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Sudan’s warring factions agreed to a 72-hour ceasefire starting on Tuesday, while Western, Arab and Asian nations raced to extract their citizens from the country, Reuters reported. The Sudan Armed Forces (SAF) said the U.S. and Saudi Arabia mediated the truce. U.S. Secretary of State Anthony Blinken announced the agreement …

Three men have been arrested in South Africa for stealing a long Nile crocodile worth about $1,300 from a farm in the North West province, reports said. The men are believed to have used a pick-up truck to take the animal from a crocodile farm in the Hartbeesfontein area about …

A 50-year-old man has reported himself to the Suhum Police Station for shooting a staff of Qnet for picking his mangoes at Kwasi Larbi in the Eastern Region, Ghana. The suspect who has been wild in the area and has been accused of chasing children for picking his mangoes from his …

A farm laborer has butchered his farm owner in a bush at Mawaninnha in the Atwima Mponua District of the Ashanti Region, Ghana. The 53-year-old woman farmer and a trader hired the laborer to take care of her cocoa farm in the area. “The suspect hit the owner of the …

Algerian President Abdelmadjid Tebboune will travel to France next June as part of a state visit, the Algerian presidency announced on Sunday, after a telephone conversation between the two heads of state. During this meeting, the two presidents “discussed bilateral relations and the means of strengthening them, including the state …

A 36-year-old lawyer was arrested for killing her husband, a 41-year-old attorney, after he discovered that their servant was his wife’s biological son in Ghana. “The late Barrister did not know that the boy who has been living with him in his house for years, was his wife’s son,” according …

Twenty-six new bodies were exhumed in eastern Kenya on Sunday, bringing to 47 the number of remains discovered since Friday by police. “It comes after an investigation into the deaths of followers of a cult whose leader is said to have been told to fast for meet Jesus,” police said. …

More than 1,000 European Union citizens were evacuated from Sudan over the weekend amid the deadly fighting between rival army factions, the EU’s foreign policy chief Josep Borrell has said. Mr Borell told journalists that it had been a complex operation but had been successful – adding that the EU …

Suspected cultists have killed a 24-year-old man in Igode, Ogijo, the Sagamu Local Government Area of Ogun State, Nigeria, reports said. “The deceased, a native of Benue State, was shot dead at about 8 p.m.“ “The deceased was outside their house at Fakile in the Igode community, when the assailants …

South Korean K-pop star Moonbin, a member of the band Astro, died on Wednesday at the age of 25, according to his label Fantagio and national police, sparking a wave of emotion among his fans. The singer was found dead at his home in southern Seoul late on Wednesday, a …