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Eight worshippers were killed and 16 others injured after a man attacked a mosque with a locally made explosive in northern Nigeria’s Kano state. The suspect attacked the mosque in Kano’s remote Gadan village “purely in hostility following prolonged family disagreement,” police spokesman Abdullahi Haruna said. “The worshippers were locked …

A Kaduna Chief Magistrates Court has ordered a man found guilty of stealing a woman’s purse to sweep the court grounds for three weeks in Ghana. “The accused had broken into the lady’s store pretending to buy a loaf of bread,” Inspector Chidi Leo, the police prosecutor, told the court. …

Residents of the Kenyan capital Nairobi have been urged to be vigilant as Kenyan Wildlife Authorities said lions were roaming the city. The Kenyan wildlife authorities have urged residents of Nairobi’s Lang’ata area to be vigilant following reports of three lions spotted nearby. On Thursday, a team from the Kenya …

A Policeman has been shot dead by unknown assailants in the Bobiri Forest Reserve at Kubease near Ejisu, Ghana. A complaint was lodged by a certain Caleb Adu Agyemang, MP for the Kubease constituency, alleging that an adult male in his thirties was found dead in the forest reserve on …

A 22-year-old man has been arrested for killing his two-year-old son in Berekum-Koraso, in the Berekum West district of Ghana’s Bono region. “The suspect has tied the body in a sack and dumped it in a bush,” according to reports. However, luck eluded him as some community members spotted him …

Internet has been restored in Tanzania after a severe three-day outage, one of the country’s major telecom companies says. Tanzania and the French territory of Mayotte were the worst-hit by the outage that began on Sunday morning, with connectivity levels falling below 30% of what they were expected to be. …

A 43-year-old man has been sentenced to life imprisonment over a murder attempt on a woman by macheting her in the farm in Aramoko Ekiti, Nigeria. The suspect was arraigned before the court on a one-count charge bordering on an attempt to murder. The victim, in her testimony before the …

The body of a young woman was found floating near the bank of the Afram River in the community of Akotoe, in the Upper Manya Krobo district, in the Eastern Region of Ghana. The victim, believed to be an 18-year-old female, was found with a sack loaded with stones tied …

The death toll from flooding caused by torrential rains that have persisted for almost three weeks in Kenya has risen to 267. “The death toll from the floods had risen to 267, while 188 others were injured,” Home Affairs Minister Kithor Kindiki The Kenyan minister also pointed out that 75 …

Five students from Apam Senior High School have been arrested for assaulting their classmates during a fight in the Gomoa West district of Ghana’s Central Region. “They are being held for allegedly assaulting their classmates during a fight on campus,” according to reports. According to reports, “one of the victims …