This is the horrifying moment a Kenyan boss tried to force a woman to have sex with him in return for work – as an investigation uncovered widespread sexual abuse on tea farms. BBC reporters found that women had been pressured into sex at farms supplying PG Tips, Lipton, Tesco and Sainsbury’s – with one victim being infected with HIV. An undercover journalist was invited to an interview... 

Reverend Isaac Achi, a Catholic priest, was burnt alive on Sunday in a bungled home invasion at his residence in Kaffin Koro parish in Nigeria’s Niger state, according to a police official. When the armed would-be thieves were unable to gain inside, they chose to set fire to the property, leaving the priest to perish while his aide, Father Collins, nearly escaped with his life, suffering a gunshot... 

The Wall Street Journal reported on Monday that tensions between Washington and Pretoria have increased since a Russian cargo ship paid a visit to South Africa’s major naval facility last month. According to the site, the nation’s defense minister claimed that the US has been exerting pressure on African countries over any ties to Moscow. According to a senior US source who spoke to the... 

The Duke and Duchess of Sussex are accused by Nelson Mandela’s granddaughter of taking advantage of her grandfather’s legacy. By collaborating with the Nelson Mandela Foundation to produce the Netflix series “Live to Lead,” Nikola Mandela, 57, said that Prince Harry and Meghan Markle are “using” the late South African president’s name for their own self-promotion.... 

In what is being interpreted as a “troll”, the African country of Namibia is now offering to take in Germans fleeing inflation and high electricity prices in their homeland. Namibia, a former German colony in southwest Africa, is lending a helping hand to Germans fed up with the ever-increasing cost of living. The country’s president, Hage Gottfried Geingob, received German economy... 

Berlin has declared that the 1,100 German soldiers presently serving in Mali will leave by May 2024. As part of the UN peacekeeping mission MINUSMA, German troops have been stationed in the African nation for over ten years, to the growing chagrin of the Bamako administration. According to government spokesperson Steffen Hebestreit, the deployment will get one last year-long extension request from... 

According to the president of Somalia, two vehicle explosions occurred on Saturday in the country’s capital, Mogadishu, leaving at least 100 people dead and 300 injured. The data were released by Hassan Sheikh Mohamud on Sunday, along with a warning that “the number of both the dead and wounded continues to climb.” The capital’s busy Zobe intersection was the target of the... 

Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni has declared a three-week lockdown in two high-risk districts with confirmed cases of Ebola virus disease (EVD). There were 63 confirmed cases so far, including 29 deaths. The new outbreak is of the Sudan strain. Unlike the common Zaire strain, there is no treatment and no cure for the Sudan strain. Meaning, the death toll could be catastrophic if this strain starts... 

According to a group of biologists at the University of California, Santa Cruz, the recent finding of a “wonderful specimen” of dodo DNA was the final piece needed to complete the genome of the extinct bird. The discoveries bring the potential of resurrecting the dodo, which became extinct more than three centuries ago, one step closer. The Natural History Museum of Denmark will publish... 

A suspected cannibal has been arrested in Nigeria after he allegedly cut off his aunt’s head and used it to make pepper soup. Jeremiah Ode, 45, allegedly killed his uncle’s wife Priscilla, 65, and cut off her head with a machete at her farm in Oju, in the southern state of Benue. Ode then cooked a pepper soup with Priscilla’s decapitated head and was eating a steaming bowl of it... 

South Africa’s Supreme Court has ruled that the “Kill the Boers” song, which advocates for killing white people, is not hate speech. The Equality Division of the court ruled that the song, which celebrates the killing of Dutch settlers in South Africa, is protected under freedom of expression. Hear that people? Advocating to slay random white people is “free speech”… The song... 

Nigerians are weary of corporations marketing their products in the nation with virtually solely white models and voiceovers with British or American accents. According to the Arab broadcaster Al Mayadeen, there will now be a law that only local models and readers will be allowed to participate. When African enterprises sell their products to an African audience, unlike in many Western countries,... 

The energy and climate goals that Western governments, the United Nations, and other organizations are pushing on Africa constitute a crippling blow to its economies. As the least developed region, Africa should unequivocally prioritize economic development. One would think that amid energy poverty in Africa, Western governments and “development” institutions would prioritize energy security for... 

The Central Bank of Zimbabwe stated on Monday that it would soon begin issuing gold currency in an effort to reduce inflation, which hit 191 percent in June. The Harare government thinks that this will decrease demand for US dollars and at the very least slow down the further depreciation of the local currency. The coins should be accessible through neighborhood banks and currency exchanges by the... 

Extensive disruptions in the movement of food and a massive global famine were only a theory a decade ago. Now, the unthinkable is slowly unfolding and puts the poorest and most vulnerable at risk. During a United Nations (UN) food security meeting on June 24, UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres warned of a “global hunger crisis.” He also mentioned the “real risk” of “multiple famines”...