AFRICA

Lagos, Nigeria | AFP | Nigeria’s second largest airline Aero Contractors has laid off two-thirds of its workforce to save costs and prevent it from going under, a government agency official confirmed on Friday. The company said in a letter to employees on Thursday that it was “constrained to place (them) …

2017 Total CAF Champions League KCCA FC 1 (2) Mamelodi Sundowns 1 (3) March 18th 2017: Platinum Stars 3 Vipers 1 (Platinum advance 3-2) Kampala Capital City Authority Football Club (KCCA FC) were held 1-1 by Mamelodi Sundowns and knocked out of the Total CAF Champions League 3-2 on aggregate. match at Phillip Omondi …

Windhoek, Namibia | AFP | Namibia is to launch a 30-billion-dollar (28-billion-euro) lawsuit against Germany over genocide committed during colonial rule, when tens of thousands of people were killed, according to documents seen by AFP on Friday. The Namibian government has previously avoided demanding financial compensation, but it changed its stance …

Accra, Ghana | AFP |  Ghana’s President Nana Akufo-Addo on Friday defended his controversial decision to appoint a 110-minister government, calling it a “necessary investment” in the small west African country. The new government nominated Wednesday — which includes dozens of lower-level and regional ministers — is a record for …

New York, United States | AFP | More than a century after a long-hushed genocide took place in Namibia while under German colonial rule, descendants of the victims are getting their day in court in New York for the first time Thursday. In one of the darkest chapters of African colonial …

Africa elects new football chief after three decades Addis Ababa, Ethiopia | AFP | Madagascan Ahmad Ahmad was elected president of the Confederation of African Football Thursday, ousting veteran leader Issa Hayatou after 29 years in office to usher in a “new dawn” for the sport on the continent. Ahmad, …

Britain’s Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs Boris Johnson has hailed Uganda for sustaining economic growth over the years. “The country seems to be growing well. The strong economic growth presents real opportunities,.” Johnson said after meeting Uganda’s President Yoweri Museveni on Wednesday night. Other than trade and …

Madagascar’s football chief Ahmad Ahmad was elected president of the Confederation of African Football Thursday, ousting veteran leader Issa Hayatou after 29 years in office. Ahmad won the election in the Ethiopian capital by 34 votes to Hayatou’s 20, official results showed. Delegates cheered and pumped their fists in the …

Dar es Salaam, Tanzania | AFP | A top Tanzanian television presenter has been suspended, along with eight fellow employees of the main state-run channel, for relaying fake news in which US President Donald Trump praised his Tanzanian counterpart. In the fake news item, run this weekend, Trump describes Tanzania’s President …

There is no evidence to back this falsehoods – Military spokesman Karemire Kampala, Uganda | AFP | Human Rights Watch on Wednesday said 155 people, including 15 children, were killed in fierce fighting that erupted late last year in western Uganda between security forces and a tribal king’s palace guards. …