South Africa’s financial watchdog has classified cryptocurrency assets as financial products, a notice in the government gazette said on Wednesday, enabling them to be regulated., Reuters reported In the brief notice, the Financial Sector Conduct Authority (FSCA) said a crypto asset, which it referred to as “a digital representation of …
Read More »Kenyan authorities on high alert over cholera outbreak
Kenya has reported an outbreak of cholera in six out of 47 counties after recording 61 cases of the diarrhoeal disease. Thirteen people were admitted to hospitals and eight others had already been discharged while 40 were being treated as outpatients, the health ministry said. The ministry says drought in …
Read More »South Africa: 16-month-old baby killed in giraffe attack
A giraffe killed a 16-month-old toddler at a game park in South Africa in a rare attack by the animal, local media reported. The toddler and her 25-year-old mother were in the park in northern KwaZulu-Natal when they were both trampled by the giraffe. The child died after being taken …
Read More »Zimbabwe: woman mysteriously lost voice in court
A woman is reported to have mysteriously lost her voice just moments before she was supposed to testify at a High Court in Zimbabwe. Words failed this distraught woman when it came to testifying at the trial against her daughter’s alleged rapist, she could only sob and gesture as she …
Read More »Madagascar: minister sacked for voting against Russia
Madagascar’s president has sacked his foreign minister, Richard Randriamandrato, for voting at the United Nations to condemn Russia’s annexation of four partially occupied regions of Ukraine, Reuters reported, citing two sources in the president’s office. Last Wednesday, the United Nations General Assembly voted overwhelmingly to condemn what it called Russia’s …
Read More »Ghana: student on the verge of losing sight after being whipped
A 21-year-old student of Assin Manso Senior High School, Ghana is on the verge of losing her sight as she also suffers a stroke after allegedly being whipped by her teacher. Her condition is deteriorating as her vision is blurred with her mobility also affected due to the incident, according …
Read More »Nigeria: 37-year old man in court for stealing Bibles
A 37-year-old sales representative has been charged in a magistrate’s court with allegedly stealing four Bibles from a supermarket in Nigeria. The prosecutor, Inspector Felicia Okwori said the defendant was at the supermarket in December and stole two bibles, an operation that was captured on CCTV. “The defendant came again …
Read More »Haiti: suspected cholera cases continue to rise
The number of cholera contaminations continues to increase in Haiti, according to a new bulletin from the Ministry of Public Health obtained on Tuesday. The new figures fuel fears of a new disaster in this country already plunged into a humanitarian and security crisis. As of Monday, 606 suspected and …
Read More »Outrage over attack on Nigerian students in India
A fight between Nigerian and Indian students at GD Goenka University in the capital, New Delhi, sparked by a football match last weekend has caused panic in Nigeria. The incident forced more than 60 Nigerians to flee and take refuge at the country’s embassy. The chairwoman of the Nigerians in …
Read More »Four-year-old baby abandoned by parents in the forest
Police Command in Ellembelle, Ghana, arrested a midwife and her husband, a trained teacher, for abandoning their four-year-old child in a forest ostensibly to die. The couple handed over the baby to a fetish priest after they suspected she was an evil child, according to the assembly member for the …
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