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Nigerian National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) has destroyed about 255 hectares of cannabis farms in Ondo state in the south-west of the country. “Thirteen suspects were arrested and 250 kilogrammes of cannabis seeds as well as 63.85 kilogrammes (of) cannabis weeds were recovered,” the AFP news agency quotes the …

Seven people have died and many more injured after an illegal mine collapsed on Tuesday morning in Gololcha district in Ethiopia’s Oromia region, many media reported. “Eleven people were injured and taken to hospital, some with serious injuries,” local authorities were quoted as saying by the BBC. The victims were …

Authorities in Nigeria have announced the seizure of 120 tonnes of imported animal hides and skins, often sold as food, in the city of Lagos, local media reported. According to the National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control (Nafdac), they were intercepted on suspicion that were already processed …

A school official has been arrested in Kenya after one person died and at least a dozen others were injured after a convoy of school buses was attacked by bandits. Interior Minister Fred Matiang’i said the school headteacher was arrested because the school buses were travelling past the stipulated time, …

Gunmen have shot dead at least eight people and 51 cows at a new cattle market in the south-eastern Nigerian state of Abia, local media reported. Regional police spokesperson Geoffrey Ogbonna told the BBC that a number of people had also been wounded while shops and the market’s fence had …

A Hollywood actor was sentenced Monday to 20 years in prison by a Los Angeles court for having extracted 650 million dollars from investors using fake contracts with the Netflix or HBO platforms. Accused of having organized for almost seven years this incredible pyramid fraud scheme which allowed him to …

A rail collision near Munich in southern Germany on Monday left one dead and more than 10 injured, German police said. Indeed, the two local trains collided at the end of the afternoon in the area of the Ebenhausen-Schäftlarn station, south of the Bavarian capital. “There is one dead and …

A teacher at Asaba Nursery and Primary School in Nigeria’s Delta State has been arrested for allegedly whipping a 19-month-old pupil to death, police report. The teacher allegedly left several marks on the toddler’s body after whipping him last Monday. According to reports, the suspect, believed to be the son …

The number of people killed during three bomb blasts in a national park in Benin this week has risen to nine, government has announced. A soldier and five park rangers were killed in an attack by suspected Islamist militants in W National Park in northern Benin, the South African wildlife …

Tanzanian MPs say the use of emergency contraceptives, known as P2, is on the rise among to prevent pregnancies among girls and women aged between 14 and 24. A recent report by members of a parliamentary health committee into the rise in HIV infections found that girls and young women …