In one of the most shocking reports on the ill-treatment of refugees and asylum-seekers, the International Organization for Migration has confirmed that thousands of African migrants are being left to die in blistering desert heat after being deported by the government of Algeria and dumped in the Sahara. A new investigation by the Associated Press […]
Zimbabwe’s President Emmerson Mnangagwa has survived an apparent bomb attack at a rally in the city of Bulawayo. Mr Mnangagwa said an object “exploded a few inches away from me – but it is not my time”. Video footage from White City Stadium shows an explosion happening close to Mr Mnangagwa as he was leaving
Representatives of Rastafari organizations in over ten African countries have elected Ghana’s Ahuma Bosco Ocansey aka Daddy Bosco as the first chairman of the Rastafari Continental Council (R.C.C ) at the recent meeting in Capetown, South Africa. The conference also elected the representative from Tanzania, Ras Makonnen as deputy chairman. According to the facilitator of
By Alina Polianskaya Zimbabwe has made it legal to produce marijuana for medicinal and scientific uses. It follows in the footsteps of Lesotho, the tiny nation which last year became the first in Africa to issue a license for medical marijuana. Zimbabwe has been considering legalizing the drug for a number of months, and will now become one of the few countries able to
Next year’s race for the presidency in Nigeria just got a lot more interesting as a crusading journalist – an upstart known for exposing the millions and billions stolen by a national “loot-ocracy” – announced his candidacy for the nation’s top job. As news spread that the publisher, Omoyele Sowore, was testing the waters for
Liberians living in America since a devastating civil war that took 250,000 lives are now in the crosshairs of the current Trump administration which is threatening to lift their protected status and deport them. Some five thousand people nationally are protected from deportation under the Deferred Enforced Departure or DED program which has been in
A monument to Robert Nesta Marley has been approved by the Marley family and will be erected in Zimbabwe, the only African nation he performed during his brief lifetime. Reportedly permission was granted by the Marley estate to erect a statue in honor of the singer, musician and cultural icon acclaimed to be the
In its first formal response to a class-action suit filed by the Herero and Nama people of Namibia, Germany has asked a New York judge to throw out the suit as “inadmissible” because of “the principle of state immunity.” The indigenous people have been seeking reparations for the genocide of their peoples under German
While some Jamaicans are excited about the prospects of one of their own ascending to the role of First Lady in the West African country of Liberia, the reality on the ground may be slightly different. A website, Jamaicans.com did a piece in which it reported: Jamaicans expressed their excitement that one of their own,
Soldiers have taken over the headquarters of Zimbabwe’s state broadcaster as explosions echoed across the capital Harare, witnesses say, compounding speculation of a military coup against 93-year-old President Robert Mugabe. Witnesses said several state broadcaster ZBC members of staff were manhandled in the early hours of the morning (local time) as the soldiers occupied the
