Society

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 …

Police arrested three men who camped out with three teenage girls for weeks while the suspects engaged in an orgy with them at Bossman, a suburb of Obuasi, Ghana. “The students were reported missing on April 24, 2024,” according to reports. On May 8, 2024, the mother of one of …

22 people died after consuming a stolen pregnant goats at Akyem Osenase community in the Eastern Region, Ghana. According to reports, “deaths have been reported within a month after the deceased allegedly consumed stolen pregnant goats.” “The suspects sold the stolen goats to a drinking bar operator who prepared pepper …

The Nigerian Senate has proposed tougher penalties for drug trafficking, suggesting the death penalty as a new maximum sentence. This would replace life imprisonment, which until now has been the most severe penalty. Nigeria has gone from being a transit point to a major producer, consumer and distributor of illicit …

A B737/300 airliner chartered by Air Sénégal missed its takeoff at 01:00 on Thursday morning, injuring 11 people, including 4 seriously, according to reports. The incident occurred at Blaise Diagne International Airport in Diass, some 40 km from the capital Dakar, when the aircraft overshot its runway and came to …

A 24-year-old South Korean student died after paying 6.5 million won, or around £3,800, for surgery to reshape his chin and give him the appearance of a K-pop star. The man was conscious about his looks tragically died after plastic surgery, with CCTV revealing the horrifying truth. The family of …