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Kenya’s first operational satellite was put into orbit on Saturday by a SpaceX rocket that took off from California (United States), according to images from the American space company. The launch, originally scheduled for Monday evening in the United States, had been postponed several times this week due to bad …

As part of his “Love Damini” world tour, Afro-fusion superstar Burna Boy will perform at venues including Paris La Défense, London Stadium and the Gelredome in Amsterdam. He will also add another important date to his tour with a concert on July 8, 2023 at NewYork’s 41,800-seat Citi Field. Burna …

Seven people were rescued from the rubble of a seven-storey building under construction that collapsed in the Banana Island area of Ikoyi, Lagos State, Nigeria. “Construction workers were performing their daily tasks in the building that had been under construction for months when it suddenly caved,” reports said. Some of …

A 25-year-old woman has been attacked and rapped in her in her house at Gomoa Ojobi in the Gomoa East District of the Central Region, Ghana. “The incident occurred on Monday, April 10, 2023,” reports said. The victim was said to be the sister-in-law of Gomoa Ojobi Fulani chief, Haskan …

At least five elephants were killed last week in southern Chad by poachers who seized their tusks, according to the authorities and the Chadian NGO SOS Elephants, which is alarmed on Tuesday by a “sudden resumption” of these acts. There are fewer than 1,500 pachyderms left in Chad in 2023 …

A man was assaulted to death by some youth for inflicting cutlass wounds on the wife in the community at Wurapong, in Yilo Krobo Municipality of the Eastern region of Ghana. “The deceased butchered the wife during a misunderstanding,” reports said. Some angry youth in the community apprehended and beat …

A woman has died in China from H3N8 avian flu, a virus that has been circulating since 2002 and has so far had no known human victims, the World Health Organization (WHO) said on Tuesday. The H3N8 virus, which first appeared on the North American continent, was until now considered …

The Ondo State Police Command has arrested two suspects for stoning a 35-year-old man to death in the Ijoka Area of Akure in Nigeria, reports said. The deceased was killed by an angry mob for alleged reckless driving leading to a road crash. The accident resulted in the death of …

Police in Nigeria’s Osun State announced the arrest of a man, for allegedly attempting to traffick four teenage girls from Osun to Kano state enroute Tripoli in Libya, local media reported. This is contained in a statement released by SP Yemisi Opalola, spokesperson for Osun Police in Osogbo, quoted by …

Alpha Conde lost his wife, Djéné Kaba, the former first lady of Guinea, as a result of an illness, according to reports. A real shock for the former Guinean president, overthrown on September 5, 2021 during a putsch led by the military junta in power. In a statement, the president …