Africa

Three pupils of the Akure High School were arrested for gang-raping a female colleague in a bush on the premises of the school in Akure, the Ondo State capital, Nigeria. The victim went into the bush to defecate during break period and on her way back, the three pupils accosted …

A 29-year-old man has been arrested in the Nigerian state of Bauchi for stabbing to death a friend who failed to buy him beer at a bar. A discreet investigation conducted by the detectives attached to the command revealed that the suspect went to a beer parlor where he met …

Police in Nigeria’s Bauchi State arrested a 20-year-old housewife for killing her co-wife by using a pestle to hit her on the head, leading to her death. The incident was reported by the suspect’s husband. He said his second wife armed with a pestle entered his first wife room and …

Civil society groups in Kenya are complaining about a chronic shortage of free condoms across the country. The life-saving products are usually imported and distributed for free but due to high taxes suppliers are no longer providing Kenya with free condoms. The activists want the government to remove taxes on …

A man has died after hanging himself from the flyover near the NNPC gas station on the Sanni Abacha highway in Yenagoa, the capital of Bayelsa State, Nigeria. The victim’s corpse was found by passers-by dangling on the rail of the flyover. While some residents believed that the deceased was …

More than 20 people have drowned in rivers and dams across South Africa’s northern Limpopo province in less than two months amid persistent rains, the police have said. The police said they were attending to “numerous calls” of drowning cases in all the five districts of the province. “From the …

Nigeria’s Ogun State Police Command has arrested a 36-year-old man suspected homosexual for raping a five-year-old boy to death. Upon the report, the DPO Ogijo division, CSP Enatufe Omoh, quickly detailed his detectives to the scene where the suspect was promptly arrested. The suspect confessed being an homosexual and that while …

Nigeria’s Ogun State Police Command announced the arrest of a woman and a 19-year-old boy, for robbing traders with toy guns. The suspects were arrested during an operation at Adesan, Mowe, in the Obafemi-Owode Local Government Area of the state. It was discovered that they came to rob the shop …

Presidential elections in the Democratic Republic of Congo will be held on 20 December next year, the electoral commission has announced. Currently, insecurity is plaguing the east of the country with numerous rebel groups creating instability. The AFP news agency reports that the head of the electoral commission acknowledged that …

The Brics had chosen the Central African Republic’s capital Bangui to host their future headquarters, after a delegation from the Brics alliance visited Bangui for several days. The President of this organization of five major emerging economies (Brazil, Russia, China, India, South Africa) has exceptionally awarded “the medal of strategic …