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Ghanaian police announced plans to carry out a mass burial for 200 unidentified and unclaimed bodies. The burial will begin “by close of work this week” according to the statement released on Monday. Bodies to be buried are corpses that have accumulated over the past six months, including those of …

The Islamist group, al-Shabab, is reported to have seized a strategic town in central Somalia. Residents of Amara in the Galmudug region said the militants stormed an army base before over-running the town. The insurgents captured several armoured vehicles, burning some of them. Earlier this month the Somali military captured …

On Tuesday, at least four people are known to be dead on spot in a motor accident along Mbale Tororo road in Mbale city in Uganda. The Elgon Region Police Spokesperson, Mr Rogers Taitika, confirmed the accident saying ‘‘the deceased and victims were knocked dead by a speeding FUSO Reg …

The former head of the Guinean-Bissau army will not be handed over to the United States where he is wanted for alleged drug trafficking offenses. The announcement was made by Bissau-Guinean President Umaro Sissoco Embaló. Last week, the US authorities announced a $5m bounty for information leading to the arrest …

An attack on Nigeria’s top military academy left at least two people dead and another abducted, said the Nigerian army in a statement. An army spokesman said unknown gunmen broke into the campus in the northern city of Kaduna in the early hours of Tuesday morning. The Nigerian Defence Academy …

Former Chadian President Hissène Habré died on August 24 in Dakar, the capital of Senegal. He allegedly contracted the coronavirus in prison, according to reports. Hissène Habré, 79 comes to power following the coup d’état which overthrows Goukouni Oueddei, Hissène Habré led Chad for 8 years, from 1982 to 1990. …

The new Zambian president Hakainde Hichilema in his inauguration speech, promised Zambians that change had arrived. He said the country’s economy would be revived. In his speech, he said It was not just a question of fixing the economy but growing it too, and he called for the private sector …

Professor Moustafa MIJIYAWA Minister in charge of health-Togo, is elected president of the 71st session of the WHO regional committee. He will be assisted by his colleagues from Botswana and Sao Tome and in principle as vice-chairmen. The WHO Regional Committee for Africa is the Organization’s decision-making body for health …

Huge crowds have gathered in Zambia’s capital, Lusaka, for the inauguration of Hakainde Hichilema as the country’s new president. On Twitter, President Hakainde Hichilema expressed his gratitude as he see the crowd: As I sit here in our vehicle being driven to Heroes Stadium, I see the love, the joy …

Several African presidents are heading to Zambia to attend the inauguration of the President-Elect Hakainde Hichilema. Tanzania’s Samia Suluhu left Dar es Salaam on Tuesday morning; Mhe. Rais Samia Suluhu Hassan akiagana na viongozi mbalimbali katika Uwanja wa Ndege wa Kimataifa wa Julius Nyerere (JNIA) Jijini Dar es Salaam leo …