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Zindzi Mandela, the daughter of the late former South African President Nelson Mandela is dead. Zindzi passed away while undergoing medication at a hospital in Johannesburg on Monday morning aged 59, according to reports in South Africa. Her demise was confirmed by the South African Department of…

Police in the US are holding a 37-year-old Nigerian national accused of masterminding a $441 million cyber scam. Ramon Olorunwa Abbas was arrested last month after the FBI and Dubai police stormed his apartment in Dubai and seized more than $40 million in cash. Abbas is a social media celebrity…

A Tanzanian small-scale miner became a dollar millionaire after he sold two Tanzanite gemstones for a whopping TSh7.8 billion (US$3.5 million).  The two dark violet-blue gemstones weighing 9.2kg and 5.8kg are said to be the biggest stones ever found in the country, according to Tanzania’s…

Burundi President Pierre Nkurunziza died of Covid-19, it has emerged. Diplomatic sources in Bujumbura and Nairobi say the Nkurunziza, 55, died of the virus after officials delayed in making a decision on whether to airlift him to Kenya or Tanzania for treatment. “He had coronavirus but no one would…

Burundi First Lady Denise Nkurunziza has left Aga Khan Hospital in Nairobi following her husband’s death. Mrs. Nkurunziza arrived at the Melchior Ndadaye International Airport in Bujumbura on Tuesday evening aboard a flight belonging to a Kenyan private airline Phoenix, according to SOS Media…

Outgoing Burundi President Pierre Nkurunziza is dead. Nkurunziza, 55, succumbed to cardiac arrest while undergoing treatment at Karusi Fiftieth Anniversary Hospital in Bujumbura on Monday afternoon, reports in Burundi indicate. “He watched a volleyball match on Saturday afternoon in Ngozi but…

The Tanzanian government on Tuesday summoned US Ambassador Dr. Inmi Patterson to clarify the statements the mission issued this month regarding the Covid-19 situation in the country. Amb. Patterson was summoned to the Foreign Affairs Ministry office in Dar es Salaam, where she held a meeting with…

The US Supreme Court on Monday, May 18th, awarded victims of the 1998 bomb attacks on American embassies in Nairobi and Dar es Salaam (Tanzania) $4.3 billion in punitive damages. The top court ordered Sudan to compensate the victims on grounds that it was found guilty of providing assistance to Al-…

Riek Machar, the Vice-President of South Sudan has been infected with Covid-19, his office has announced. Machar tested positive for the virus together with his wife Angelina Teny, who serves as the country’s defense minister. Machar’s office in a statement on Monday, May 18th, said a number of his…

Tanzania President John Pombe Magufuli has divulged that one of his two children was recently infected with Covid-19. Speaking during a church service on Sunday, May 17th, Magufuli said the child did not go to any hospital after the infection, adding that they used home-made remedies and he is now…