In a dramatic turn of events, a group of uniformed Gabonese soldiers has taken to national television to announce the dissolution of all state institutions and the cancellation of the country’s contentious elections. This extraordinary declaration comes in the wake of the recent presidential race, which declared longtime leader Ali Bongo as the winner. During a live address in the early hours... 

The International Criminal Court’s (ICC) decision to issue an arrest warrant for Russian President Vladimir Putin caused the Russian president’s planned visit to South Africa to become controversial. Now the trip is cancelled. South Africa is a signatory to the International Court of Justice Convention and would be obliged to arrest and extradite Putin to the ICC if he visited the country. But... 

UK’s deportation of illegal migrants to Rwanda comes with a cost of approximately £169,000 ($215,410) per deportee, according to the UK’s Home Office. However, the government estimates that it could save taxpayers between £106,000 and £165,000 through these measures. The economic impact assessment report on the Illegal Migration Bill highlights the need for effective deterrence to reduce... 

To “right” the past “wrongs” of apartheid, South African President Cyril Ramaphosa and his African National Congress (ANC) political party are trying to punish white residents by enacting “race quotas” on how much water they are allowed to use. If passed, the proposal would weaponize South Africa’s water supply by disallowing whites from using “too much” of it. Most of the precious... 

In an excellent display of how US foreign policy can be used as a means of pandering to domestic interest groups, the Biden administration has threatened to impose sanctions on Uganda as punishment for that regime’s adoption of new laws criminalizing some types of homosexual behavior. While it is abundantly clear that this move from the Ugandan state presents absolutely no threat to any vital US... 

During a virtual press briefing from Geneva, Dr. Nima Saeed Abid, who assumed the position of WHO representative in Sudan on August 4, 2020, expressed concern about the “grave biological risk” that emerged after one of the warring factions took control of the central public health laboratory. The seized facility contained samples of measles and polio, making the situation “incredibly... 

Netflix has been sued over its “woke” depiction of the ancient Egyptian leader Cleopatra as a black woman in the forthcoming documentary film ‘Queen Cleopatra’. Netflix is desperate to find new black heroes for its woke content, and “Queen Cleopatra,” produced by Jada Pinkett Smith, wife of Will Smith, chose to cast Casualty actress Adele James as the iconic Egyptian monarch. However,... 

Not many women would come out openly to declare that they have no scruples about their husbands taking another wife. Although still single, stunning Nollywood actress, Chukwukere Sarah Ujunwa a.k.a Hon Sarah Martins told Potpourri in a chat that she wouldn’t mind having her husband take another wife. According to her, it is never a taboo for an African man to have many wives. Hear her: “Back in... 

So, the Anglican Church in Southern Africa has developed certain ethics aimed at accommodating more and more homosexual partners. I also hear that the Pope of the Catholic Church has begun to warm up to homosexuality as opposed to previous stances from the papacy. Then Steven Hofmeyr apologised to the gay and lesbian community for past comments. I suppose all these things deserve applause in a democratic... 

Ghana has given regulatory clearance to a new malaria vaccine developed by Oxford University scientists. The West African country is the first in the world to approve the use of the R21/Matrix-MTM serum, the university said on Thursday. The vaccine has been endorsed by Ghana’s drug regulator, the Food and Drugs Authority, “for use in children aged five to 36 months, the age group at the highest... 

Russia’s Wagner group is reportedly now turning its focus to Africa after suffering heavy losses in Ukraine amid the mercenary group boss’ fall-out with Vladimir Putin. Yevgeny Prigozhin, the head of the group, has been in a long-running dispute with the Kremlin, particularly with defence minister Sergei Shoigu. He has accused Shoigu of blocking the supply of ammunition and personnel to... 

Ancient people in what is now West Africa are believed to have interbred with a previously unknown species of ancient humans some 50,000 years ago. The proof, according to experts, is in the genomes of contemporary West Africans and cannot be found in old bones or DNA. They examined the genetic material of hundreds of individuals from Sierra Leone and Nigeria and discovered “ghost” DNA,... 

Algerian authorities deported 2,852 migrants between February 23 and March 5. The exiles were abandoned in the middle of the desert, several kilometers from the Nigerien border, without water or food. Among them are women and children. They were abandoned in the middle of the desert, under a blazing sun, without water or food. In just 10 days, 2,852 people from sub-Saharan Africa were deported from... 

The Global Polio Eradication Initiative (GPEI) and health officials in the Democratic Republic of the Congo and Burundi have announced that seven children have been paralyzed by vaccine-derived polio linked to the nOPV2 polio vaccine, which was developed by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. The Gates Foundation, a GPEI partner, funded the development and clinical trials for the nOPV2 vaccine.... 

Violent protests in Nigeria reveal that getting average people to embrace central bank digital currencies (CBDCs) might be more difficult than government officials would like. Nigerians recently took to the streets to protest a cash shortage caused by government policies adopted in order to push the country into the adoption of its central bank digital currency (CBDC). Protesters attacked bank ATMs...