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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 …

Lionel Messi won his 8th Ballon d’Or at the Ballon d’Or 2023 awards ceremony held at the Théâtre du Châtelet in Paris. At the age of 36, Lionel Messi won the prestigious award for the 8th time. The Argentine star is ahead of Norway’s Erling Haaland (2nd) and France’s Kylian …

The body of a deceased young man was exhumed and burned by a group of individuals in Touba in Senega, according to reports. The body of the victim, who died last week, had been buried by his family in Senegal’s second largest city. However, individuals went to the cemetery in …

Egypt’s media regulator has ordered the closure of an independent news website for six months while it is investigated on suspicion of spreading fake news. Mada Masr is accused of publishing material that damaged national security. The website’s editor, Lina Attallah, has been asked to explain a report that Egypt …

Manhattan police announced that they had arrested a man suspected of killing a woman, a man and a dog at the end of September amid a neighborhood conflict. After the incident, which took place in the street, the suspect fled, engaging the police in a long chase to find him. …

South African authorities have said the UN should deploy “a rapid protection force” to intervene in the Israel-Gaza conflict “to protect the civilian population from further bombardment”. In a hard-hitting statement, the international relations ministry highlighted the number of children who have been killed so far in the conflict and …

In Algeria, the 3rd largest French-speaking country in the world, private Algerian schools are no longer allowed to teach the French curriculum. On September 19, Algerian private schools received a sharp reminder from the Ministry of Education: “only the Algerian national curriculum is authorized”. Failure to comply could result in …

Hurricane Otis, which devastated the Pacific coast of Mexico, including the famous seaside resort of Acapulco, left 48 dead, and six people remain missing. A previous report reported 43 deaths, most of them by drowning, but the deaths of five other people in Coyuca de Benitez, a town neighboring Acapulco, …

An abandoned baby boy has been rescued in the bush near the Bole customs barrier on the Bole-Bamboi highway in the Savannah region, Ghana. “The baby was found by a young man who was relaxing in the bush when he heard the cry of a baby,” according to Adom News. …