Female lawmakers with artificial nails and false eyelashes have been banned from Tanzania’s parliament, local media reported on Monday.
Job Ndugai, the Speaker of Parliament, who made the announcement, stated that both cosmetic trends could cause health problems.
The ban has...
The International Monetary Fund (IMF), one of the foremost surveyors of economies around the world, has revised its 2018 economic growth forecasts and West African darling, Ghana, has lost Africa’s top spot to East African giant, Ethiopia.
Ghana, West Africa’s...
In many African societies, the girl child is seen as an object for sexual gratification. They are born, raised to be wives and given to men as old as their fathers because it is believed the girl child came...
An outbreak of acute watery diarrhoea in Ethiopia's northern Tigray region has killed 10 people over the past two weeks and more than 1,200 people have the illness.
Those affected are being treated at the main hospital in the regional...
Liberia has been ranked country with the worst military in Africa by Global Firepower Index 2018 they are closely followed by Sierra Leone and Somalia.
Nigeria's neighbour Ghana also made this years list of weakest military in Africa 2018, they...
More than 6,000 workers from the mainly white union - Solidarity - have begun a three-week strike in South Africa over their exclusion from a company share scheme by petrochemicals company Sasol.
Sasol recently introduced a new 10-year staff share...
Nigeria has the highest maternal mortality in the world. It’s the country with highest number of extremely poor people in the world and now, it has the highest burden of fatalities from air pollution in Africa and 4th globally.
According...
A new study has found that watching
pornography more than once a week can cause people to hold stronger religious beliefs than those who only occasionally watch x-rated videos.
And researchers say this could be down to people compensating for guilty...
In a circular released by the Public Service Management Department, Dr Florian Ndumbaro said that government offices with internet connectivity should not be used to access social
media platforms.
Dr Ndumbaro said the decision arose from complaints by members of the...
For many a dump site is simply what it is, a site for dumping waste. But not this Kenyan artist, Evans Ngure sees beyond the waste as he uses his imagination to bring these materials to life.
This 29-year old...
Anele is a web developer and a Pan-Africanist who believes bad leadership is the only thing keeping Africa from taking its rightful place in the modern world.
