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Nigerian authorities have announced that they have received the first batch of vaccine against the mpox virus that is wreaking havoc on the continent. The country began the process to secure the vaccines well before it was declared a global health emergency by the World Health Organization (WHO) earlier this …

A road accident occurred at Tanoso in the Kwadaso Municipality of the Ashanti Region on Monday, August 26, 2024, leaving several passengers injured, local media reported. Eyewitnesses reported that a heavily loaded trailer collided with a commercial van. The van, carrying a full load of passengers, was travelling from Abuakwa …

Nine men died when a large pile of gravel collapsed on them while they were working in a quarry in Zambia, according to reports. The men were operating illegally in the quarry and were loading gravel onto a truck, police spokesperson Rae Hamoonga said. The driver of the truck survived …

Nigeria Football Federation (NFF) has appointed former Stuttgart boss Bruno Labbadia as new men’s head coach ahead of the 2025 Africa Cup of Nations qualifying campaign. The 58-year-old German was interviewed by the Nigeria Football Federation (NFF) on Thursday after talks with Swede Janne Andersson and Frenchman Herve Renard collapsed. …

A town in Massachusetts, USA, has imposed the closing of its public parks from dusk to morning due to the spread of a mosquito carrying the Eastern equine encephalitis virus, a potentially fatal disease. To slow the spread of the virus, the town of Plymouth has decided to close “all …

At least 49 people have been killed and thousands displaced after heavy rains caused flooding in the northeast of Nigeria, the National Emergency Management Authority (NEMA), said. Three states in the northeast, Jigawa, Adamawa and Taraba, have been hit hard by floods, with 41,344 people displaced, said NEMA spokesperson Manzo …

Nigerian President Bola Tinubu has appointed new security and intelligence chiefs, a week after their predecessors abruptly resigned, local media reported. Mohammed Mohammed, who headed Nigeria’s mission to Libya, will lead the National Intelligence Agency. Adeola Ajayi will helm the Department of State Security. The previous agency chiefs, appointed by …

Fighting resumed on Sunday August 25 between M23 rebels and the Congolese army in eastern DRC, Lubero, a townclose to the border with Uganda. In a statement issued on Monday August 26, the Congolese army claimed that rebels had attacked its positions in the village of Kikubo, violating a ceasefire …

At least 60 people have died following the collapse of a dam in eastern Sudan, amid torrential rains, according to report. “Many people are still missing after the collapse of the Arbat dam, which contains a reservoir that is one of the main freshwater resources for the city of Port …

Three workers perished after a building they were working on collapsed in Asempa Down, a suburb of Kasoa in the Awutu Senya East municipality of Ghana’s Central Region. “A carpenter and two other workers were trapped under the debris from the collapse,” a survivor reported. The collapse occurred as the …