Twelve stories, breathtaking views of Table Mountain and a minimal ecological footprint: in the center of Cape Town will soon rise the world’s tallest building constructed from industrial hemp. The workers are putting the finishing touches to this future “Hemp Hotel”, a hemp hotel which will have 54 rooms and …
Read More »Ghana: a security guard assaults a pregnant woman
A pregnant woman was assaulted on Monday, May 1, 2023 as she went to the hospital to be operated on with her child at the Tamale Teaching Hospital, Ghana. “The woman decided to step out to pay her bills and the security man refused to grant her entry which led …
Read More »More than 100 dead in floods and landslides in Rwanda
The death toll from landslides and floods in Rwanda has now risen to more than 100 amid heavy rains in the country, local media reported, citing authorities. The Rwandan public broadcaster, RBA, reports that 109 have so far died, 95 of those in the western province and 14 in the …
Read More »Man dies trying to rescue goat from well
A 35-year-old man has lost his life while attempting to rescue a goat from drowning in a well at Atebubu district in the Bono East Region, Ghana. “A neighbor asked the victim to save her goat that was drowning in the community well, which he accepted,” reports said. Unaware of …
Read More »Uganda’s parliament reconsiders anti-homosexuality law
Ugandan parliament has watered down an anti-homosexuality bill that originally criminalised people for simply identifying as LGBTQ+. The proposed legislation, first approved in March, was returned to the house after President Yoweri Museveni suggested changes. He said the clause penalising people who identify as gay would have led to the …
Read More »6-year-old boy electrocuted after touching an electrified store
A six-year-old boy has been electrocuted after touching an electricity-wired shop at Fetteh Kakraba in the Gomoa East District of the Central Region of Ghana. “The boy was playing along the container belonging to a self-styled pastor in the area,” reports said. His burnt body was discovered by the pastor …
Read More »Autopsies of deadly fast victims begin in Kenya
The autopsy and identification of more than a hundred bodies found in a forest in southeastern Kenya, where the followers of a sect gathered, began on Monday morning, announced the interior Minister Kithure Kindiki. “The process of autopsying the bodies begins immediately,” Interior Minister Kithure Kindiki told reporters outside the …
Read More »Ugandan minister Charles Okello Engola shot dead by his bodyguard
Uganda’s Minister of State for Labour, Employment and Industrial Relations, Colonel (rtd) Charles Okello Engola was shot dead by his bodyguard on Tuesday morning at his home in Kyanja, a suburb of Kampala. It is not yet clear whether there was an argument between the soldier and the minister. Some …
Read More »Ghana: farmer jailed for stealing water pumps
The Hohoe Circuit Court has sentenced a 29 year-old farmer to one-year imprisonment for stealing two old water pumping machines in Ghana, reports said. “The complainant had left some old water pumping machines in the store and was later called to come in and identify some water pumping machines,” the …
Read More »Kenyan pastor Ezekiel Odero arrested after 98 bodies exhumed
Ezekiel Odero, one of Kenya’s most influential pastors, was arrested on Thursday after being accused of the ‘mass murder of his followers’ The pastor, all dressed in white, Bible in hand, was transferred to the regional police headquarters in Mombasa, local media report. The arrest comes as authorities announced measures …
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