Facebook has yet to find evidence that user-reported accounts that proliferated in the Philippines at the weekend had engaged in malicious and coordinated acts, the world’s biggest social network said on Thursday. A deluge of impostor accounts using the identities of students, journalists and government officials alarmed social media users and prompted an investigation by […]

Guinean President Alpha Condé has dismissed detractors stressing that he was fit to rule and would live to “bury” those who wish him dead. The president is quoted as saying in a radio interview that he had stopped receiving visitors and was making fewer appearances due to the impact of the coronavirus pandemic. ALSO READ: 21-yr- […]

Zimbabwe’s National Security Council has dismissed reports of an impending coup and said the country is stable. The council accused allies of former President Robert Mugabe and some opposition leaders of peddling the rumours. Home Affairs Minister Kazembe Kazembe accused several groups of anti-government activism including foreign diplomats. He named opposition figures, who he accused […]

A Kenyan policeman is under investigation after being filmed whipping and dragging a woman tied to a motorcycle on an earth road. The woman, identified in local media as Mercy Cherono, was reportedly linked to an alleged robbery in Nakuru county, in the Rift Valley region. She has been hospitalised with wounds on her legs […]

Unilever proposed combining its Dutch and British legal entities in a single holding company based in Britain on Thursday after shareholders sank an earlier plan to move the global consumer goods group’s headquarters to the Netherlands. The proposed unification, which would unwind a structure that has been in place since 1930, would give Dove soap […]