Category: Metro

Chad has said it is terminating a key defence cooperation agreement with France, raising questions about Paris’s waning influence in Africa’s embattled Sahel region. Chadian Foreign Minister Abderaman Koulamallah said it was time for his country to “assert its full sovereignty”. The announcement came just hours after Koulamallah’s French counterpart, Jean-Noel Barrot, met Chad’s President…

A notorious gang member, Duncan Mwaba, commonly known as Shimpundu, who has been on the police wanted list for a while now, met his demise yesterday, November 28, 2024, in a shootout with police after he and his gand planned to break into a shop at Twikatane Mall in Zingalume. According to Police Public Relations…

Richard Phillips, a tall, broad-shouldered man with a passion for singing, has spent over 40 years behind bars for a crime he insists he did not commit. Wrongfully imprisoned in 1972 at the age of 26, Phillips was sentenced to life in prison with limited education and no clear path to freedom. To cope with…

Mpika Member of Parliament Francis Kapyanga has charged that the late Sergeant Mike Mumba who died on duty yesterday died due to President Hakainde Hichilema’s movements from Community House to State House. During the Vice-President’s question time in parliament today, Mr Kapyanga lamented that the Presidents movements from Community House have so far caused deaths…

A power cut plunged Zimbabwe’s parliament into darkness as Finance Minister Mthuli Ncube was finishing his budget speech. The lights flickered and died, leaving top officials like President Emmerson Mnangagwa, Vice-President Constantino Chiwenga and members of parliament sitting in the dark. The outage is a symptom of Zimbabwe’s ongoing crisis, with daily 12-hour blackouts driven…

President Cyril Ramaphosa will on Monday, 2 December 2024, brief the media on South Africa’s Group of Twenty (G20) Presidency. During the recent G20 Rio Leaders’ Summit in Brazil, President Ramaphosa officially accepted South Africa’s responsibility for the G20 Presidency for 2025. This will be the first time an African economy leads the G20 for…

Egyptian rescuers found four bodies and five survivors on Tuesday during a Red Sea search operation after a tourist boat carrying 44 people sank on Monday. A total of 33 people have been rescued so far but seven were still missing as of Tuesday evening. The victims’ identities have not yet been disclosed by authorities.…

The Israeli military and Hezbollah, a militant group based in Lebanon, have ceased hostilities after 13 months of intense conflict. U.S. President Joe Biden announced last night that the fighting had ended and urged both sides to ensure it does not resume. However, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu issued a stern warning, stating that Israel’s…

Kenya’s President William Ruto has cancelled two major deals involving Indian billionaire Gautam Adani, after the tycoon was indicted for fraud by US prosecutors. In his state-of-the-nation address on Thursday, Ruto said the deals had been cancelled based on “new information provided by our investigative agencies and partner nations”. The day before, Mr…

Mali’s military leader has sacked the Prime Minister, Choguel Kokalla Maïga, and his government. It follows rare criticism by Maïga of the junta’s lack of clarity about a once-promised return to democracy. A decree read on state television by junta leader Col Assimi Goïta said the duties of the prime minister and the…

Abdirahman Mohamed Abdullahi, leader of Somaliland’s opposition, has been elected president of the breakaway region of Somalia, according to reports. Abdullahi – also known as Irro – of the Waddani Party received close to 64 percent of the vote, beating the incumbent, President Muse Bihi Abdi of the Kulmiye Party, the Somaliland National…

Claudia Sassou Nguesso, the 52-year-old daughter of Republic of Congo’s President Denis Sassou Nguesso, is making headlines as explicit videos allegedly involving her have gone viral on social media. The videos, which reportedly show Claudia in intimate moments with a man behind the camera, are said to have resurfaced from a scandal dating…

Kenya’s Catholic Church has rejected a donation of about $40,000 (£32,000) made by President William Ruto. He offered the money towards the building of a priest’s house and as a gift to the choir during Mass on Sunday at the Soweto Catholic Church in the capital, Nairobi. The donation followed a recent statement by Catholic…

Senegal’s ruling party has claimed a comfortable victory in Sunday’s legislative elections with nearly all ballots counted. The win comes just a few months after President Bassirou Diomaye Faye secured the presidential election, and now clears his way to carry out an ambitious reform agenda. Local media reported that Diomaye Faye’s PASTEF party had emerged…

Two Ugandans have been detained for allegedly insulting President Yoweri Museveni, the first lady Janet Museveni and the president’s son Gen Muhoozi Kainerugaba on the video sharing platform, TikTok. Magistrate Stella Maris Amabilis remanded 21-year-old David Ssengozi, alias Lucky Choice, and Isaiah Ssekagiri , 28, to Kigo prison until Wednesday when they will make an…

Botswana’s Vice President Ndaba Gaolathe will double as finance minister, new President Duma Boko said on Monday, announcing the first ministerial positions in his cabinet. In a shock election result earlier this month, Boko’s Umbrella for Democratic Change coalition ousted the party that had ruled the southern African country for nearly six decades. Analysts say…

Former Zambia President Edgar Chagwa Lungu has taken to social media to mourn the passing of former High Commissioner to Malawi Dr. John Ngwata Phiri. Lungu described as man who served Zambia with distinction, diligence, loyalty, and commitment. “We will remember him not only for his service and dedication to this country but also for…

The government of Equatorial Guinea has dismissed Baltasar Ebang Engonga, Director General of the National Financial Investigation Agency (ANIF), following the circulation of over 400 explicit videos involving him and the wives of prominent men in the country. The videos, which have been widely shared online, reportedly feature Engonga in romantic affairs with his brother’s…

Ghana’s outgoing President Nana Akufo-Addo is facing a backlash on social media after he unveiled a statue of himself during a tour of the country’s Western Region. The monument is intended to honour the development initiatives the president has overseen whilst in office, the region’s minister Kwabena Okyere Darko-Mensah says. But many Ghanaians have been…

Donald Trump has declared victory in the US election as he addressed jubilant supporters in Florida – but votes in key states are still being counted. Speaking at West Palm Beach, he told crowds: “Look what happened – is this crazy?” – adding: “I want to thank the American people for the extraordinary honour of…