Popular Ghanaian media personality DJ Okoto, known as Ebenezer Aboagye, passed away. Colleague DJ Mozey One shared the news, with tributes flooding social media.
Zoomlion is at the centre of a procurement controversy in Kenya, with the Nairobi governor facing criticism for awarding it a 20-year waste management contract.
Australia's Oliver Hoare shocked world champion Jake Wightman and Kenya's Timothy Cheruiyot to win 1500m gold at the Commonwealth Games in Birmingham on Saturday. But Jamaican high-jumper Lamara Distin (1.95 metres) denied Australia a golden treble, taking gold ahead of Australia's recently crowned world champion Eleanor Patterson (1.92).
An adorable video showing the flawless dark complexion of child model and fashion influencer, Princess Blossom, has warmed and won many hearts on social media.
The frontrunners for Kenya's presidential election were set to make their final push for votes Saturday, capping months of frenetic campaigning ahead of the August 9 polls.
Bayern Munich coach Julian Nagelsmann said he didn't mind if it was beginning to feel "normal" for his team to win the title, after thrashing an overwhelmed Eintracht Frankfurt 6-1 away at Deutsche Bank Park on Friday. Asked after the match if Munich winning the Bundesliga was begnning to feel like "normality", Nagelsmann unsurprisingly said he was happy with the status quo.
Sikandar Raza and Innocent Kaia struck centuries as Zimbabwe recovered from a disastrous start to stun Bangladesh with a five-wicket win in the first match on Friday of a three one-day internationals series.
Mourners on Friday buried 10 people killed during anti-UN protests in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, some chanting slogans against peacekeepers, an AFP reporter said. Mourners chanted slogans hostile to the peacekeepers, according to an AFP journalist, and touted banners reading "MONUSCO is killing Congolese people".
The head of Chad's ruling junta Friday flew off to Qatar to seal a possible peace deal with rebels, a key step in plans to restore civilian rule, the presidency's website said. On the table is a government plan for a ceasefire and guarantees of security for rebel leaders who attend the forum.
The peace deal Senegal has signed with rebels from the country's south is "an important step" towards permanent peace in the home of one of Africa's oldest active rebellions, a mediator said Friday. "This is an important step towards definitive peace," mediator and former Senegalese cabinet minister Robert Sagna told private Senegalese radio station Iradio.
The Malian army and "white-skinned soldiers" were involved in the deaths of 33 civilians, according to an expert report to the UN seen by AFP Friday. Two other operations the panel investigated involved the presence of "white-skinned soldiers", according to testimonies.
Africa
Load more
