Africa

Suspected Islamist militants on Wednesday killed four Kenya highway agency workers in an ambush near the country’s eastern border with Somalia, police said. The workers were leading a three-car convoy from the town of Garissa to Bura when they hit an improvised explosive device (EID) planted in the road. “A …

A 35-year-old assistant headmaster of Ekumfi Akra Methodist Basic School is battling for his life after he was shot in a bush near a teacher’s bungalow, Ghana, according to reports. “The assailant subsequently shot at the headmaster, but they missed the target, “ according to Adom News. He was shot …

A Nigerian court has struck out a police regulation that forbids unmarried female officers from getting pregnant, local media reported. In a landmark judgment, a judge ruled that the regulation, which calls for the dismissal of any unmarried officer who gets pregnant, was “discriminatory, illegal, null and void”. It followed …

Ugandan authorities have announced the end of the Ebola outbreak which began earlier in September and killed more than 50 people. The announcement follows a 42-day period without any new confirmed cases. “We have successfully controlled the Ebola outbreak in Uganda,” Health Minister Jane Ruth Aceng said at a ceremony …

A one-year-old baby girl got burnt in a fire outbreak that engulfed two wooden structures in a house at Mataheko, near the Mars Business School, in Accra, Ghana, according to reports. The baby was asleep when the fire gutted the structures. Apart from this, other occupants in the affected structures …

A Yaba Magistrate’s Court has sentenced a 38-year-old man to two years imprisonment for stealing 221 tiles and 10 buckets of paint belonging to his employer, Nigeria, according to reports. The convict was arrested by the police after his employer made a formal complaint to the police. The convict, who …

Egyptian authorities have arrested three people who attempted to steal a 10-ton statue of Pharaoh Ramses II using a crane to lift the statues and excavate the antiquities in the area, according to reports. Ramses II, one of the most famous pharaohs of the 19th Dynasty, ruled for 67 years. …

Gunmen have killed four people at Nzomiwu Street in Eziani community in Ihiala Local Government Area of Anambra State, Nigeria, according to reports. The gunmen invaded the community, started shooting in the air and killed three men and a woman, who was apparently pregnant. “The gunmen immediately fled the scene …

Zimbabwe on Tuesday signed a bill into law that outlawed organized protests by healthcare workers who could now face a fine or an imprisonment of up to six months, Reuters agency reported. The signing by President Emmerson Mnangagwa comes after health workers were locked in a protracted fight with the …

A 10-year-old girl was electrocuted and a 6-year-old girl was injured after an Electricity Company of Ghana (ECG) cable fell on them in the Gomoa East District of Ghana’s Central Region. “The children were playing under cable when the unfortunate incident happened,” according to family. “I heard the children shouting …