Society

A supposed phone seller was arrested by the police in Grand-Yoff (commune of Dakar) following the complaint of his girlfriend’s mother, reports seneweb.com. The respondent sent his 16-year-old girlfriend to prostitute herself with a 53-year-old French national at the price of 50,000F CFA, the sexual intercourse. The young man was …

Colombian star Shakira is in full disagreement with the Spanish prosecutor’s office over the accusation of tax evasion, which she denied. According to her lawyers, the possibility of reaching an agreement remains open until the opening of the trial in a Barcelona court while the formal dismissal of the 45-year-old …

A suicide bomber, wearing an explosive belt, burst into the Merka governorate building in Ethiopia’s Shabeellaha Hoose region and blew himself up, Anadolu Agency reported, citing a police source. According to the agency which quotes the source, the attack “caused the death of 6 people, including the governor of Merka, …

The Central African Republic is under water as several localities in the country are hit by heavy rainfall in recent days with significant human and material damage. Torrential rains recorded in recent days in the Central African Republic led to the death of 10 people, said the Central African Red …

A herd of about 50 elephants said to have escaped from a conservation area in Zimbabwe have reportedly entered residential areas and destroyed food crops in neighbouring Mozambique, the BBC reported. A Mozambican official said that the elephants had crossed into Machaze district in the central Mozambican province of Manica …

Eight school children, a teacher and a driver died after a minibus carrying them to primary school fell into a roadside ditch in southern Tanzania, local media reported citing a police source. Nineteen other pupils from King David School were injured in the accident on Tuesday morning, the police chief …

A father who wanted to sell his three albino children to have their bodies used in witchcraft has been arrested in northwest Mozambique before the deal was finalized, police said on Monday. Police in the Tete region arrested the father and uncle of the three children last weekend, after being …

Several cities in China are on red alert on Monday due to the heat wave hitting the country, where tens of millions of people have been asked to stay at home. Extreme heat waves, sometimes deadly, have affected different places on the planet in recent months, such as Western Europe …

Arrested on July 18 and detained at the Yaoundé Judicial Police Directorate, photos of Pastor Michel Julio Effa Effa have been flooding social networks for a few days. Yesterday a man of God and today an odious man, this retired army captain is suspected of having ordered the robbery and …

A video of a group of commercial motorcyclists (Okada riders) forcibly bathing their colleague who had allegedly not taken his bath for six months has emerged, Pulse reported. The footage that has gone viral on social media shows the motorcyclists grabbing their fellow rider and pouring buckets of water on him, while …