Africa

Leaders of Sudan’s warring army and paramilitary forces agreed to a seven-day truce from May 4 to 11 in a phone call with South Sudanese President Salva Kiir, the ministry of Foreign Affairs said on Tuesday. “General Abdel Fattah al-Burhane (…) and General Mohamed Hamdane Daglo (…) have agreed in …

A 53-year-old man was stabbed to death in an unfinished building at Salvation Estate in Owode community, Ajah area of Lagos State, Nigeria. The victim who engaged in menial jobs, returned home, had his meal and went to bed. A yet-to-be-identified assailant made his way into the building at midnight …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …