prison sentence, the US Attorney's Office for the Northern District of Ohio has announced. Frederick Kumi - who investigators say also operated under the aliases Emmanuel Kojo Baah Obeng and Abu Trica - was arrested in Ghana on 11 December 2025 and handed over to US authorities on 9 July 2026, the office said in a statement released from Cleveland. He now stands accused, alongside co-defendant…
Read More
Jul
16
2026
By OWN CORRESPONDENT
DRC assembles its own court of conscience as it bets on justice to break a cycle of impunity

DRC assembles its own court of conscience as it bets on justice to break a cycle of impunity

NEWS
THREE decades into a war that has consumed more lives than almost any conflict since the Second World War, the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) has made a calculated wager: that the road to justice for its people runs not through The Hague alone, but through an institution of its own making. Kinshasa this week formed the Council for the Examination of Atrocities in the DRC, a new advisory body assembled to guide two Congolese state institutions as they build the legal and evidentiary architecture for prosecuting war crimes and securing reparations for victims of a conflict that has displaced…
Read More
Jul
16
2026
By OWN CORRESPONDENT
Fifty-six days in the forest: How Nigeria broke a terror network to free 44 schoolchildren and teachers

Fifty-six days in the forest: How Nigeria broke a terror network to free 44 schoolchildren and teachers

NEWS
THEY walked out of a hospital gate in Ibadan on Friday, 10 July 2026, blinking into cameras and the arms of relatives who had spent 56 days fearing the worst. Forty-four pupils and teachers - reduced from an original 46 by the murder of two of their number - had regained their freedom after a month-long, intelligence-driven operation that the Nigerian Army says dismantled the terrorist network holding them hostage in the forests of Old Oyo National Park. The nightmare began on 15 May, when gunmen linked to Ansaru, a Boko Haram splinter faction, stormed three schools in the Oriire…
Read More
Jul
15
2026
By OWN CORRESPONDENT
Uganda’s Sh73 million pit latrine – without a pit

Uganda’s Sh73 million pit latrine – without a pit

NEWS
EVERY so often, a nation produces a piece of public infrastructure so audacious in its emptiness that it transcends mere scandal and becomes performance art. Bulambuli District has now given Uganda - and honestly, the whole continent - its masterpiece: a toilet block at Muyembe Health Centre IV that cost the public purse a reported 73 million shillings, and features every component of a functioning latrine except, gloriously, the latrine part. No pit. No hole. No descent into the earth of any kind. Just a slab, a wall, a roof, and a drainage groove - an air-conditioned waiting room for…
Read More
Facebook
Twitter
Linkedin
Instagram
WhatsApp
Threads