Gunmen opened fire on a group of people celebrating a birthday in a township in South Africa on Sunday, killing eight and injuring three, police said Monday. “The owner of the house was celebrating his birthday when two unknown persons, armed, entered the property on Sunday evening in the port …
Read More »Kenya: wildlife body defends lion vasectomy
Kenya’s Wild Service (KWS) over the weekend explained why a captive lion had to undergo vasectomy earlier in the week, local media reported. KWS had initially said the procedure was meant to control the lion’s breeding, but Kenyans questioned why it could not instead be released into the wild amid …
Read More »Nigeria: man sentenced to death for murder
A man has been sentenced to death by hanging for killing four persons and using their intestines for peppered soup meal in Okwalie community, Khana Local Government Area of the State, Nigeria. The four men were killed after they were kidnapped and taken to an undisclosed location. The convict was …
Read More »Woman arrested for registering as a student in high school
A 29-year-old woman has been arrested in New Jersey for using a fake identification document to enroll in New Brunswick High School. “The suspect had taken some classes and spent time with guidance counselors, who tried to find out more information about her,” according to the School District Superintendent Aubrey …
Read More »New pharaonic tombs and 4,000-year-old mummy found in Egypt
Egypt on Thursday unveiled four tombs of pharaonic dignitaries and a more than 4,000-year-old mummy at Saqqara near Cairo, the latest of discoveries announced with great fanfare by a country keen to bring tourists back. It was in the necropolis of Saqqara, known for the famous step pyramid of Pharaoh …
Read More »US President Joe Biden to start fundraising as he plans to run in 2024
US President Joe Biden, who plans to run for a second term, will meet wealthy Democratic Party supporters at two fundraising events next week. The octogenarian leader will be in New York next Tuesday, then in Philadelphia on Friday, meeting wealthy supporters to fill his party’s coffers. Joe Biden has …
Read More »Haiti: six police officers killed in gang attack
Six police officers died in the north of Haiti during the attack on a police station by gang members, authorities said, a new act of violence at the origin of demonstrations this Thursday in Port-au-Prince . “Bandits attacked three times a police sub-station in Liancourt, a locality in the north …
Read More »Unknown assailants butchered man to death
Unknown assailants have butchered young man aged 30 at Krofrom in the Ashanti Region, Ghana, according to reports. “Residents suspected a revenge attack by the assailants a year after the deceased harmed their colleague,” according to Nhyira News. “The deceased died after receiving multiple cutlass wounds from the assailants,” according …
Read More »Daesh leader killed in American raid in Somalia
A leader of the Daesh group, identified as Bilal al-Sudani, and “about ten people” linked to the terrorist organization were killed on Wednesday in a US raid in Somalia, the US executive said on Thursday. “Al-Sudani was responsible for encouraging the Islamic State group’s growing presence in Africa and funding …
Read More »89-year-old man burned for witchcraft
Police in Benue State have arrested the leader of a nine-man gang that tortured an 89-year-old man in Gwer East Local Government Area of Nigeria. “The 89- year-old man was abducted by a nine-man gang for alleged witchcraft against a young man who had been sick in the area as …
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