Africa

Four students of Eleyele Secondary School have been arrested for raping and defiling a 16-year-old schoolmate who was mentally unstable in Ibadan, Nigeria, according to reports. “The police charged the minors with conspiracy and unlawful sexual intercourse,” reports said. “The students conspired to commit the offense,”according to Inspector Folake Ewe, …

The World Happiness Report has released its 2023 report on the happiest countries in the world. World Happiness Report is an annual study that illustrates the real feelings of people around the world about their life situation. No African country is in the top 10 and Mauritius, which occupies 1st …

A former Black Stars player Emmanuel Oblitey has died at the Joy Specialist Medical Clinic in Accra, Ghana, according to reports. He died on Sunday, March 19, 2023 at the age of 69. The former Black Stars was a member of the Africa Cup of Nations winning squad in 1963. …

Ugandan MPs on Tuesday passed an anti-LGBTQ+ bill that would make same-sex acts punishable by death, prompting strong condemnation from human rights defenders. Almost all of the 389 legislators voted late Tuesday in favor of the anti-homosexuality bill. The new law provides life imprisonment for sexual relations between homosexuals and …

The Tanzanian health ministry says a mysterious disease that killed five people has been identified as Marburg haemorrhagic fever, local media reported. The virus causes high fever, often accompanied by bleeding and organ failure. It is part of a group of viruses that includes Ebola. Tanzania’s health minister, Ummy Mwalimu …

A grandmother set fire to her son, wife and two grandchildren in Apomu community in Akure, the capital of Ondo State, Nigeria. The old woman complained of being starved of food while living with her son in the same house. “She set the house ablaze while the family members were …

19 people have sustained various degrees of injuries in an accident at Gomoa Onyaadze on the Kasoa-Cape Coast Highway, Ghana, according to reports. “The unfortunate incident occurred after the back tyre of a sprinter bus with number GN 3452-17 travelling from Adubiase burst,” according to Adom News. This caused the …

The lifeless body of a man was found hanging in an uncompleted building at Tanokrom, a community in the Sekondi-Takoradi Metropolis of the Western Region, Ghana. The man was found hanging on a rope in the building by residents and they rushed to inform the the assembly member of Tanokrom …

Some Russian secondary schools have started teaching African languages, a way to strengthen the country’s relationship with Africa, Professor Alexeï Maslov announced at the 2nd Russia-Africa Parliamentary Conference. It is above all about Swahili and Amharic, which are languages originating in East Africa, Alexeï Maslov, director of the Institute of …

An undergraduate of the University of Port Harcourt died due to a lack of bed space in the hospital for prompt treatment in the Lagos University Teaching Hospital, Nigeria. “The victim was studying in school when she suffered a crisis and was rushed to the hospital,” according to information. She …