Society

A 65-year-old cocoa farmer was found dead under a tree in a bush at Mankranso in the Ahafo Ano South West District of the Ashanti Region, Ghana. Some of her family members thronged to the farm in search of her after she spent more than the usual time in the …

A 35-year-old woman was shot by armed men at Awutu Edahadaha, in the Awutu Senya West District of the Central Region, Ghana. She sustained gunshot injuries to her waist after armed men shot sporadically through the windows of every house after residents failed to open their doors. According to some …

A pregnant Mexican woman was found dead after being disemboweled by two assailants who stole her unborn baby, authorities said. “The alleged perpetrators were arrested with a newborn baby in their possession,” the Attorney General’s Office of the eastern state of Veracruz said in a statement. The suspects, a man …

A one-year-old boy was found dead after falling into a bucket of water as he was left under care of his siblings in Nnewi, Anambra State, Nigeria. The child walked towards buckets of water outside and fell into one of them while the siblings were playing. Meanwhile he was left …

Unidentified gunmen have kidnapped Benue State Commissioner for Housing and Urban Development Ekpe Ogbu and two fellow passengers, police say. They had been travelling back from church when it happened, Benue state official Terver Akase tells BBC News Pidgin. According to local reports the kidnapping took place at the Adankari …

The authorities in the northern Mozambican province of Cabo Delgado say lightning strikes killed five people and injured seven others at the weekend. According to district administrator Matias Constantino, who confirmed the fact today, people were hit while watching a recreational football match in Nangande disctrict. Speaking to state radio …

Between 1,200 and 3,000 Moroccans demonstrated in Rabat on Sunday against “high cost of living and political repression”, at the call of left-wing organizations, against a backdrop of accelerating inflation and rising social discontent. This national march, one of the largest in recent months, brought together between 1,200 and 1,500 …

Three Chinese cosmonauts returned to earth on Sunday after six months aboard the Tiangong space station, the Chinese space agency said, describing their mission as “total success”. The crew, who had been on board the Chinese space station since early June, landed at the Dongfeng site in Inner Mongolia (northern …

Armed men abducted thirteen men after attacking the mosque where they were gathered to pray in Katsina State, northwestern Nigeria, police said on Sunday. Late on Saturday evening, “armed men attacked the mosque in the village of Maigamji and abducted 19 worshipers after shooting and wounding the imam and another …

A 67-year-old woman was found hanged in an unfinished building of her own home in Nkusukum, in the central region of Ghana, local media reported. Speaking in an interview, a daughter of the deceased, said she woke up early in the morning going for jogging and her mother was nowhere …