AFRICA

Prince Harry to visit former mine field where Diana walked

5:22 pm September 27, 2019

Johannesburg: Prince Harry is following in the footsteps of his late mother, Princess Diana, whose walk through an active mine field in Angola years ago helped to lead to a global ban on the deadly weapons. The prince on Friday is set to visit the spot where Diana was famously photographed during her own Africa […]

US man drowns while proposing underwater in Tanzania

10:07 pm September 22, 2019

Nairobi: An American man has drowned while proposing to his girlfriend underwater at an idyllic island off the coast of Tanzania, a luxury resort said in a statement Sunday. His girlfriend Kenesha Antoine posted on her Facebook page footage of Steven Weber proposing to her through the window of their underwater hotel room at the […]

UK judge rules that newspaper invaded Meghan's privacy

Harry and Meghan make 1st official tour as family in Africa

10:07 pm September 20, 2019

JOHANNESBURG: Prince Harry and his wife, Meghan, along with their infant son, Archie, are set to take their first official tour as a family, starting Monday in a troubled South Africa whose president says women and children are “under siege” by shocking violence. South Africa is still shaken by the rape and murder of a […]

South Africa court says spanking children unconstitutional

8:26 pm September 18, 2019

Johannesburg: South Africa’s highest court on Wednesday upheld a ruling that spanking or corporal punishment of children at home was unconstitutional, saying the practices violate child rights. In a much-awaited decision, the South African Constitutional Court backed a 2017 court ruling that sentenced a father for assaulting his 13-year-old son for watching a pornographic film. […]

Niger, China launch oil pipeline project crossing Benin

8:03 pm September 18, 2019

Niamey: Niger and China are to build a 2,000-kilometre (1,250-mile) pipeline to carry crude oil from southeast Niger to the port of Seme in Benin, the Niger president’s office announced Wednesday. President Mahamadou Issoufou launched the project on Tuesday at the Agadem oil field in the southeast of the country, where the China National Petroleum […]