Photo of the Day: Nigeria VP Wife, Dolapo Osinbajo Courtesy to President Buhari and Asiwaju Tinubu

This was at the 8th Bola Tinubu Colloquium in Abuja on 29 March2016, another pic after cut...

Photos: Black Coffee 40th Birthday Celebration

The We Dance Again hitmaker held a black tie birthday party on the day, attended by family and his close friends. More pics after cut

Renaissance Period: A fresh look at the business of African art By Shelley Seid

CREATIVE VISION: Magdalene Reddy, the new executive director of Durban's African Art Centre, stands below Mlamuli Mkhwanzi's work, 'Cancelled'. Reddy wants to help KZN artists move with the trends 

A new executive director, Magdalene Reddy, has been appointed and design guru Yanni Vosloo, merchandise director of Mr Price Home, has been chosen as the new chairman of the board. Both have brought fresh, creative ideas to the organisation.
The African Art Centre provides a sustainable income for more than 1000 crafters, but Reddy wants to take this further.

Photos: What ISIS Really Wants

What is the Islamic State?

Where did it come from, and what are its intentions? The simplicity of these questions can be deceiving, and few Western leaders seem to know the answers. In December, The New York Times published confidential comments by Major General Michael K. Nagata, the Special Operations commander for the United States in the Middle East, admitting that he had hardly begun figuring out the Islamic State’s appeal. “We have not defeated the idea,” he said. “We do not even understand the idea.” In the past year, President Obama has referred to the Islamic State, variously, as “not Islamic” and as al-Qaeda’s “jayvee team,” statements that reflected confusion about the group, and may have contributed to significant strategic errors.

Congolese Politician, Jean-Pierre Bemba Convicted of War Crimes by the ICC

The International Criminal Court convicted a Congolese politician, Jean-Pierre Bemba, of war crimes and crimes against humanity on Monday, finding him culpable for a devastating campaign of rape, murder and torture in the Central African Republic in 2002 and 2003.

A panel of three judges convicted Mr. Bemba of murder and pillaging, and defined the large-scale rape by his soldiers as a crime against humanity and as a war crime.

Photos: 2016 SAFTAs

 Chiedza Mhende of Generations

The 2016 South African Film and Television Awards (SAFTAs) took place in Gallagher Estate, in Midrand, on Sunday night. More pics after cut...

Africa no continent for old men

 

Today we explore the world according to life expectancy.
Africa is the only continent where nations have an average life expectancy below 60, and there are 28 of them.
Even relatively developed South Africa's dying age is 59.

Malawi president denounces TB Joshua's death 'prophecy'

 

 Nigerian pastor TB Joshua 

 

 Malawian President Peter Mutharika on Sunday attacked a popular Nigerian television evangelist over an alleged prophecy that he would die before April 1, state television reported."I'm told there is a man in Nigeria called Joshua and he is saying that Zimbabwe President Robert Mugabe and Peter Mutharika will die before April 1," he said, referring to an evangelical preacher called TB Joshua.
"Let me tell you, Joshua... you will fail. What you did in 2012 will not happen again this year," the president told a rally in the capital Lilongwe.

South Sudan is dying, and nobody is counting

A Turkana boy herds livestock to grazing grounds in the disputed area of the Ilemi triangle in northwestern Kenya near the borders with Ethiopia and South Sudan.
Image by: REUTERS

 

Men, women and children have been shot, speared, burned, castrated, hung, drowned, run over, suffocated, starved and blown up, their corpses abandoned where they fell, bulldozed into mass graves or, in at least one case, eaten in ritual cannibalism.
But the UN has stuck to a guesstimate of 10,000 dead since the early months of the war, even as the killing escalated and spread across the country.

'Italy's largest contractor a threat to thousands in Kenya and Ethiopia'

The Karo Tribe are one of the endangered tribes of the world with an estimated population of 1.500. They live in South Ethiopia along the banks of the Omo River. File photo
Image by: Massimo Rumi 

 

 

Survival International (SI)‚ a global movement for the rights of tribal peoples‚ reported engineering giant Salini to the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development over the construction of the dam‚ which has cut off the Omo River’s regular flooding‚ which 100‚000 people rely on to water their crops and livestock.

Photos: New Catholic report tells stories of murder, kidnapping and torture in West Papua

Pacific horror: A new Catholic report has shown allegations of recent military and
police intimidation, beatings and torture, kidnapping and murder in the country.

ALLEGATIONS of recent military and police intimidation, beatings and torture,
kidnapping and murder in West Papua, have been documented in a new Church report.
The report documents Muslims being radicalised in the once predominantly Christian
 Papuan provinces,
 and “very active” Muslim militias that burn down Papuan houses.
The report was compiled by the Brisbane Catholic Justice and Peace Commission’s
 Shadow Human Rights Fact Finding Mission to West Papua, following a visit to
West Papua last month.
It has not yet been publicly released, nor comment sought from Indonesian authorities.

Photos: AMVCA 2016: Which of your Nollywood stars nailed it?

 Rita Dominic
 More pics after cut.....

Deadly 'reprisal attacks' hit Central African Republic

Violence between rival militias has left thousands dead and displaced more than 400,000 people [EPA]

 

At least 10 people have been killed in clashes between rival armed groups in Central African Republic, police said.
The violence in the eastern town of Bambari appeared to be "in reprisal" for the murder of two young Muslims by unidentified assailants on March 2, a police spokeswoman said on Monday.
"We currently have a tally of 10 dead, including the two young Muslims whose death prompted the violence," the spokeswoman said, adding that "a majority" of the victims were civilians.

Malawi and Africa continue to grapple with how to deal with 'albino hunters' By JAMES ODZIWA

 

Persecution of people with albinism (sometimes abbreviated PWA) is occurring in the African continent for different reasons. One is based on the belief that certain body parts of albinistic people can transmit magical powers. Such superstition is present especially in some parts of the African Great Lakes region, it has been promulgated and exploited by witch doctors and others who use such body parts as ingredients in rituals, concoctions and potions with the claim that their magic will bring prosperity to the user (muti or medicine murder).

As a result, people with albinism have been persecuted, killed and dismembered, and graves of albinos dug up and desecrated. At the same time, people with albinism have also been ostracized and even killed for exactly the opposite reason, because they are presumed to be cursed and bring bad luck. The persecutions of people with albinism take place mostly in Sub-Saharan African communities, especially among East Africans, with Malawi amongst those countries.

Forbes Woman Africa and MTN Business Come Together For First Leading Women Summit In Johannesburg, South Africa.

  More than 120 leaders and influencers in business, politics, technology, media, philanthropy, fashion and entertainment will be participating in the first annual Leading Women Summit presented by MTN Business in association with Forbes Woman Africa, which will be held in Johannesburg on March 10, 2016. The invitation-only summit will bring together a multi-generational group of influential women to forge partnerships, find solutions, and take actions with the theme for this year titled: The Rise Of The Millennial.