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Chad’s Constitutional Council has confirmed the results of the presidential election, declaring interim military leader Mahamat Déby the winner. It also rejected challenges by two losing candidates in the 6 May elections. The country’s electoral body declared Gen Déby winner of the election with 61% of the vote, with his …

Five health workers have been arrested for the disappearance of a newborn baby’s umbilical cord and placenta at Government Cottage Hospital, Iloffa, in Oke-Ero Local Government Area of Nigeria State. “A woman gave birth to a baby while the umbilical cord and the placenta were yet to be given to …

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 …

The Palestinian Football Federation (PFA) demanded the “immediate” suspension of Israel from FIFA due to the war in Gaza, Friday May 17. “The ball is in your court,” said its leader Jibril Rajoub to Gianni Infantino, president of the governing body of world football, whose 74th congress is being held …

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. …

A 14-year-old man died after participating in a very controversial challenge consisting of eating an extremely spicy potato chip, according to an autopsy report consulted this Thursday, May 16. A resident of Massachusetts, in the northeast of the country, Harris Wolobah suffered a “cardioventilatory arrest due to the ingestion of …

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 …

The number of deaths from drug overdoses fell in 2023 in the United States, for the first time since 2018, American health authorities announced this Wednesday 15th. The main cause of the overdose crisis currently affecting the country is fentanyl, an extremely powerful and addictive synthetic opioid. The number of …

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 …

Rwanda’s High Court has excluded a prominent opposition politician and critic of President Paul Kagame, preventing him from running in July’s presidential elections. Bernard Ntaganda, 55, had asked the court to lift his convictions so he could qualify to run in the election. The High Court declined Mr Ntaganda’s request …