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The revered freedom fighter Sam Nujoma, who led Namibia to independence from apartheid South Africa in 1990 and served as its first president for 15 years, has passed away at the age of 95. His death was announced on Sunday by…

The incoming regional director of the World Health Organization in Africa, Tanzania’s Dr Faustine Ndugulile, has died, months after he was elected to the position. Ndugulile, a 55-year-old lawmaker and a medical doctor, died on…

South African anti-apartheid author Breyten Breytenbach has died in Paris aged 85. Breytenbach was a poet, novelist, painter and activist whose work touched on and influenced literature and the arts both domestically and abroad, his…

South Africa's former finance and labour minister and first Black central bank governor Tito Mboweni has died aged 65 following a brief illness, the presidency said. Mboweni was an anti-apartheid activist as a student who later became…

Peter Magubane was the eye behind the lens which captured the 1960 Sharpeville massacre or the trial of Nelson Mandela in 1964. The South African photographer passed away on Monday aged 91. The nation's Editors' Forum said it had been…

An American-Canadian actor Matthew Perry, best known for playing Chandler Bing in the hit ’90s TV sitcom Friends, has died at the age of 54. The actor was found dead at his home in his Los Angeles, law enforcement sources told US media.…

Ivory Coast's nationalist former president Henri Konan Bedie, who had not excluded the possibility of a return to power even in his latter days, has died aged 89, his party said. The "Ivory Coast Democratic Party-African Democratic Rally…

US Rapper Milton Powell, best known as Big Pokey, has died at aged 48years after he slumped during a performance in Texas on Saturday. The artiste was performing at a Juneteenth-themed event at a bar on Saturday when he fell backwards on…

Legendary singer, the Queen of Rock 'n Roll, Anna Mae Bullock, popular known as Tina Turner died, at the age of 83. She peacefully on Wednesday in her adopted home land of Switzerland after a long illness. This was made known by Tina's…

At least 13 civilians were killed in a camp for displaced people on Wednesday night in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, in a region where sporadic clashes between armed groups and the M23 rebellion persist, sources said. There have…