African Spotlight Spotlighting Africans at Home and Abroad

In South-Africa, a racist photo on Facebook depicting a white hunter standing over a dead black child is presently being investigated. Eugene Terrorblanche had posted the picture in 2007, causing a lot of uproar among the people. He told the police at that time that the picture was staged and the child was alive and posed for the photo. However, ...

Ethiopian Shweyga Mullah, a nanny for Hannibal and Aline Gadhafi, says Aline burned her with boiling water. The 30-year-old woman, while describing how she was horribly tortured by Hannabal Gaddafi, explained how she poured boiling water on her head, leaving her severely burned and scarred after she refused to beat a tearful child. According to Mullah, the abuse occurred three ...

Paul Biya, who has been the president of Cameroon since 1982 has finally announced on Tuesday that he would step down and new presidential election will hold on October 9, 2011. Power has lied firmly in his hands and his Cameroon People’s Democratic Movement party since he became president. The party will hold a congress on September 15 and 16 ...

The Lagos State Commissioner for Health, Dr Jide Idris, on Monday said that arrangements are ongoing to build more public toilets and good drainages to reduce the risk of cholera outbreak in the state. Idris said at a press briefing that inadequate sanitary facilities and poor drainages were some of the major causes of cholera, which accounted for about 20 ...

At least 100 people have died after heavy rains caused flooding in Ibadan on Friday. An official for the National Emergency Management agency, Tunde Adebiyi, said Monday that most of the victims are children who drowned in the southwestern city of Ibadan. He said people in the city were left with no escape routes after torrential rains on Friday damaged ...