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A 45-year-old man has been arrested for chaining and locking his two children in solitary confinement which led to their death in Ibiade, Ogun Waterside Local Government Area of Ogun State, Nigeria. “The suspect, father of three accused his children of stealing,” reports said. “He chained and locked the children …

A community in the Kassena Nankana Municipality in the Upper East Region, was thrown into a state of mourning when two siblings and their friend got drowned in the White Volta River, Ghana. The deceased, all teenagers, were among eight others who had gone to the river to wash mango …

Forty-eight million people in West and Central Africa will face acute food insecurity in the coming months, a 10-year peak spurred by insecurity, climate shocks, COVID-19 and prices high, United Nations humanitarian agencies warned on Tuesday. West and Central Africa has faced increasing risks caused by higher temperatures and erratic …

Prosecutors in Switzerland have charged a former Gambian interior minister with crimes against humanity and other offences. They accuse Ousman Sonko of involvement in and failure to prevent systematic attacks on opponents of the former president, Yahya Jammeh. Mr Sonko held several senior posts in the authoritarian administration of Mr …

Authorities in Japan are planning to send a military aircraft to evacuate the country’s citizens from Sudan amid the deadly fighting. Japanese government spokesman Hirokazu Matsuno said that as of Wednesday, there were 60 Japanese nationals stuck in Sudan. He said the government would do “its utmost to ensure the …

A fire at a hospital in the Fengtai district of Beijing has killed 21 people, the official newspaper of the Chinese capital’s Communist Party, the Beijing Daily, reported on Tuesday. The alert of a fire starting at Changfeng Hospital was given shortly before 1 a.m. and the disaster could be …

A 33-year-old woman has sold her 18-month-old baby for N600,000 to offset her bank loan in Sango in Ado-Odo Ota Local Government Area of Ogun State, Nigeria, according to reports. “She borrowed money from a microfinance bank and was unable to pay back the money,” reports said. “The bank agents …

A 24-year-old American teacher has been indicted on four counts after being heard in a video, organizing fights between her students. The scene, filmed discreetly under a school desk, is surreal. It shows a substitute teacher, officiating in an American college, explain to her students the rules to follow for …

A 30-year-old man from Sabuwar Santa in Musawa Local Government Area of Katsina State has been arrested after allegedly abducting and burying a three-year-old boy alive in Nigeria. “The suspect was have buried the abducted boy alive despite collecting N150,000 out of the N800,000 ransom he demanded from his father,” …

A British man from Bournemouth has been jailed for 10 years in Morocco for possessing and distributing counterfeit money while on holiday in Marrakech with his friend. The 29-year-old and his friend went to a nightclub on the last night of their holiday and were arrested by the Moroccan police …