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A man was electrocuted while he was fixing power on a pole in Muyavwa sub-location in Busia County in Kenya, according to reports. “The deceased was on duty when he was hit by the live wire,” reports said. The man died on the spot after being burnt severely. The body …

A 29-year-old man fell into a pit latrine as he tried to retrieve a mobile phone in Emakwale area, Kakamega, kenya, according to reports. “A man went to relieve himself inside a pit latrine when his mobile fell into the pit latrine,” according to reports. “The deceased had offered to …

A butchered body of a 45-year-old man was found on a farm in Abrokro, a suburb of Agona Nyakrom in Ghana’s Central Region. “The deceased was found with cutlass wound behindhis neck and on his head,” reports said. “The deceased told a co-tenants last Wednesday that he would be travelling …

The governor of Nigeria’s central Kogi state, Yahaya Bello, has denied he was the target of an assassination attempt along the busy Lokoja-Abuja highway. His spokesperson Kingsley Fanwo had earlier been quoted by local media saying that gunmen “dressed in military uniforms” attacked Mr Bello’s convoy on Sunday. Mr Fanwo …

A 39-year-old woman was arrested overnight from Tuesday to Wednesday in Milan, Italy, suspected of having sexually assaulted an octogenarian in order to divert his attention and steal money and objects from his house, local media reported. It was the children of this 84-year-old man who alerted the authorities and …

Women alleged to be sex workers were sentenced to 17 years in prison in hard labour, for trafficking four girls and forcing them into sex trade in the Wassa Amenfi East Municipality, Ghana. The 30 year-old was handed 10 years for trafficking three of the victims, and thhe 28 year-old …

Kenyan police has announced the arrest of a 23-year-old lady whose 59-year-old boyfriend died in her room during afternoon sex, local media reported. According to reports, the boyfriend visited his lover on Wednesday, October 18 at her rental house before his mysterious death. She told police that she had prepared …

A 57-year-old woman her son have been arrested over the death of a 56-year-old farmer at Akyem Manso in the Eastern Region, Ghana. “The woman and the deceased had a misunderstanding that turned into a dispute between the two,” reports said. The two suspects brutally assaulted the deceased with clubs …

Four women died and 13 were injured in a stampede at Kericho Stadium, hours before Kenya’s Mashujaa celebrations, according to reports. Mashujaa Day’s stampede was caused by a lady selling tea outside the stadium who accidentally spilled hot tea into the fire near the public road. This resulted to a …

Mozambican health authorities have reported an outbreak of highly pathogenic H7 avian influenza, commonly called bird flu, among poultry in the southern part of the country, the World Organisation for Animal Health (WOAH) said on Thursday. The bird flu outbreak was found on a farm of 54,207 laying hens aged …