OECD gauges the cost of air pollution in Africa
By air, land or water pollution is killing nine million people a year. Most of the victims are in Africa and other parts of the developing world. The study by the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development finds that one in six deaths of people in the developing world is caused by foul air. Air […]
Activist singer and ex MP accuses football boss and former ANC mayor of raping her
South African singer, activist and ex-MP Jennifer Ferguson alleges the country’s former football boss and prominent member of the African National Congress Danny Jordaan raped her 24 years ago. Ferguson says she was motivated by the #me too movement of women naming their violators. Danny Jordaan headed the organizing body for the 2010 Football World […]
Two deaths from Ebola-like virus in Uganda
Uganda’s confirmed two death from the Ebola-like Marburg virus. A team of medical experts has been sent to the affected ear in the east of the country, near the Kenyan border, to sensitize the population and guage the extent of the outbreak. A hunter was the first person to die from the latest Marburg virus […]
US military probes deadly ambush in Niger
The US Africa Command as sent a team of experts to Niger to find out what happened when four American special forces member were killed in a terrorist ambush. One of the dead is Sergeant La David Johnson whose widow Myeshia has accused President Donald Trump of insensitivity when he phoned her to commiserate. Washington’s […]