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A 49-year-old former professor at the University of West Georgia (United States) has been sentenced to life in prison for the murder of a student last year. He will be able to benefit from parole after 30 years in prison, or at the age of 77, if his detention goes …

Russian President Vladimir Putin signed this Thursday, November 2, the law on the revocation of the ratification of the Nuclear Test Ban Treaty (Ticen), against a backdrop of conflict in Ukraine and crisis with the West. The Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty was opened for signature in 1996, but it never entered …

The attorney general at the Niamey Court of Appeal, Salissou Chaïbou, affirmed that there had been an attempt to escape by overthrown President Mohamed Bazoum. “These are real facts and not a staging,” said Salissou Chaïbou about Mohamed Bazoum’s escape attempt, in a statement broadcast on national television, Télé Sahel. …

A mob set fire to two suspected thugs near Sokoto Road, Main Market, in Onitsha, Anambra State, Nigeria, reports said. “A tricycle operator had dropped a passenger and his goods in the market, and as he was about to move, the suspects approached him and attempted to disposse him of …

Zimbabwean member of parliament, Takudzwa Ngadziore, 25, has become the latest opposition member to allegedly be abducted. Mr Ngadziore, a member of the Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC), posted a video on Facebook showing a gun-toting man he said was chasing him. “I am being followed,” the panting MP said …

Nineteen kidney patients have died since Ghana’s largest renal centre closed in May due to funding difficulties, the BBC reported, citing the president of the country’s Renal Patients Association. Kofi Baffour Ahenkorah made the disclosure as Health Minister Kwaku Agyeman Manu was due to meet management at Korle-Bu Teaching Hospital …

A court in Uganda has ordered a US couple to pay their foster child about $26,000 in compensation after convicting them of cruel, inhumane or degrading treatment, local media reported. The compensation resulted from a plea deal, which led to the court dropping charges of aggravated trafficking and torture that …

A junior navy officer named by The Gambia’s government as the mastermind of a foiled coup plot in December last year has been found guilty of treason and sentenced to 12 years in prison. A high court on Tuesday ruled that Lance Corporal Sanna Fadera planned and attempted to unlawfully …

Mali’s northern Tuareg rebels said they had seized a base in Kidal vacated by the United Nations on Tuesday, potentially leading to a showdown in the strategic city where Mali’s army is hoping to wrest back control, local media reported. The U.N. mission, known as MINUSMA, has until Dec. 31 …

U.S. President Joe Biden said on Monday that he intends to end the participation of Gabon, Niger, Uganda and the Central African Republic in the African Growth and Opportunity Act (AGOA) trade program. Biden said he was taking the step because of “gross violations” of internationally recognized human rights by …