Africa

[ad_1] AFPThere were hopes that President Samia would allow the media more freedomThree of Tanzania's leading newspapers have been banned from publishing their online editions after they ran an animation deemed critical of President Samia Suluhu Hassan.The Citizen, Mwananchi and Mwanaspoti newspapers have had their online licenses suspended for 30 days over the viral animated clip, which has since been removed.The clip, just over a minute long, published by the […]

[ad_1] South Sudan’s President Salva Kiir has sacked his powerful and long-serving spy chief Gen Akol Koor Kuc.He became head of the feared National Security Services (NSS) after independence in 2011 and continued throughout the bitter civil war that followed.No reason was given in the presidential decree that announced his removal, which was read out on national TV on Wednesday night - but he has been made governor of the […]

[ad_1] The UK has announced it is giving up sovereignty of a remote but strategically important cluster of islands in the Indian Ocean after more than half a century.The deal – reached after years of negotiations - will see the UK hand over the Chagos Islands to Mauritius in a historic move.This includes the tropical atoll of Diego Garcia, used by the US government as a military base for its […]

[ad_1] South Africans are shocked and angry over the alleged killing of women to feed their bodies to pigs. A white farmer is accused of shooting his two female workers and feeding their bodies to pigs. Maria Makgato, 45, and Lucia Ndlovu, 34, were allegedly looking for food on the farm near Polokwane in South Africa’s northern Limpopo province in August when they were shot. Their bodies were then alleged […]

[ad_1] Veteran South African gospel artist Solomon Molokoane, popularly known as Solly Moholo, has died at the age of 65, his management has announced.The award-winning music icon had been in hospital for several weeks after falling ill while on a music tour in Botswana last month.He rose to fame in the early 2000s and became a household name in South African traditional gospel music.His management said he would be fondly […]