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A road accident occurred at Tanoso in the Kwadaso Municipality of the Ashanti Region on Monday, August 26, 2024, leaving several passengers injured, local media reported. Eyewitnesses reported that a heavily loaded trailer collided with a commercial van. The van, carrying a full load of passengers, was travelling from Abuakwa …

Nine men died when a large pile of gravel collapsed on them while they were working in a quarry in Zambia, according to reports. The men were operating illegally in the quarry and were loading gravel onto a truck, police spokesperson Rae Hamoonga said. The driver of the truck survived …

Nigeria Football Federation (NFF) has appointed former Stuttgart boss Bruno Labbadia as new men’s head coach ahead of the 2025 Africa Cup of Nations qualifying campaign. The 58-year-old German was interviewed by the Nigeria Football Federation (NFF) on Thursday after talks with Swede Janne Andersson and Frenchman Herve Renard collapsed. …

A town in Massachusetts, USA, has imposed the closing of its public parks from dusk to morning due to the spread of a mosquito carrying the Eastern equine encephalitis virus, a potentially fatal disease. To slow the spread of the virus, the town of Plymouth has decided to close “all …

At least 49 people have been killed and thousands displaced after heavy rains caused flooding in the northeast of Nigeria, the National Emergency Management Authority (NEMA), said. Three states in the northeast, Jigawa, Adamawa and Taraba, have been hit hard by floods, with 41,344 people displaced, said NEMA spokesperson Manzo …

At least 60 people have died following the collapse of a dam in eastern Sudan, amid torrential rains, according to report. “Many people are still missing after the collapse of the Arbat dam, which contains a reservoir that is one of the main freshwater resources for the city of Port …

Three workers perished after a building they were working on collapsed in Asempa Down, a suburb of Kasoa in the Awutu Senya East municipality of Ghana’s Central Region. “A carpenter and two other workers were trapped under the debris from the collapse,” a survivor reported. The collapse occurred as the …

In Uganda, two new infections with the mpox virus have been confirmed, bringing the total number of cases in the East African country to four, according to the Ministry of Health. The two new patients were infected with the clade 1b strain of the virus, Health Ministry Director General of …

A 2,492-carat diamond has been discovered in a mine in Botswana, announced the Canadian mining company behind the find. This precious stone, detected in the Karowe mine in northeastern Botswana, Africa’s leading diamond producer, is “one of the largest rough diamonds ever discovered”, Lucara points out in a press release …

At least 13 farmers have been killed during an attack in north-central Nigeria by armed men, accoording to reports. No group immediately claimed responsibility for the killings that took place on Wednesday in the state of Niger. “The farmers were killed for providing information to intelligence agencies about the movements …