West Africa

An Adentan Circuit Court has sentenced a 31-year-old man to 20 years imprisonment with hard labour for defiling a one-year, seven-month-old baby in Ghana. “The victim went to play in the convict’s room and on her return, her diaper was soaked with blood,” reports said. The victim’s mother went to …

Police in Assin-Praso have intensified the search for a teenage father who allegedly poisoned his 10-day-old baby with a weed killer in the Assin North district of Ghana’s Central Region. “The move was to kill the baby, who had become a burden of a sort to the suspect and the …

Liberia’s electorate is expected to announce the final results of the presidential election after declaring it has completed counting of ballots across the country. Voting was repeated last week in two polling stations in north-eastern Nimba county. This is after ballots were tampered with by unknown people during the first …

Police in the Ashanti Region have arrested the chief of New Akrofuom for attempting to sodomise a 17-year-old boy in the Adansi Asokwa district, Ghana. “The chief entered the teenager’s room with the intention of engaging in the act with him, but the boy alerted some residents,” reports said. “The …

Nearly 200 French soldiers have left Niger’s south-western Ouallam town amid ongoing withdrawals from the Sahel nation, state-owned Tele Sahel TV station reports. It said that 193 French soldiers based in Ouallam left their camp for Chad on Sunday. The troops reportedly left with 28 lorries as well as 24 …

A butchered body of a 45-year-old man was found on a farm in Abrokro, a suburb of Agona Nyakrom in Ghana’s Central Region. “The deceased was found with cutlass wound behindhis neck and on his head,” reports said. “The deceased told a co-tenants last Wednesday that he would be travelling …

The governor of Nigeria’s central Kogi state, Yahaya Bello, has denied he was the target of an assassination attempt along the busy Lokoja-Abuja highway. His spokesperson Kingsley Fanwo had earlier been quoted by local media saying that gunmen “dressed in military uniforms” attacked Mr Bello’s convoy on Sunday. Mr Fanwo …

Women alleged to be sex workers were sentenced to 17 years in prison in hard labour, for trafficking four girls and forcing them into sex trade in the Wassa Amenfi East Municipality, Ghana. The 30 year-old was handed 10 years for trafficking three of the victims, and thhe 28 year-old …

A 57-year-old woman her son have been arrested over the death of a 56-year-old farmer at Akyem Manso in the Eastern Region, Ghana. “The woman and the deceased had a misunderstanding that turned into a dispute between the two,” reports said. The two suspects brutally assaulted the deceased with clubs …

A 42-year-old man has been arrested for allegedly defiling his 13-year-old female house help in Obio Local Government Area of the state, Nigeria. “The man is married with three children and the girl has been staying with them. He is a rig worker and not usually around. He comes on …