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Nigeria: End of the road for politician drug smuggler?
A Nigerian politician seeking to fund his election campaign swallowed over two kilograms of cocaine (4.4 lbs) to be traded in Germany, has confessed...
Ugandan women seek protection against men with “big sexual organs”
Women leaders in Uganda want a clause in the domestic relations law that allows them to divorce men with big sexual organs.
During a workshop...
Zimbabwe: Mugabe Jr. saves national basketball team from financial woes
Zimbabwe is not a known in basketball circles as a power house but interest is being generated in the Southern African country since President...
39 Christian ‘cult’ members in Uganda prison for uncultured behaviour
39 members of a cult called 'End time Gospel' based in central Uganda, currently in remand prison for holding unlawful assembly and behaving in...
Nigeria: Senator marries 13-year old, rights activists appalled
A Nigerian senator, who introduced and implemented Sharia Law in a Northern Nigeria state, has married a 13 year old girl from Egypt, and...
Zimbabwe: Probe into Mugabe’s stolen birthday gifts begins
Two cabinet ministers from President Mugabe’s Zanu-PF and a string of top officials are under probe on allegations of stealing Mugabe’s birthday gifts in...
Zimbabwe: Mugabe blamed for Ex-Zanu PF hatchet man’s death
A member of the dreaded Central Investigative Organization (CIO) who
dared to publicly criticize President Mugabe was found dead in Zimbabwe on Monday.
Innocent Makamure’s...
Zimbabwe: A new wife for Tsvangirai?
Zimbabwean Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai seems to have found new love in the person of his late wife’s sister- Leah Mhundwa.
In line with his...
Zimbabwe: Oscar winning Prudence Mabhena’s runaway parents reappear
A Zimbabwe man who fathered but abandoned a Oscar Award winning disabled woman for a decade is now begging for forgiveness.
Mkhokheli Mabhena, on...
Ex-wife lashes out bitterly at Nelson Mandela
South Africa's controversial ex-wife of former President Nelson Mandela, Winnie has rebuked him for neglecting the poor and coming out of prison a changed...
Zimbabwe: Grace Mugabe demolishes village for her project
President Mugabe’s young wife, Grace is at it again. First she grabbed Iron Mask Farm in Mazowe about 40km from Harare area in 2002...
Zuma hits back at The British as state-visit begins
South African President, Jacob Zuma has lashed out at British tabloid newspapers for derogatory comments about him and his personal life. The Daily Mail...
Uganda priest nabbed for BBC hoax was paid to dramatize
Police in Uganda has arrested a Catholic evangelist who told a BBC reporter that he killed 70 people when he was still practicing witchcraft.
Polino...
Zenawi versus Zuma: ‘Ze burlesque follies’ of Africa
From Zenawi to Zuma, the follies of Africa are ably translated by the great continent’s presidents and prime ministers; those power mongers hellbent on...
Zambian head says insulting him is ‘pornography’
Zambian ruler, Rupiah Banda has advised his countrymen to switch off
their radio sets anytime they hear a broadcast that insults him claiming that “insulting...
Jacob Zuma steals Nelson Mandela’s spotlight?
South African President, Jacob Zuma, has been accused of stealing the spotlight from Nelson Mandela on the twentieth anniversary of his release from prison....
Zimbabwe: Mugabe’s son inherits mother’s IQ?
President Robert Mugabe’s last born son, Chatunga Bellarmine Mugabe flunked his 2009 Grade 7 examinations, it has emerged. Meanwhile, some observers have likened his...
Zuma caught between sex scandals and polygamy
South Africa's fourth President Jacob Zuma is embroiled in a new sex scandal. The polygamous President has allegedly fathered a child with the daughter...
Uganda: Local gin mixture ‘nguli’ kills several
An illicit gin locally called nguli has killed 120 people in Uganda in the last six months.
Since January 2010 began, 10 people have died...
President Zuma weds fifth wife, another to follow soon
South Africa’s polygamous president Jacob Zuma has done it again - he
wed his fifth wife on Monday.
Thobeka Madiba, aged 37, is an addition to...
South African President Zuma’s US$8m plus home renovations
South African leader Jacob Zuma is splashing a whopping R65-million (over 8.8 million US dollars) in expanding his rural home of Nkandla. The new...
Kenya-Uganda: Traders sell food mixed with soil and sand
Kenyans living in the Uganda-Kenya border towns of Malaba and Busia have appealled to the Uganda government to arrest and deal with traders who...
Southern Sudan: No sabotage involved in President’s plane crash
Salva Kiir, President of Southern Sudan, has this morning survived a plane crash at the Gulu airfiled in northern Uganda. The accident occured when...
Zimbabwe: Mugabe keeping his personal belongings at Tsvangirai’s official home
Zimbabwe’s Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai’s continued use of his simple Strathaven home as his official residency seven months after his appointment has been explained:...
A gorilla for a friend on Facebook or Twitter from Uganda with love
Uganda’s "Year of the Gorilla” has been marked with the launching of " Friend a gorilla" site, which allows users to follow the daily...
Zimbabwean plunges to death to save tourist at Victoria Falls
A Zimbabwean tour guide in Victoria Falls is feared dead after he plunged into the gorges in an attempt to rescue a tourist.
The man...
Zimbabwe: Traditional chiefs fight with MPs over luxury cars for respect
Traditional leaders in the southern African country of Zimbabwe are demanding improved allowances and top of the range Mercedes Benz vehicles so as to...
Freak snake stories on the rise in Zimbabwe
If you want to make quick money but at considerable risk just grab a
snake and fly over to Zimbabwe. In the last three...
Zimbabwe: 80 year old woman armed robber on the run
The dollarisation of the crumbling Zimbabwe economy has got robberies to be more daring in the missions. Police in Harare have launched a massive...
Tunisia: Woman expecting 12 babies experienced phantom pregnancy
A 34 year old Tunisian woman recently got the whole planet expecting the last wonder of the world when she told the press that...