Africa

The body of a 17-year-old boy was found hanging on a tree as he was declared missing in Ondo West Local Government Area of Ondo State, Nigeria. The deceased was said to be living with his father along the College Road area of the community before the incident. “His family …

Nigeria’s electoral commission has postponed elections for state governors and local assemblies by one week. The polls had been scheduled to take place on Saturday. They will now be held on 18 March. Nigeria’s opposition had asked to check electronic voting machines. A court rejected their complaint. But the electoral …

Uganda’s Speaker of Parliament, Anita Among, said the anti-gay bill would be tabled and dealt with quickly at “whatever the cost”. Ms Among made the remarks after the architect of the Bill, Mr Asuman Basalirwa, was unable to table the Bill for first reading yesterday because the Ministry of Finance …

Uganda’s police on Wednesday briefly closed a busy expressway that connects the capital, Kampala, to the country’s main airport after a security scare, local, media reported. A bomb squad was deployed to conduct an investigation along the Entebbe expressway before it was cleared for public use, according to tweets by …

At least two people died and 16 others were injured in a train crash in the town of Qalioub, north of Cairo, on Tuesday, the Egyptian health ministry said. Initially, the ministry reported in a press release “one death and 16 injured”, six of whom have already been treated. It …

A 16-year-old girl has been arrested for pushing a 52-year-old woman to death in Isolo, in the Akure area of the state in Nigeria, according to reports. “The suspect, after taking her bath didn’t cover her hair so the deceased to her to cover it and it led to the …

A 30-year-old farmer has been sentenced to 12 years imprisonment with hard labour for defiling an eight-year-old girl at Sehwi Kwame Tawiakrom in the Western North Region of Ghana. “The suspect called the girl to accompany him to his farm and collect something for her mother,” reports said. When they …

A 22-year-old soldier has been killed at Taifa, a suburb of Ashaiman in the Greater Accra Region in Ghana, according to reports. “The victim was stabbed severally to death by unknown attackers as he was returning from his girlfriend’s house at Taifa,” according to reports. He was heading towards his …

The Ambassador of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) to Liberia, Josephine Nkrumah, has reported to authorities death threats made against her by a Facebook user, local media reported. In a letter to Liberia’s Justice Ministry, Ms Nkrumah said the user, identified as Carson, had posted on Facebook …

A smiling two-dimpled limestone sphinx has been discovered in Egypt, in a Byzantine pool inside a two-tiered tomb, local media reported, citing the Egyptian ministry of tourism and antiquities. “The sphinx was discovered alongside a Roman stele engraved in demotic and hieroglyphics,” the ministry said Monday. The stele still needs …