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The United States announced the resumption of food deliveries to Ethiopia from December, six months after they were suspended due to corruption allegations. The US international development agency (USAid) said significant reforms would ensure that the food supplies reached those who needed them most. “The aid resumption will be on …

A 9-year-old girl was defiled in a sorghum farm by an unknown man at Shauri Yako estate in Homa Bay townin Kenya, according to report. The victim was on her way to her grandmother’s house before the suspect grabed her into the farm. The victim stabbed her eyelids with a …

The Malian armed forces have entered the northern town of Kidal, which has been in the control of rebel forces. This happened after inflicting heavy losses and carrying out a raid, according to Mali’s army. Tuareg-dominated rebel groups have long controlled much of the north from Kidal, which is reported …

A young man was attacked with a machete while trying to steal dried cocoa beans in Osedzi, in the Ajumako-Enyan-Essiam district, in the Central Region of Ghana. “The victim and two accomplices have found the cocoa folded in a dry­ing mat on the compound of a farmer as they turned …

South African Police Service has announced the arrest of three men accused of sexually abusing three children and a dog in an operation conducted with the aid of the US Department of Homeland Security last week. “As a result of these operations, three South African children who were used during …

Justice Abiola Sholadoye of the Ikeja Special Offences and Domestic Volence Court has sentenced a 32-year-old street sweeper to life imprisonment for defiling a 14-year-old girl in Lagos State, Nigeria. The man was convicted on one count of defilement of the girl, whom he claimed was his girlfriend. The convict …

A Zimbabwe opposition activist who was abducted at the weekend while campaigning ahead of key by-elections has been found dead. Tapfumanei Masaya’s body was found in a decomposed state on the outskirts of the capital Harare, his party, the Citizens Coalition for Change, said. “We demand the police to investigate …

Mauritanian authorities said the bodies of 16 people thought to be migrants have been found on the country’s northern coast. The discovery on the beaches of Lagouera comes a week after 13 corpses were found in boats in the same area, near the city of Nouadhibou. This latest incident appears …

A young woman allegedly poisoned her 11-month-old baby to death in Logo Local Government Area, Benue State, Nigeria. “The woman has fed the baby witht a substance suspected to be a chemical,” according to reports. “She was impregnated by her boyfriend and after she gave birth to a baby girl, …

Nigerian authorities have announced they will withdraw police officers from VIP security duties in line with a presidential directive. State Minister of Police Affairs Hajia Imaan Sulaiman-Ibrahim said the police force was currently struggling following decades of neglect that had hampered its ability to fulfil its constitutional mandate. She said …