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Two candidates for the legislative elections in the Democratic Republic of Congo were shot dead in South and North Kivu, just a few days before the general elections. Sadiki Espoir Ndabuye and Joseph Kasongo Tshomba, legislative candidates were killed just a few days before the general elections scheduled for December …

Suspected bandits have killed four farmers and abducted eight others from Nahuta village in the Batsari Local Government Area of the state, Nigeria. “The farmers were harvesting their crops when the assailants struck,” according to the state spokesman ASP Abubakar Aliyu “One of the farmers who managed to escape sustained …

A 40-year-old man has been found dead behind the Casanova drinking bar near Melcom in the Cape Coast Metropolis of the Central Region, Ghana. “The deceased was found wearing an orange Lacoste and a jeans trouser and not known in the area,” according to residents. “Residents suspected he was killed …

An 82-year-old missionary was found lying dead on the ground in his room with two blood-stained machetes and a knife next to him in the Democratic Republic of Congo. Father Léopold Feyen is a member of the Salesian congregation of Don Bosco in the African vice-province of Congo-Congo (ACC). No …

Suspended by the World Bank since the coup d’état that ousted Ali Bongo from power, Gabon has announced the restoration of cooperation with the institution. According to the government, the resumption of cooperation between the World Bank and Gabon is contained in an official letter dated December 11. The letter …

Police have exhumed the remains of a 60-year-old woman allegedly killed by her son in Kyekyewere, a suburb of Nyamekrom in Ghana’s Eastern Region. “The remains were exhumed from an unfinished building,” according to reports. The suspect was arrested for iron rod theft but later confessed to the murder in …

A woman and her nine-day old were killed when a water reservoir fell on a building in Ayedun Area of Akure, the Ondo State capital, Ghana. “A water reservoir filled with water beside the building fell on it and killed the deceased who were sleeping in the room,” reports said. …

A 35-year-old fisherman has met his untimely death after he drowned at Gomoa Fetteh in the Gomoa East District of the Central Region, Ghana. “The deceased was swimming ashore in a canoe when the incident occurred,” according to reports. “The fisherman park their canoes on the sea after work and …

Cameroonian troops have rescued eight abducted students of a government school in the country’s war-torn English-speaking region of Northwest, according to reports. “The students were kidnapped by armed terrorists from their school in Esu village in the Menchum division of the region,” reports said. The vice-principal and discipline master of …

A soldier has reportedly stabbed a bouncer to death at a nightclub in the Bonny Island area of Rivers State, Nigeria. “The bouncer proceeded to conduct a routine search on the soldier at the entrance of the club as he was on study,” according to reports. “Upoon searching, the bouncer …