Africa

The Hohoe Circuit Court has sentenced a 29 year-old farmer to one-year imprisonment for stealing two old water pumping machines in Ghana, reports said. “The complainant had left some old water pumping machines in the store and was later called to come in and identify some water pumping machines,” the …

Ezekiel Odero, one of Kenya’s most influential pastors, was arrested on Thursday after being accused of the ‘mass murder of his followers’ The pastor, all dressed in white, Bible in hand, was transferred to the regional police headquarters in Mombasa, local media report. The arrest comes as authorities announced measures …

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A 35-year-old man has set a man ablaze for insulting his wife’s private part at Sehwi Bekwai in the Bibiani Anhweaso Bekwai municipality of the Western North Region, Ghana. “The deceased bought alcohol on credit from the suspect’s wife and refused to pay, leading to her raining insults on him,” …

President Macky Sall has appointed Fatou Fall to the rank of general in the Senegalese army, Senegalese Defense Minister Sidiki Kaba announced. Fatou Fall thus becomes the first woman to obtain this rank. “The President of the Republic had to make 3 important appointments of generals, but the flagship appointment …

A statuette of Buddha has been discovered at an ancient Egyptian site near the Red Sea, revealing the important trade links between the Roman Empire and India, the Ministry of Antiquities said Thursday. American and Polish archaeologists discovered this statue in Berenice, an ancient port city in the southeast, it …

Uganda’s police detained 11 female members of parliament on Thursday who they accused of staging of an unlawful protest, with some of the lawmakers sustaining injuries during their arrest, Reuters reported. The lawmakers were detained just outside the parliament buildings in the capital Kampala as they prepared to march to …

UK Ambassador to Sudan Giles Lever has moved to neighboring Ethiopia after the embassy temporarily closed due to the conflict in the country. “From Addis Ababa, he will lead the UK’s diplomatic efforts in the region to bring fighting to an end in Sudan,” the British Foreign Office said in …

Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni has asked the country’s lawmakers to make clear in a proposed anti-homosexuality law that it is not criminal to merely identify as gay, local media reported. This measure is part of an attempt to tone down a bill that has drawn international condemnation. Last month, Ugandan …

A 23-year-old commercial tricycle operator has lost his life as he was killed by members of a secret cult in Ilorin, Kwara State capital of Nigeria, reports said. The victim’s corpse was found dumped in front of a mosque in the Abayawo area of Ilorin. “The assailants cut off his …