Society

A search operation is under way for 11 people who are missing following the sinking of a fishing vessel off Ghana’s coast. Rescuers have so far been able to retrieve the body of the captain, one of six Chinese nationals on board. The incident reportedly occurred after the crew had …

A 39-year-old woman in Germany has been sentenced to 6 months in prison for secretly punching holes in her partner’s condoms to get pregnant, local media reported. A court in western Germany has found a woman guilty of sexual assault after the aggrieved lover, 42, filed a complaint against her. …

Authorities in Mozambique say over 14,000 HIV patients have abandoned antiretroviral therapy in the first three months of the year in the central province of Zambézia. Male patients form the largest part of those no longer taking the drugs, according to Dr Cheinaze Veríssimo – the provincial head of the …

A 38-year-old farmer in Ghana has been sentenced to 10 years of imprisonment for attempting to kill his 16-year-old biological son for money ritual, 3news website reported. Kwabena Ebo, a resident of Ayisakro, a community near Axim in the Nzema East Municipality of the Western Region, was charged with trading …

An evangelist is in trouble after telling people he knows of a gate leading to heaven from south-western Nigeria that he can show them – for a fee, the BBC reports. Pastor Ade Abraham was reported to police by one of his followers, who said the pastor had charged him …

South African convict Thabo Bester, also known as the Facebook rapist for using the social networking site to lure his victims, has been found dead in his prison cell, according to local media reports. The Department of Correctional Services (DCS) spokesperson is quoted as confirming the death at the Mangaung …

Armed men on Thursday abducted Ayuba Dodo Dakolo, a local leader from Nigeria’s Kaduna state, causing distress in the palace, local media reported. Mr Dakolo was abducted with three of his children and several other people on his farm on the outskirts of the village of Rijana in the northern …

A court in Rwanda has sentenced Sadate Musengimana, a Muslim cleric to five years in prison for killing a pig in a mosque, local media reported. Three witnesses told the court that they saw the imam beating the pig with a piece of wood, killing it on the spot. His …

The organiser of Miss Rwanda beauty pageant, Dieudonné Ishimwe, has been arrested on allegations of sexually abusing contestants, the authorities have said. The arrest of Mr Ishimwe, the chief executive of Rwanda Inspiration Back Up, the company that organises the contest, comes just a month after this year’s edition, the …

A pastor identified in the Democratic Republic of Congo as Zagabe Chiluza surprises the web by marrying four girls, all virgins, on the same day, local media reported. According to local media, the man of God still relies on the Bible to prove that polygamy is not a sin. “I …