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A mentally unstable man stabbed a worshipper with a cutlass as he was being taken for deliverance in Obosi, Idemili North Local Government Area of Anambra State, Nigeria. “The suspect was brought to church for deliverance session while he picked up a cutlass from the altar and matcheted the victim,” …

The convoy of the wife of the Vice President of Ghana, Samira Bawumia has been involved in an accident on Saturday January 13, 2024 while travelling to the Ashanti region. “A sprinter bus run into two vehicles in Mrs. Bawumia’s convoy,” according to reports. The wife of the Vice President, …

The Kasoa Tollbooth Police have arrested a young man for allegedly stealing a 2-year-old baby girl from a community in Ghana’s Greater Accra region. “The suspect was with the little in a vehicle before the arrest,” according to reports. “The small girl started crying from kaneshie to Mallam Juction then …

Zambian authorities have ordered churches to limit the duration of worship to two hours as part of measures to curb the spread of the cholera epidemic wreaking havoc in the country. No sale of perishable and ready-to-eat foods in all churches, Ndiwa Mutelo, a senior official in charge of religious …

Ugandan authorities have arrested Kenya’s former Assistant Minister for Internal Security Stephen Tarus on allegations of smuggling gold into the country using forged documents. Mr Tarus was arrested last week and arraigned before a Ugandan anti-corruption court on Wednesday for falsification of export documents, the Uganda Revenue Authority (URA) said. …

A military tribunal in the Democratic Republic of Congo has sentenced 15 people to prison after finding them guilty of financing terrorism through illegal gold trade. The tribunal on Thursday jailed 10 suspects for terms ranging between five and eight years and handed five others 10-year terms. The court also …

China’s foreign minister Wang Yi will travel to Africa and visit Egypt, Tunisia, Togo and Cote d’Ivoire from Jan. 13-18, China’s foreign ministry said on Thursday. The visit will mark the 34th consecutive year in which the foreign minister has gone to Africa for their first overseas trip of the …

The Somali government said it was working to rescue passengers from a UN helicopter captured by Al Shabaab militants, local media reported. The U.N.-contracted helicopter was conducting an air medical evacuation when a technical problem forced it to make an emergency landing near Hindhere village in central Somalia, an area …

Zambia expects to receive one million cholera vaccine doses from the World Health Organisation amid an outbreak that has killed 249 people since last October. Roma Chilengi, the health adviser to President Hakainde Hichilema, said the doses will be deployed to the most at risk regions and are due to …

Around eight people who were travelling in a UN helicopter have been taken by the al-Shabab armed Islamist group in Somalia after their aircraft landed, reportedly by mistake, in an area controlled by the group. The security minister for Somalia’s Galmudug region, Mohamed Abdi Aadan, confirmed the incident. He said …