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  The woman was bent over the still figure of the child as she tried to pry his mouth open so she could feed him some of the concoction in the earthenware pot she was holding. The boy turnedhis head away from his mother and let out a loudwail. His little three year old cry filled the tiny hut and the woman dropped the earthenware pot on the floor as she sat on the mat the boy lay on. She pulled him closer to her gently and lay his head on her laps as she tried to comfort him. “Akanni mi, dakun ma se mi bayi, oju kan epa oju kan ere.” She pleaded with him in Yoruba in a tear filled voice as she begged the sick boy to take his medicine.The boy’s father stood at the entrance of the tiny hut, his rigid frame oozing concealed tension. He was a tall man and his face held the weather-beaten look of a man who spent most of his time outdoors. His hands were roughened from many years of working as a farmer and his muscles well developed from lifting heavy objects.   His heart felt li...

A patient waits on the floor alone, without carers who are on strike, at the Kisumu County Hospital in Kisumu on December 8, 2016. Kenyan medics and hospitals workers have embarked on a nationwide strike. Unions are demanding a 300-percent pay rise for doctors and 25- to 40-percent pay rise for nurses that they say was agreed in a 2013 collective bargaining agreement, but has yet to be implemented. Several patients have died as a result of lack of care in public hospitals, many of which are completely unstaffed. Kenyans have been directed to private clinics that are unaffordable to the majority of the population a deployed army doctors on Friday to the country’s main teaching and referral hospital where the last remaining doctors joined a five-day strike that has crippled healthcare services around the country. “Our doctors are already at the hospital to help needy cases,” said military spokesman Paul Njuguna. “It is within our mandate and that is why we stepped in.” T...

Disgraced former FIFA president Sepp Blatter accused his successor Gianni Infantino of showing a lack of respect for him in an interview with the BBC. The 80-year-old — who on Monday lost his appeal at the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) over a six year ban from football for a two million Swiss franc ($2 million/1.8 million euro) payment to then UEFA boss Michel Platini — said Infantino had dropped by his house once since he was elected in February and Blatter had raised matters he thought should be dealt with. “I am definitely not a happy man (with) what happened with FIFA,” Blatter told the BBC. “I have never seen in any company that the new president… was not paying respect to the old president. “After his election we had a very good contact and he stopped at my house and we had a chat. I told him I have a list of questions that should be solved in Fifa which has not been solved before. “(Infantino) said ‘I will work on that’ and he never c...

  Opposition challenger Nana Akufo-Addo has a clear lead in Ghana’s hotly contested presidential election, local media reported Friday, although official results have yet to be published. Akufo-Addo has won more than 54 percent of the vote in the race against incumbent President John Mahama, according to local radio stations PeaceFM radio and CitiFM. Huge crowds of jubilant Akufo-Addo supporters were celebrating at the home of the 72-year-old New Patriotic Party (NPP) leader who had already claimed victory on Thursday. Mahama, who is seeking a second term in office, pledged to respect the results of an election being seen as a test of stability of Africa’s most secure democracy. “I want to assure the nation that we will respect the outcome of the elections, positive or negative,” the charismatic 58-year-old said at his Accra residence. He called for calm and patience over the slow pace of the count after Wednesday’s presidential and parliame...

At least 30 people were killed on Friday when two female suicide bombers detonated their explosives in a busy market in northeast Nigeria, the military said. “At least 30 people have been killed in the suicide blasts carried out by two female suicide bombers in the market” in the town of Madagali, military spokesman major Badare Akintoye told AFP. “Several people have been injured in the attack,” said Akintoye on the phone from a military base in the town of Mubi, 100 kilometres (60 miles) away. A local government official and the National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA) confirmed the attack, the latest in Boko Haram’s seven-year insurgent campaign in the restive region. “The two bombers who (were) disguised as customers, detonated their suicide belts at the section of the market selling grains and second-hand clothing,” said Yusuf Muhammad, the chairman of Madagali local government. “We still don’t have the exact number of those injured but ...

President Muhammadu Buhari has all urged political parties participating in the rerun election in Rivers State to ensure the elections is peaceful. Buhari said in a statement on Friday that the election should not be seen as a do-or-die affair, noting that all political parties, candidates and other stakeholders  had the responsibility of ensuring the polls were conducted without rigging, violence and intimidation of opponents and electoral officials. He reminded politicians and their supporters in Rivers to put “the higher interest of the people of the state in mind, as they go to the polls on Saturday. “The rerun elections should not be seen as a do-or-die to the extent that people will be killed, maimed and property destroyed in a mindless display of crude primitive instincts.” Buhari said innocent blood should never be sacrificed on the altar of political contest for temporary power. He urged security and law enforcement agencies to exhibit professiona...