Africa

A community in the Kassena Nankana Municipality in the Upper East Region, was thrown into a state of mourning when two siblings and their friend got drowned in the White Volta River, Ghana. The deceased, all teenagers, were among eight others who had gone to the river to wash mango …

Forty-eight million people in West and Central Africa will face acute food insecurity in the coming months, a 10-year peak spurred by insecurity, climate shocks, COVID-19 and prices high, United Nations humanitarian agencies warned on Tuesday. West and Central Africa has faced increasing risks caused by higher temperatures and erratic …

Prosecutors in Switzerland have charged a former Gambian interior minister with crimes against humanity and other offences. They accuse Ousman Sonko of involvement in and failure to prevent systematic attacks on opponents of the former president, Yahya Jammeh. Mr Sonko held several senior posts in the authoritarian administration of Mr …

Authorities in Japan are planning to send a military aircraft to evacuate the country’s citizens from Sudan amid the deadly fighting. Japanese government spokesman Hirokazu Matsuno said that as of Wednesday, there were 60 Japanese nationals stuck in Sudan. He said the government would do “its utmost to ensure the …

A 33-year-old woman has sold her 18-month-old baby for N600,000 to offset her bank loan in Sango in Ado-Odo Ota Local Government Area of Ogun State, Nigeria, according to reports. “She borrowed money from a microfinance bank and was unable to pay back the money,” reports said. “The bank agents …

A 30-year-old man from Sabuwar Santa in Musawa Local Government Area of Katsina State has been arrested after allegedly abducting and burying a three-year-old boy alive in Nigeria. “The suspect was have buried the abducted boy alive despite collecting N150,000 out of the N800,000 ransom he demanded from his father,” …

A British man from Bournemouth has been jailed for 10 years in Morocco for possessing and distributing counterfeit money while on holiday in Marrakech with his friend. The 29-year-old and his friend went to a nightclub on the last night of their holiday and were arrested by the Moroccan police …

A US diplomatic convoy to Sudan came under fire on Monday, but no one was injured, US Secretary of State Antony Blinken said on Tuesday. According to the diplomat who spoke separately with the two rival generals struggling for power, the convoy was attacked but no one was injured. “I …

The opposition Ennahda party in Tunisia said its headquarters were raided by police hours after its leader, Rached Ghannouchi, was arrested. Mr Ghannouchi is the latest critic of the authoritarian Tunisian president, Kais Saied, to be detained. There’s been no news from him since his arrest in Tunis on Monday. …

A court in Ikeja charged with sexual offenses and domestic violence has remanded a cleric accused of raping two members of his church in Nigeria. The Clergyman is the founder of “I Reign Christian Ministry” in Kirikiri Correctional Center pending the fulfillment of his bail conditions. Justice Ramon Oshodi admitted …