Liberia's President, George Weah

George Weah asks for US help to probe mysterious deaths

Politics Oct 14
Liberia's President George Weah has asked the US to help with investigations into the mysterious deaths of three senior officials in finance-related posts, the state-linked Liberia News Agency (LINA) has reported.
Governor Nyesom Wike said the ban on protests was because police had already scrapped SARS
Nigerian state bans police brutality protests
Politics Oct 14
The governor of Nigeria's Rivers state has banned all forms of protests in the southern state, including protests against police brutality.
American rapper, Kanye West
Kanye West, other African-Americans join Nigeria's #EndSARS movement in solidarity
Politics Oct 14
#EndSARS, the 2018-created hashtag by Nigerian youth whose social media movement against police brutality resurfaced last week garnering 1.5 million tweets in one weekend to culminate offline into one of the largest protests the country has seen in a decade.
Muhammadu Buhari, President of Nigeria
Sars ban: Nigeria's Buhari pledges 'extensive' police reforms
Politics Oct 13
Nigeria's President Muhammadu Buhari has promised "extensive" reforms amid protests against police brutality.
Some teachers in Uganda are now venturing into small businesses to survive
'We have to live': Ugandan teachers turn to business as schools stay closed
Politics Oct 13
The virus has kept schools in Uganda closed since March. While salaries for teachers employed in government schools have kept coming, an estimated 150,000 teachers in private schools have not been paid for months.
The principal has five days to appeal against the ruling
SA school principal sacked over drowning of pupil
Politics Oct 13
The principal of a boys school in South Africa's economic heartland of Gauteng has been served with a dismissal notice following the drowning of a 13-year-pupil during a school trip earlier this year.
Zimbabwe's Hopewell Chin'ono
'I was jailed for a month after exposing corruption' - Zimbabwe journalist
Politics Oct 13
In our series of letters from African journalists, Zimbabwe's Hopewell Chin'ono explains how he came face-to-face with the consequences of an alleged corruption scandal he helped highlight earlier this year.