West Africa

Thieves attacked the Divine Grace Missions Outreach Ministry International at Kusa near Fomena in the northern Adansi district of the Ashanti region of Ghana and stole musical instruments, Adomonline reported. The suspects made away with musical instruments worth over GHC 20,000.00. General overseer of the church, Bishop Sylvester Addai, is …

Gunmen in Nigeria on Wednesday released two actors they kidnapped while returning from a movie set in south-eastern of the country, the Actors Guild of Nigeria said. The pair, Cynthia Okereke and Clemson Cornel, were abducted last Friday in Ozalla town, Enugu state. They were released unhurt after their abductors …

Nigeria’s government says it approved the purchase of vehicles worth over 1.4 billion naira ($3m; £2.4m) for its northern neighbour, Niger, to help improve security. It comes as Nigeria continues to struggle with rising insecurity as armed gangs step up attacks on communities and major roads, including kidnapping. Finance Minister …

Police in Gomoa Nyanyano in the Central Region, Ghana arrested a 37-year-old evangelist for allegedly sodomizing a 15-year-old boy, local media reported. According to a report on Onua FM, the victim has been continually sodomized by the evangelist for about two years. Reports said the suspect sought permission from the …

Ghanaian President Nana Akufo-Addo recalled the harmful effects of the slave trade for the African continent and demanded an apology from Europe for Africans. The tenant of the Jubile House said slavery stifled the economic, cultural and psychological progress of Africa. According to the President, when the British ended slavery, …

Police in the central Nigerian state of Nassarawa announced the arrest of six people on suspicion of operating a fraudulent dating site for same-sex couples, the BBC reported. The suspects, four men and two women are said to have used the site to woo their victims before robbing them. The …

A young mum in Nigeria sold her six-week-old baby to an orphanage for 200,000 naira for an unbelievable reason, sparking outrage in the country, local media have reported. According to local press, the 23-year-old mother used some of the money to buy a cell phone. Later arrested by Edo State …

Health authorities in Ghana have confirmed the first-ever death from monkeypox, as the virus wreaks havoc in the West African country. The infected person was a military officer who died three days after going to hospital in north-eastern Ghana. Thirteen people believed to have been in contact with the deceased …

A combined team of Ghanaian Police and Accra Metropolitan Assembly (AMA) Task Force demolished the Apostolic Movers and Shakers Chapel building in Dansoman on Monday for operating without a permit, Pulse news agency reported. This follows an earlier warning by the AMA to the Church to vacate the area in …

A 39-year-old Nigerian street vendor, Alika Ogorchukwu, was shot dead in broad daylight on a shopping street in the Italian seaside town of Civitanova, RFI reported. His attacker, a 32-year-old Italian, was filmed by passers-by for four long minutes, without anyone intervening to help the seller. On the images, we …