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Four people have died and three others are wounded after being struck by lightning in Mozambique, which is now bracing for Storm Filipo, local media reported. The lightning strikes happened in the northern town of Mogincual, in Nampula province. Meanwhile, the southern and central provinces of Gaza, Inhambane, Sofala and …

UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres called for “silencing the guns” in Gaza and releasing the hostages held there since the start of the war on October 7, “to honor the spirit of Ramadan”. As the Muslim world enters the holy month of fasting, many residents of the Palestinian territory were awakened …

Film star Idris Elba, who is leading the construction of a smart city in Sierra Leone, says he took on the project to change the stereotypical perception of Africa. Elba is building the eco-city on the rural Sherbro Island off the coast of West Africa along with Siaka Stevens, a …

At least 78 people had to be hospitalized and 9 others died in the Tanzanian archipelago of Zanzibar after eating sea turtle meat. Eight of the deceased are children. Eating sea turtle flesh can cause chelonitoxism, a rare but potentially fatal food poisoning. No antidote is known to counter intoxication. …

Ugandan authorities have reportedly halted the recent ban on meat sales in the capital, Kampala, amid an outbreak of foot-and-mouth disease. Health officials had last week imposed the ban and ordered the closure of all slaughter places to curb the spread of the outbreak. But Minister for Kampala City and …

A US-based Ghanaian woman was pushed to death by her boyfriend in Chicago, Illinois in the United States. “The victim aged 29 was pushed into the path of a moving vehicle on a highway,” according to reports. The unfortunate incident occurred on February 23, 2024, when a heated argument ensued …

Ghana’s main opposition party National Democratic Congress (NDC) has selected a former education minister as the running mate for its presidential candidate John Mahama in December polls. Prof Jane Naana Opoku-Agyemang, 72, was Ghana’s education minister between 2013 and 2017. She is also the first female vice-chancellor of a public …

An 80-year-old man has committed suicide at the Watch Tower in the Araromi Imota rea of Lagos State, Nigeria, according to reports. “The deceased hung himself with a rope in the kitchen,” according a tenant. “The lifeless body of the tenant hanging on a rope that was tied to the …

American elected officials announced this Thursday, March 7, their desire to pass a law in the coming days to ban the Chinese social network TikTok, unless the platform cuts its ties with its parent company, ByteDance and more broadly with China. A commission bringing together ten Republicans and ten Democrats …

More than 280 schoolchildren have been abducted by dozens of armed men in the town of Kuriga in northwest Nigeria, according to reports. “The pupils were in the assembly ground when dozens of gunmen on motorcycles rode through the school,” according to a witness said. “The students, between the ages …