Africa

Cameroonian lawyers launched a three-day strike on Wednesday to protest against police violence targeting their profession, according to reports. The protest was instigated by the Cameroon Bar Council, which issued a statement denouncing the physical violence, barbarism and other humiliating treatment to which lawyers are recurrently subjected by the forces …

Togo’s Head of State, Faure Gnassingbé, appointed 20 senators to the country’s new Senate on Wednesday evening. This appointment completes the election of 41 senators on February 15, 2025, which was boycotted by part of the Togolese opposition. Togo’s Senate is expected to have 61 members, a third of whom …

A man was arrested in possession of two human skulls and three locally-made firearms in the community of Okoffia, Ezza South Local Government Area, Nigeria. The suspect was arrested by the police in Ebonyi State. According to the police spokesperson, the suspect confessed that the human skulls were given to …

Eleven (11) Niger soldiers were killed in an ambush near the Algerian border on February 28, 2025, according to reports. “The Chief of Staff of the Nigerien armed forces, Brigadier General Salaou Barmou, accompanied by the Chief of Staff of the army, Colonel Major Maman Sani Kiaou, came to Agadez …

On Saturday March 1, hundreds of South Africans paid tribute to Muhsin Hendricks, the first openly gay imam murdered two weeks ago in Cape Town. On the occasion of the Pride March, the LGBTQIA+ community called for justice for the imam, who was shot dead in his car. The LGBTQIA+ …

The Ghana National Fire Service (GNFS) has retrieved a nearly decomposed body of a young woman from a septic tank at Sunyani Magazine in the Bono Region, Ghana. The body was retrieved on Friday, February 28, 2025, after a distress call was received at 5:30 pm. The Sunyani Municipal Fire …

A 29-year-old woman and her daughter, believed to be over two years old, have been found dead under mysterious circumstances at Akrokere in the Adansi North District of the Ashanti Region, Ghana. The woman’s lifeless body was discovered separately from her daughter’s, about 20 meters apart. Upon inspection, multiple signs …

A 43-year-old woman has been arrested for biting a customer’s testicules during a violent altercation in Assin Wurakese Camp, located in the Assin Fosu Municipality of the Central Region, Ghana. “The incident resulted in the 36-year-old farmer being hospitalized with serious injuries,” according to reports. According to the victm, the …

Since the end of January, conflicts in the east of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) have claimed more than 8,500 lives in Goma, a city under threat from the March 23 Movement (M23) rebellion, which claims control of the area, the Congolese government announced on Thursday evening. According to …

Nigeria’s National Commission for Museums and Monuments (NCMM) will take charge of retrieving and preserving the Benin Bronzes, with the approval of the Oba of Benin, the rightful owner of the artefacts. The bronzes, looted by British soldiers in 1897 from the former Kingdom of Benin, remain largely in European …