Africa

Nigeria’s Economic and Financial Crimes Commission says a federal high court has ordered the final seizure of properties owned by former petroleum resources minister Diezani Alison-Madueke. This is the latest court ruling related to corruption allegations against her – charges she denies. Ms Alison-Madueke served as Nigeria’s petroleum minister between …

Ugandan police say at least 11 people, among them students, were killed and six others are in a critical condition after a dormitory caught fire at a school for visually impaired children in Mukono, east of the capital, Kampala. The injured are being treated at Herona Hospital, police said. Investigations …

A family with 5 children has no choice but to sleep in a bush poultry structure in bad weather due to unpaid rent in Breman Asikuma, Ghana, Adom News reported. The landlord, who could no longer grant the couple the continued deferral of rent payment, evicted the family from their …

Congregants of the Living Faith Church in Nigeria are in a state of bewilderment after their resident pastor, 68, collapsed and died after a morning prayer program held at the church premises. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the Church’s Associate Pastor, Edwin Okolo, confirmed the death in …

A 27-year-old man beat his girlfriend to death with a pestle at Dodo Amanfrom in Kadjebi Akan district of Ghana’s Oti region, AdomNews reported. The 24-year-old victim was found in her own pool of blood on her boyfriend’s bedroom bed as her mouth was swollen with blood everywhere. The suspect …

Zambian police arrested a 19-year-old woman accused of faking her own kidnapping as she told her uncle she was abducted by unidentified men on her way to church, local media reported. Zambia police spokesperson Rae Hamoonga says the woman left home under the pretext that she was going to church, …

At least nine people were killed and 47 injured in an attack carried out on Sunday for more than six hours by radical Al-Shabab Islamists in a hotel in the city of Kismayo, in southern Somalia. This large port city is the latest hit by the resurgence of violent actions …

Rwandan First Lady, Mrs. Jeannette Kagame has declared positive words on her husband, Paul Kagame on the occasion of his birthday. President Kagame celebrated his 65th birthday on October 23. On this occasion, his wife Jeannette took to Twitter to celebrate the one she described as “a wonderful leader, father, …

Ugandan health authorities announced that nine more people have tested positive for the Ebola virus at the country’s national referral hospital, Mulago, in the capital Kampala. This brings the number of positive cases at the facility’s isolation unit to 14. Health Minister Dr Jane Ruth Aceng said the positive cases …

Eighteen people, including two policemen, were killed in a violence clash between nomadic herdsmen and farmers in Nigeria’s Benue state. The violence broke out as herders stormed the farming village of Gbeji in Ukum district, firing indiscriminately, said Paul Hemba, security adviser to the Benue state governor. Mr Hemba said …