West Africa

Police in the town of Ondo in Nigeria arrested a 54-year-old man for setting fire to five of his stepchildren when his wife refused him s3x, News agency of Nigeria reported. The police spokesperson in the state, Funmilayo Odunlami, who explained the incident, said the suspect was being investigated, while …

Faced with the galloping inflation in Ghana, currently estimated at 37%, hundreds of Ghanaians took to the streets of Accra on Saturday 5 November to denounce the deteriorating economic situation, French media RFI reported. “Resign or be impeached! Politicians eat, Ghanaians suffer!” : the slogans chanted by the crowd were …

Mankessim Divisional Police Command in Ghana announced the arrest of a 50-year-old woman for stealing a baby girl, Adomonline reported. The woman forced the two-year-old girl into a margarine rubber after she intentionally went there to play with the kid. “She intentionally went there to play with the kid when …

A 12-year-old boy was reportedly shot dead by his uncle on a farm and secretly buried the same day under cover of darkness in Mankuma, Savannah Region, Ghana. The mother of the deceased left him under the care of his uncle who later picked him on a motorcycle to the farm with a …

A German court has fined German defender of Olympique Lyonnais Jerome Boateng 1.2 million euros for assaulting his ex-girlfriend. The former international and World Cup winner was found guilty of assault, battery, and insult at his appeal trial in Munich. He had initially been fined €1.8 million at his first …

Nigerian police announced the arrest of seven men for assaulting and torturing a 40-year-old woman in the south-eastern state of Enugu. “The men raided the woman’s home after accusing her of entering a “sacred forest” to hunt and harvest snails,” a legal aid campaigner told police in a complaint. At …

General elections are scheduled for November 20 in Equatorial Guinea and President Teodoro Obiang Nguema Mbasogo launched his candidacy for a sixth term on Thursday. Mr Obiang, 80, ruled the West African country for 43 years. He seized power in 1979 from President Francisco Macias Nguema, who was the leader …

A 23-year-old mother, resident of Nkroful in the Sekondi-Takoradi Metropolis, attempted to kill her two children and herself, arguing that she was fed up with life. The woman locked herself and her two children in her room and decided to kill the children and herself later. She covered her six …

An investigation is underway to establish the cause of a fire that engulfed the girls’ dormitory at Sawla High School (SHS) in Savannah Region, Ghana. The timely intervention of the Sawla Fire Command prevented the fire which could have ruined the entire dormitory from wreaking more havoc. The tactical firefighters …

Three men were arrested by the National Agency for Prohibition of Trafficking in Persons, in collaboration with vigilantes, for raping a 13-year-old girl over father’s sin in Nigeria’s Anambra state. Four suspects are involved in the incident. While three of them were arrested, the fourth escaped when security guards invaded …