Africa

Police in Assin-Praso have intensified the search for a teenage father who allegedly poisoned his 10-day-old baby with a weed killer in the Assin North district of Ghana’s Central Region. “The move was to kill the baby, who had become a burden of a sort to the suspect and the …

Liberia’s electorate is expected to announce the final results of the presidential election after declaring it has completed counting of ballots across the country. Voting was repeated last week in two polling stations in north-eastern Nimba county. This is after ballots were tampered with by unknown people during the first …

Algeria’s appeal court has sentenced 38 people for the 2021 lynching of a man wrongly suspected of starting wildfires. The court on Monday found them guilty of multiple charges, including murder, torture and incitement leading to murder. The 38 were handed death sentences, but these will be commuted to life …

Police in the Ashanti Region have arrested the chief of New Akrofuom for attempting to sodomise a 17-year-old boy in the Adansi Asokwa district, Ghana. “The chief entered the teenager’s room with the intention of engaging in the act with him, but the boy alerted some residents,” reports said. “The …

About 817 suspected cholera cases have been recorded in three Sudanese states, including 35 deaths, local media reported. The cases were reported in Gedaref, South Kordofan and Khartoum states, privately owned al-Rakoba news website reported, citing the World Health Organization (WHO). The UN last week said that months of conflict …

Nearly 200 French soldiers have left Niger’s south-western Ouallam town amid ongoing withdrawals from the Sahel nation, state-owned Tele Sahel TV station reports. It said that 193 French soldiers based in Ouallam left their camp for Chad on Sunday. The troops reportedly left with 28 lorries as well as 24 …

A man was electrocuted while he was fixing power on a pole in Muyavwa sub-location in Busia County in Kenya, according to reports. “The deceased was on duty when he was hit by the live wire,” reports said. The man died on the spot after being burnt severely. The body …

A 29-year-old man fell into a pit latrine as he tried to retrieve a mobile phone in Emakwale area, Kakamega, kenya, according to reports. “A man went to relieve himself inside a pit latrine when his mobile fell into the pit latrine,” according to reports. “The deceased had offered to …

A butchered body of a 45-year-old man was found on a farm in Abrokro, a suburb of Agona Nyakrom in Ghana’s Central Region. “The deceased was found with cutlass wound behindhis neck and on his head,” reports said. “The deceased told a co-tenants last Wednesday that he would be travelling …

The governor of Nigeria’s central Kogi state, Yahaya Bello, has denied he was the target of an assassination attempt along the busy Lokoja-Abuja highway. His spokesperson Kingsley Fanwo had earlier been quoted by local media saying that gunmen “dressed in military uniforms” attacked Mr Bello’s convoy on Sunday. Mr Fanwo …