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Police have arrested a 17-year-old girl who allegedly stabbed her adoptive mother to death in Oda, Akure, Nigeria. “The deceased’s family claimed the suspect was suffering from mental illness,” according to the state Police Public Relations Officer, Mrs Funmilayo Odunlami. “The decomposing body of the deceased was found at her …

A man has been arrested for macheting his father to death over a parcel of land in Uruting Village, Okobo Local Government Area of Akwa Ibom State, Nigeria. “The 75-year-old deceased owned numerous parcels of land in the state,” according to his son. “The deceased sold some of the land, …

In a message published on Saturday March 16, the Mexican national airline Aeroméxico reported a birth which took place during a flight which linked Mexico City to Ciudad Juárez the day before. “We welcomed a new passenger in mid-flight! His birth is something extraordinary that touched our hearts,” we can …

11-year-old boy has died after drowning in a stream at Gomoa Potsin in the Gomoa East District of the Central Region, Ghana. “The deceased had gone swimming with his friends when the unfortunate incident occurred,” reports said. The death of the deceased has deeply affected his relatives and the community …

The managers of a bar in the Urals in Russia were placed in pre-trial detention for LGBT+ “extremism”, a court in the city of Orenburg announced this Wednesday. “This is the first criminal case of this type in Russia after the Supreme Court’s decision to classify the LGBT movement as …

The leader of a religious sect in Zimbabwe has been denied bail after his arrest last week for suspected child abuse. Ishmael Chokurongerwa was charged with exploiting minors after police found 251 children working on his farm. Unregistered graves, believed to be of infants, were also found. The self-proclaimed Apostolic …

A 26-year-old cab driver has been arrested for fatally colliding with a pedestrian on the Sunyani-Abesim road in Ghana. “The suspect was driving a Toyota Vitz taxi cab with registration number GR7260-23, from Abesim to Sunyani as he knocked down two pedestrains,” according to reports. On reaching a section of …

A suspect has been arrested for macheting his grandmother to death at Udo Village in the Essien Udim Local Government Area of Akwa Ibom State, Nigeria. “The suspect cut his grandmother’s neck as he fled with her money, worth N16,750,” according to reports. “The deceased was slain by the suspect …

Health authorities in Burkina Faso reported an outbreak of highly pathogenic H5N1 bird flu on a farm located in the capital Ouagadougou. The information was made public by the World Organization for Animal Health (WOAH) on Monday. The virus, also called avian influenza, killed 441 birds out of a flock …

Nigeria’s President Bola Tinubu has ordered the army to arrest the killers of 16 soldiers who were murdered while on a peace mission in the south of the country last week. The troops were responding to clashes between the Okuama and Okoloba communities in the oil-rich southern Delta state, when …