Africa

The Akwa Ibom State Police Command had arrested a man for killing his 26-year-old son, for harvesting cassava on his farm in the Essien Udim Local Government Area of the state, Nigeria. “The suspect used a machete and killed his 26 year-old son, burnt the corpse and dumped the carcass …

Popular Nigerian singer-songwriter Yemi Alade says she has survived a car accident while touring in Spain, local media reported. In a post on her Instagram on Tuesday, the artist revealed that the accident happened last Thursday while travelling between Barcelona and Benicassim. No fatalities have been reported. She said that …

Gabonese President Ali Bongo has campaigned for re-election in remote corners of the rainforested nation this month, seeking to dispel opposition claims he lacks the strength and track record to fulfil generous electoral promises in a third term, Reuters reported. Gabon holds presidential, legislative and local elections on August 26. …

A 24-year-old woman has been arrested for killing her co-wife’s four-day-old baby with an insecticide at Bantu Village in the Ningi Local Government Area of Bauchi State, Nigeria, according to reports. “The suspect entered the co-wife’s room with liquid insecticide and applied it to the baby’s unhealed umbilical cord,” reports …

A sales employee in the Kenyan capital, Nairobi, has been charged with the theft of two coffins and 26 coffin handles, local media reported. Maureen Khikani, who was an employee of St Augustine Funeral Services, is accused of stealing the items over a week-long period in May last year. She …

British police say they have charged a former Nigerian oil minister, Diezani Alison-Madueke, with bribery offences. The UK National Crime Agency said it suspected she had accepted bribes in return for awarding multi-million-dollar oil and gas contracts. Ms Alison-Madueke, who is also a former Opec president, served in the administration …

Ugandan police have arrested four people in Buikwe district following a raid on a massage parlor suspected of offering sexual services to gays and lesbians, local media reported. Hellen Butoto, the Ssezibwa Region police spokesperson, says all the suspects are employees of Cloud 9 Massage and Chill Outs in Bukaya …

The leader of the Russian Wagner mercenaries, Yevgeny Prigojine, published this Monday, his first video since he took the lead of a short-lived mutiny at the end of June. He appears in a recording – probably shot in Africa – on Telegram channels affiliated with the Wagner Group. We can …

Leaders of the BRICS nations – Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa – converged on Johannesburg on Tuesday for a summit where they will weigh expanding the bloc as some members push to forge it into a counterweight to the West, Reuters reported. Heightened global tensions provoked by the …

The Supreme Court in Central African Republic has approved the outcome of the July referendum that increases the length of a presidential term to seven years, but allows the president to run for office as many times as they like. The court declared that an overwhelming majority of 95% approved …