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Britain and South Africa on Wednesday announced a new health and science partnership to mark the second day of President Cyril Ramaphosa’s state visit to London. On Wednesday, Britain announced a new set of research collaborations as Ramaphosa toured the Crick Institute, the biggest biomedical research facility in Europe, and …

Prison authorities in South Africa have said they will challenge the Supreme Court of Appeal’s decision to return former President Jacob Zuma to prison. “Having carefully studied the judgement, Correctional Services is convinced that another court may arrive at a different conclusion,” the Department of Correctional Services (DCS) said in …

A hotel manager in Nigeria’s Bayelsa state discovered the lifeless body of a 16-year-old girl in a wardrobe, local media reported. “I smelled a foul odor in one of the hotel rooms. During a search, I discovered a lifeless female corpse hidden in a wardrobe,” the manager said. The corpse …

Operatives of Kenya’s Directorate of Criminal Investigations (DCI) arrested an 18-year-old male student for pretending to be a female student at the girl’s school to meet his girlfriend The suspect, a student of Gatugi Day secondary school in Nyeri, joined a group of girls as they headed to their dormitories. He was unmasked by …

Kenyan police are actively searching for a man suspected of having had anal sex with another drunk man after locking him in his house for more than 10 hours. According to the Kenyan Directorate of Criminal Investigations (DCI), the man who was making merry with his kinsmen imbibing fermented frothy …

New York State has banned for a period of two years part of the “mining” activities of cryptocurrencies, the creation of virtual currencies considered too greedy in energy. This is the first US state to suspend all or part of these activities. A very energy-intensive mining activity Democratic Governor Kathy …

King Charles III of England received South African President Cyril Ramaphosa at Buckingham Palace in London on Tuesday 22 November. He was accompanied by his wife for the first visit of a head of state under the era of Charles III at the invitation of the new British sovereign. This …

A woman was found dead with an empty bottle of insecticide found beside her corpse and her child in the bush along Suuka Airport road, in the Federal Capital Territory, in Nigeria. The victim’s corpse was found when passers-by heard her baby crying in the bush. The corpse has been …

At least 54 people, including women and children, died and several others were wounded in two separate road accidents in Nigeria on Tuesday, authorities said. In one of the crashes, at least 37 people died after two buses collided head-on and burst into flames on a highway between the north-eastern …

Ghanaian police arrest a man who attempted suicide after beating his wife to death during a misunderstanding. A neighbor also said he beat his wife until she collapsed and lost consciousness. Suspecting she could be dead, the suspect is said to have taken a poisonous substance believed to be weedicide …