Burkina Faso's Loango open-air museum attracts tourists

Located about 30 kilometers north-east of Ouagadougou in Burkina Faso, Loango’s open-air museum has become an essential sanctuary for many national and foreign tourists who love granite sculptures.

On a surface area of about one square kilometre in a mineral universe, amidst dry grasses, sculptural forms spring up during campaigns organized annually.

Rosalie Nayaga a tourist said, ‘‘we are very astonished to see these works sculpted by Burkinabes .But there are no women among the sculptors.We need gender equality.And so the ministry must make an effort to train women sculptors’‘.

Football Leaks reveals 'messy' wages for Lionel Messi

The French website Mediapart has just revealed the staggering incomes and figures in world football. In a document entitled Football Leaks, the media highlights the mega salaries paid by footballers, but hidden by their clubs.

One of the notable names that pops out of the documents is Lionel Messi. The Barcelona and Argentina forward is one of the highest paid footballers in the world.

Zimbabwe gets its first billionaire

Telecom tycoon Strive Masiyiwa has become Zimbabwe’s first billionaire.

According to a report by Forbes, Masiyiwa, 57, is now worth $1.7 billion, a fortune sufficient to rank him along other African billionaires like Nigeria’s Aliko Dangote.

The Forbes 2018 List of the Richest Africans confirmed that Dangote is still the richest man on the continent with a fortune of $12.2 billion. His investments in cement, oil and fertiliser production have paid off.

South Koreans officially sue Apple for slowdown maneuver

The U.S. tech giant Apple Inc. and its subsidiary in South Korea are facing the first class-action lawsuit for purposely slowing older models of iPhones.

A civic group representing 150 iPhone users submitted an indictment to the Seoul Central District Court on Thursday, demanding that Apple pay 2.2 million won for each of them in compensation.

The legal action came after Apple admitted slowing older iPhone models to keep them run at an optimal performance and stop the batteries from dying.

Police fires teargas on churchgoers in DR Congo

Congolese police fired teargas on Friday to disperse dozens of churchgoers who had gathered in the capital Kinshasa to mourn seven people killed in protests against President Joseph Kabila two weeks ago.

Opposition figureheads including Felix Tshisekedi and Vital Kamerhe and foreign diplomats were among the mourners.