AFP Africa

Tyres screech across an empty parking lot in Soweto as 40-year-old Nalo Jivhuho sends her black BMW skidding and spinning in a cloud of white smoke and fumes.As soon as she slips into the hotseat, the human resources developer becomes “Dankie Darlie”, impassioned enthusiast of South Africa’s increasingly popular daredevil motorsport of spinning.In a tank …

S.Africa’s daredevil autosport of spinning stokes passionsThu, 22 Aug 2024 05:22:51 GMT Read More »

In a claustrophobic dimly-lit room in a Nairobi stadium, the diminutive Kenyan Paralympian Hellen Wawira Kariuki barely breaks a sweat as she powerlifts nearly double her weight, her coach urging her on.”Sixty kilos is still warming up,” grinned the 32-year-old, who qualified for the Paris Games that open next week in the para-powerlifting under 41-kilo …

Kenyan Paralympian Wawira finds ‘courage’ in powerliftingThu, 22 Aug 2024 03:11:33 GMT Read More »

Five Kenyan police officers appeared in court on Wednesday, suspected of helping a man accused of murdering and dismembering dozens of women escape from a Nairobi police cell.Police launched a manhunt on Tuesday after alleged serial killer Collins Jumaisi and 12 Eritreans broke out of a police station in an upmarket area of the Kenyan …

Kenya police in court over serial killer suspect’s escapeWed, 21 Aug 2024 10:38:46 GMT Read More »

Five Kenyan police officers appeared in court on Wednesday, suspected of helping a man accused of murdering and dismembering dozens of women escape from a Nairobi police cell.Police launched a manhunt on Tuesday after alleged serial killer Collins Jumaisi and 12 Eritreans broke out of a police station in an upmarket area of the Kenyan …

Kenya police in court over serial killer suspect’s escapeWed, 21 Aug 2024 08:55:22 GMT Read More »

Thailand on Wednesday reported a suspected first case of the new more dangerous strain of mpox, which the World Health Organization has declared a global public health emergency.The patient landed in Bangkok on August 14 and was sent to hospital with mpox symptoms the following morning, said Thongchai Keeratihattayakorn, head of the kingdom’s Department of …

Thailand reports suspected case of new mpox strainWed, 21 Aug 2024 07:38:53 GMT Read More »

Lying on a hospital bed, Aisha Mohammed said she is “suffering” from cholera symptoms, an increasingly common ailment in Sudan where a prolonged war has ravaged the healthcare system.Cholera, caused by contaminated water or food, had been common in Sudan particularly during the rainy season even before war broke out in April 2023 between rival …

War-ravaged Sudan battles cholera epidemicWed, 21 Aug 2024 01:21:19 GMT Read More »

“We knew it was a banger,” drawled rapper Allan “Manazz” Mojo, one-half of young Kenyan rap duo Wadagliz whose viral song has become the unlikely beat of anti-government demonstrations that have shaken the East African country.With its upbeat rhythm and catchy chorus, “Anguka Nayo” — literally “fall with it” in Swahili, but better understood by …

‘Fall with it’: the party anthem rallying Kenyan protestersWed, 21 Aug 2024 01:16:03 GMT Read More »

Burundi’s President Evariste Ndayishimiye continues to rule with an unrelenting “wave of repression” despite hopes of change when he took office four years ago, Amnesty International said Wednesday.Human rights defenders, journalists and members of the opposition are still subject to intimidation, harassment, arbitrary detention and unfair prosecution, Amnesty said in a new report.Ndayishimiye, who took power …

Burundi still under ‘wave of repression’: AmnestyTue, 20 Aug 2024 21:32:33 GMT Read More »

Ugandan army commandos have destroyed camps belonging to Joseph Kony, the fugitive leader of the feared Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA) in the Central African Republic, Uganda’s military said on Tuesday.The operation was carried out jointly with armed forces from South Sudan and CAR against three camps east of Sam Ouandja near the Sudan border, said …

Uganda says destroys fugitive LRA leader’s camps in C.AfricaTue, 20 Aug 2024 17:16:43 GMT Read More »