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Tourism Minister in Kenya, Najib Balala said more than 70 elephants died the last year as a result of the ongoing drought affecting all East African States. According to the minister, cited by the BBC, number of giraffes also died. Authorities fear the ecosystem will experience more wildlife deaths if …

A Court in Tamale has sentenced a 34-year old mathematics teacher at Sawla Senior High School in the Savannah Region, Ernest Ocloo, to 15 years of imprisonment after finding him guilty of raping one of his students. The sexual assault occurred in 2019, and the case had since been on …

A court in Kigali has cleared a rape charge against the Miss Rwanda pageant organiser but said he will be prosecuted for other alleged sex crimes. The court on Monday also denied Dieudonné Ishimwe bail following his arrest late last month. Mr Ishimwe was accused of rape, soliciting or offering …

The United Nation’s humanitarian affairs agency (Ocha) says the world is not paying enough attention to crises beyond the war in Ukraine including a devastating drought in East Africa. The head of the organisation, Martin Griffiths, made the appeal after visiting Turkana in north-west Kenya where food is extremely scarce …

A 39-year-old fetish priest, Kwesi Tando, shot himself, his wife, Abena Ketsewa, and a one-year-old child, Richmond Tando, at Enyan Abowinum in central Ghana on Wednesday, reported starfm. According to the website, Tando committed the act following marital issues he was having with his wife, and he decided to marry …

Police in Nigeria arrested two people suspected of being linked to the murder of a Christian student accused of blasphemy against Islam. The young woman was attacked by Muslim students at her college in the city of Sokoto, who killed her and set her body alight. Religious and political leaders …

No one survived after the small plane carrying 11 passengers crashed in the forest near the Cameroonian capital, Yaoundé, state radio reports. An unnamed official from the transport ministry also told AFP that “there were no survivors”. The cause of the crash was not immediately clear. “The plane lost radio …

A military court in the Democratic Republic of Congo has sentenced to death Christian Ngoy Kenga Kenga, a Top police officer for his role in the murder of top human rights activists Floribert Chebeya and his driver. Mr Kenga was found guilty of murder, desertion and the misappropriation of weapons …

A High Court in the northern Nigeria has sentenced a 19-year-old man to death for the kidnapping for ransom and killing of his five-year-old nephew in 2019. Ibrahim Khalil allegedly kidnapped his sister’s son, Ado, and used a sellotape to cover his nose and mouth before burying him in a …

A small passenger plane carrying 11 people crashed in a forest near the Cameroonian capital, Yaoundé, on Wednesday, the country’s transport ministry said. The aircraft was flying from Yaoundé Nsimalen airport to Belabo, in the east of the country, it added. The cause of the crash was not immediately clear. …