Africa

A 17-year-old student was fatally stabbed while trying to break up a fight between two lovers in the Atwima Kwanwoma district of Ghana’s Ashanti region. The victim was resting in his room on the night when he was awakened by a heated argument between a couple in the same house. …

In Tunisia, the lack of water is a major development problem, and access to this essential element is becoming a chore. According to the Tunisian Ministry of Agriculture, Water Resources and Fisheries, global warming is causing water to evaporate. Despite the presence of numerous dams to conserve water, the situation …

Rwanda’s provisional election results declare current President Paul Kagame the winner of the presidential elections, with most votes counted. President Kagame is on course to extend his 24-year rule by another five years in a landslide victory. He has 99.15% of the vote so far, with about 79% of ballots …

A man suspected of being a serial killer has been arrested in Kenya following the discovery of several bodies in a quarry in Nairobi, police said Monday. Collins Jumaisi, a 33-year-old man living near the quarry in Mukuru neighbourhood in the south of the capital, was arrested early on Monday. …

Assailants have killed a maize farmer at his farm in the Odomosibi area of Ijebu-Igbo, Ogun State, Nigeria, according to reports. The victim’s family grew worried when the victim did not return from his farm after leaving early morning. The search party was shocked to find his lifeless body on …

At least 22 children have died and 132 others have been injured after a school building collapsed in Nigeria’s central Plateau state, local officials say. Saint Academy in the state capital Jos caved in while students were in class on Friday morning. Children were left trapped under the debris. Volunteers …

Child vaccination rates around the world are stagnating and have still not returned to their pre-Covid-19 pandemic levels, the UN warned on Monday July 15. “Compared to the level of 2019, before the pandemic, 2.7 million more children were still not vaccinated, or incompletely, in 2023,” said the United Nations …

At least five people were killed and 20 others injured when a car bomb exploded outside a restaurant in the Somali capital Mogadishu on Sunday evening. “It comes as they were watching the final of the Euro 2024 football tournament on TV,” police said, blaming Islamist insurgents. The bomb destroyed …

Kenya’s police chief Japhet Koome has resigned, following weeks of violent protests against proposed tax hikes in which at least 40 people died. Human rights groups have accused police of shooting dozens of protestors, some of them fatally, and abducting or arbitrarily arresting hundreds more. The resignation comes a day …

In Niger, a large number of prisoners managed to escape with weapons from the Koutoukalé high-security prison on Thursday, July 11. According to reports, more than 200 terrorists are locked up in this prison, located a stone’s throw from the capital Niamey. In the meantime, Nigerien security forces have set …