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Zambian authorities Monday suspended a broadcast licence for a Lusaka-based private TV station deemed to be anti-government. The Independent Broadcasting Authority (IBA) said the suspension of Prime TV was with immediate effect and would last 30 days. IBA board secretary Josephine Mapoma told reporters that; “the IBA has found that the station exhibited unprofessional elements in its broadcasting through unbalanced coverage, opinionated news and material likely to incite violence using derogatory language”. During the suspension,…

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The United States is trying to prevent simmering tensions between India and Pakistan from impacting a third country: Afghanistan, where a fragile peace push is underway to try to end more than 17 years of war with Taliban insurgents. U.S. President Donald Trump’s administration has been publicly focused on lowering tensions between the nuclear-armed rivals since a Feb. 14 suicide car bomb in an Indian-controlled area of Kashmir triggered the first Indian…

South African rapper, Cassper Nyovest has taken to Twitter to react in a series of tweets after a video of singer Babes Wodumo getting assaulted by her on-again-off-again boyfriend, DJ Mampintsha surfaced online. South African singer Babes Wodumo got social media users outraged and heartbroken after her boyfriend, South African DJ, Mampintsha, was caught on Instagram live video, physically assaulting her. In the video which was seen on the singer’s page, Babes Wodumo is seen…

A Video of South African singer Babes Wodumo being beaten live on Instagram by her boyfriend Mampintsha has surfaced on social media. The video has angered a lot of people on twitter. The video appears to have been a live feed on Instagram by Babes Wodumo. It has now being shared all over social media. In it, Babes could be heard saying something and then Mampintsha quickly moves to beat her up. Babes could be…

A player in the Gabonese first division, Herman Tsinga, collapsed during a game over the weekend and was pronounced dead later, local media reported on Monday. The Gabon Football Federation, FEGAFOOT, is now saddled with the seventh such incident in 12 years, a local daily newspaper, The Union said. Tsinga, a striker for Akanda FC, collapsed in the 23rd minute of the match with Missile FC on Saturday in the capital Libreville, the newspaper reported….

Rap Mogul, Diddy has openly admitted that he played himself by not marrying his late ex Kim Porter when she was alive. After the rapper shared a sweet photo of himself and the mother of his three children cuddling on Instagram along with a broken heart emoji as his caption, one fan commented, “When she was alive you didn’t wanna marry her,” Diddy then replied, “I know. Played myself smh.” Porter was found unresponsive in her bed at…

WWE legend John Cena has had his hopes of a reunion with Nikki Bella dashed as she’s reportedly “completely done” with him.    Just last week, Bella, real name Stephanie Nicole Garcia-Colace, suggested she was open to rekindling their troubled relationship. The couple split in July 2018 after six years together, but Bella, 35, gave a surprising interview hinting at a possible reconciliation with Cena, 41. The former Divas Champion told Hollywood Life: “I’m looking for someone…

Sixteen people were killed in a fresh attack on three communities in the Gwer West Local Government Area of Benue State by suspected herdsmen. The suspected herdsmen, who were said to have invaded the communities on Saturday, shot indiscriminately and killed 16 people. The Chairman of Gwer West Local Government, Francis Ayagan, confirmed the attack. He said, “Sixteen people were killed by militia herders in Tse Tuma, Chiachia and Tse Targu communities and neighbouring villages,…

Malaysian authorities said on Friday they have arrested six people, including four foreigners, suspected of planning attacks or being members of militant groups. Malaysia has been on high alert since gunmen allied with Islamic State (IS) carried out a series of attacks in Jakarta, the capital of neighbouring Indonesia, in January 2016. Police said the six were arrested in five separate raids between December and January, on suspicion of planning attacks or having links to…

Haiti’s President Jovenel Moise struck a combative note on Thursday in his first address since violent protests flared in the capital, defying calls for his ouster but urging dialogue to address soaring inflation and alleged misuse of funds. Thousands of demonstrators have been calling for days for Moise to resign and for an independent probe into the whereabouts of funds from the PetroCaribe agreement, an alliance between Caribbean countries and Venezuela. The agreement’s preferential terms…