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“The Little Mermaid,” the most anticipated film to hit theaters on May 24, 2023, had its world premiere on Hollywood Boulevard in Los Angeles. In the aftermath, young African-American Halle Bailey was praised for her starring role as Disney’s first black princess in live action. This has inspired many black …

No fewer than six passengers died after being stung by bees when the bus they were traveling in crashed on the road in Nicaragua, Central America, according to reports. “The driver encountered mechanical problems and lost control of the school bus in the municipality of San Sebastián de Yalí,” reports …

The Assin Fosu District Court has remanded a 34-year-old man in custody for subjecting his son to mutilation and torture after catching him at a gaming center in Ghana. “The father started to discipline the child right at the game center before extending the assault home,” the Chief Inspector Benjamin …

A federal university of Bayelsa State student reportedly collapsed and died after overdosing on a popular illicit synthetic drug known as Colorado in Nigeria, according to reports. “The deceased was celebrating a recent breakthrough on an Internet fraud deal with his friends when he accidentally consumed an excess of the …

A 29-year-old Internet fraudster has been arrested for plotting with his mother to use his sister for a money ritual in Lagos, Nigeria, according to reports. “My mother was the one who took me to a native doctor and i was asked to sacrifice a sibling i loved the most,” …

A 40-year-old man drowned in the Oda River while chasing a grascutter at Chiransa, in the Bekwai Municipality of the Ashanti Region, Ghana. “Three hunters went to hunt for grasscutter in the bush before the incident,” according to the Unit Committee Chairman of the area, Benjamin Amponsah. They saw a …

Ugandan High Court judge Stephen Mubiru on Tuesday convicted six people of murdering two South Sudanese businessmen at Juba City hotel at Arua Park in Kampala and injuring another in 2018, DailyMonitor reported. Justice Mubiru found the six guilty of murder, attempted murder and aggravated robbery. However, the judge acquitted …

The Bibiani Circuit Court has remanded a 24-year-old man for defiling three pupils in the Sehwi Wiawso Municipality of the Western North Region of Ghana. “The accused organized an extra classes for his pupils in his house with a claim that he needed to complete the academic year syllabus without …

The leader of a Kenyan cult is expected back in court on Wednesday as police continue to investigate the deaths of more than 130 of his followers, local media reported. They want to continue to hold Paul Nthenge Mackenzie, who was arrested last month and is accused of ordering followers …

Gunmen have attacked a church in north-west Nigeria’s Kaduna state, kidnapping at least 25 members of the congregation, local media reported. According to an official from the Christian Association of Nigeria, the gunmen burst into the Bege Baptist Church in Chikun initially abducting 40 people but 15 managed to escape. …