Browsing: Africa

Botswana’s Letsile Tebogo claimed a surprise Olympic 200m gold medal as Noah Lyles was denied a sprint double at Paris…

At the age of 23, Nigerian musician Udoh Ebaide Joy survived a traumatic car accident. It damaged her spinal cord…

Experts have warned it could take weeks for systems to fully recover from a global outage which has seen disruption including flight delays…

A series of Israeli strikes have been launched against the Houthi-controlled port city of Hodeidah in Yemen.The attack resulted in…

Rwandan President Paul Kagame is on course to extend his 24-year rule by another five years in a landslide victory,…

The South African National Defence Force, SANDF, has confirmed the deaths of two of its members at the Democratic Republic…

Tens of thousands of Malawians have taken part in a funeral service at the national stadium to pay tribute to…

President Emmerson Mnangagwa of Zimbabwe announced on Saturday that Elon Musk’s Starlink satellite business is now able to operate in the country of southern Africa thanks to a telecom regulator’s approval. High-speed, reasonably priced LEO (low-Earth orbit) internet infrastructure “is expected to be deployed throughout Zimbabwe and particularly in all the rural areas,” according to a statement released by Mnangagwa following the decision. According to him, IMC Communications will be Starlink’s only and exclusive local partner for service delivery. According to a 2021 World Bank estimate, just 34.8% of Zimbabweans had internet connection. The country’s internet service is dominated by three major mobile network operators. The Starlink approval…

The South African government has condemned the massacre of 112 Palestinians and the injury of hundreds more as they sought…

The men’s marathon world record holder, Kenya’s Kelvin Kiptum, 24, has died in a road accident in his home country.…