Botswana's High Court has overturned a law criminalizing consensual same-sex relations. Under section 164 of Botswana's Penal Code, same sex relations was an offense that carried a maximum sentence of seven years' imprisonment.
The case was brought to court in...
Three law students from Kenya's Strathmore University has become the first African team to win the John H. Jackson Moot Court competition on WTO law that was held in Geneva, Switzerland at the weekend.
The Kenyan university was up against...
A 21-year-old Ethiopian woman today took one of her secondary school leaving exams 30 minutes after giving birth, BBC reports.
Almaz Derese, who is from Metu in western Ethiopia, had hoped to sit the tests before her child arrived, but...
Africa contributed seven out of ten countries bedeviled by displacement crisis classed as ‘most neglected’ according to a Norwegian Refugee Council, NRC, report released on Wednesday (June 5.)
The top four countries on the list were African:
1. Cameroon
2. The Democratic...
The number of self-declared black persons in Brazil increased by almost 5 million from 2012 to 2018 while the white population continues to decline.
In 2018, Brazil had 19.2 million people who declared themselves Black – 4.7 million more...
Malawian President Peter Mutharika’s security officers have made international headlines as the world’s scariest bodyguards.
An officer from the Malawi Police special unit, the Police Mobile Force, who was on duty during Mutharika’s swearing in ceremony at Kamuzu Stadium became...
Attempting to leave Africa at all cost, Spanish police guards on duty at the border in Beni-Enzar, Morocco arrested four stowaway migrants in less than 3 hours on Saturday, May 24, 2019. Images of the migrants have since flooded...
According to the just-released report Global Cannabis Report: 2019 Industry Outlook, Nigeria leads Africa in marijuana consumption followed by Ethiopia. The report by New Frontier Data, an analytics company specializing in the cannabis industry, places Nigeria in first place...
As of February 2019, the total population of the world exceeded 7.71 billion, and this number continued to grow each day, according to the 2019 State of the World Population Report (SWOP).
This year’s report focused on the need for...
South Africa will be hosting 2019 edition of Mr Gay World pageant where 24 finalists will compete for this year’s crown.
The contest was initially set to be hosted in Hong Kong, but was stopped by strict socialist Chinese authorities...
