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A military officer of 48 Engineering Regiment, is in the grips of Kasoa Divisional Police Command for allegedly brutalizing a civilian in Ghana, reports said. “The victim was accused of demolishing the suspect father’s building construction,” information said. The suspect mobilized some persons to attack the victim in his home. …

A sex worker was found dead when cleaners swept her room in a hotel in Onitsha, Anambra State, Nigeria, according to reports. The victim was suspected to be murdered or had committed suicide. The positioning of the body suggested that she was strangled. A colleague of the deceased said she …

Chinese Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Mao Ning on Monday accused the United States of “triggering the crisis in Ukraine” and “being the main factor fueling it” by supplying heavy weapons in Kyiv, Bloomberg reported. On January 24, the American administration had accused Chinese public companies of assisting Russia militarily and economically, …

A group of soldiers have shot dead a 25-year-old man, assaulted two others at Agbozo Junction near Hobor in the Ga South Municipality of the Greater Accra Region, Ghana, according to reports. The soldiers were in the community protecting a vast land belonging to a company. “Some residents were grading …

US President Joe Biden announced to Congress on Monday that he would end the state of health emergency linked to Covid-19 in the United States, the Associated Press reported The virus, which has killed more than a million people in America, will therefore settle into normality from May 11. Read …

Former Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro, who is under investigation for his role in the violent attack on the headquarters of national institutions in Brasilia on January 8, has applied for a six-month visa to stay in the States States, his lawyer said Monday. The far-right former president had left Brazil …

The lifeless body of a young woman, stabbed with multiple stab wounds, was found in a vehicle parked in Ingolstadt, southern Germany, on August 17. As reported by The Guardian, local authorities initially identified the body as that of Sharaban, a 23-year-old beautician from Munich of Iraqi origin. Only, and …

The military in the Democratic Republic of Congo says it has expelled Rwandan soldiers attached to the command of the East African Community Regional Force based in the eastern town of Goma. Congolese military said the Rwandan soldiers were expelled from the force “for security reasons” and “have already left …

The World Health Organization (WHO) confirmed on Monday that the Covid-19 pandemic remains a public health emergency of international concern as it first did on January 30, 2020. The world then had fewer than 100 cases and no deaths outside of China. The WHO on Friday identified more than 752 …

Four deaths and 116 confirmed cases of the Monkeypox disease in 2022, in 14 out of the 16 regions recorded in Ghana, according to reports. “Monkeypox could affect anyone despite the age, disclosing that a 13-day-old baby got infected and died,” according to Dr Abudulai. However, more than half of …