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JOHANNESBURG — Zindzi Mandela, the daughter of South African anti-apartheid leaders Nelson Mandela and Winnie Madikizela-Mandela, has died aged 59. State television South African Broadcasting Corporation has reported that Mandela died at a Johannesburg hospital early Monday morning. She had been South Africa’s ambassador to Denmark since 2015. The Mandelas’ daughter came to international prominence […]
Malawi’s Vice-President Saulos Chilima’s motorcade was involved in a road accident on Saturday near Phalula, Balaka as he was travelling from Blantyre to Lilongwe. Chilima’s spokesman Pilirani Phiri confirmed about the accident and said the Vice President is believed to be fine. He said the last vehicle on the convoy was the one involved in […]
Malawi’s new President Lazarus Chakwera has been criticised for including a husband and wife duo and siblings in his cabinet. The president’s former running mate in the 2019 elections, Sidik Mia, has been appointed minister for transport and his wife Abida Mia is the deputy minister for lands. Kenny Kandodo is the new labour minister […]
NAIROBI – Kenya’s education minister has said schools should either refund parents the school fees paid for this academic year or agree to forward it to next year. The minister George Magoha was responding to concerns raised after his Tuesday announcement that Kenya’s primary and secondary schools would not reopen until 2021. Mr Magoha said the coronavirus cases in […]
WASHINGTON – A former teacher from Washington state whose relationship with a pupil led to a jail sentence and worldwide notoriety has died of cancer aged 58. Mary Kay Letourneau was convicted of second-degree child rape in 1997 after becoming pregnant by Vili Fualaau when he was 12 or 13 and she was 34. She gave birth […]
HIV patient in Brazil goes into long-term REMISSION and could be the first person to be cured of the virus using pharmaceutical drugs alone A Brazilian man in his mid-30s with HIV has gone into long-term remission after treatment with drugs alone, boosting hope of a cure for millions living with the virus. It is […]
ANTANANARIVO – Madagascar has placed one of its main regions, which covers the capital, Antananarivo, back under a strict lockdown following a surge in coronavirus infections. The government announced that the lockdown would come into effect on Monday and end on 20 July. It will include a ban on traffic in and out of the […]
NAIROBI – Police in Migori have detained a secondary school principal after he clobbered his 17-year-old daughter to death. Rades Apida, then, together with his family, tried to cover up the crime by planning the girl’s unlicensed burial. The teenager’s alleged mistake was to be found with her boyfriend next to their home in Uriri, […]
IRAN has issued an arrest warrant and asked Interpol for help in detaining US President Donald Trump and dozens of others it believes carried out the drone strike that killed a top Iranian general in Baghdad. Tehran prosecutor Ali Alqasimehr said on Monday that Trump, along with more than 30 others Iran accuses of involvement […]
The new President of Malawi, Lazarus Chakwera, has told the BBC that his win in the rerun election was a “victory for democracy and justice”. He defeated incumbent Peter Mutharika with 58.57% of votes in Tuesday’s poll. “I do feel like Lazarus, I’ve come back from the dead,” Mr Chakwera said, referring to the biblical […]
