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 …
Read More »Gambia : Ousman Sonko sentenced to 20 years for crimes against humanity
Gambian former interior minister, Ousman Sonko has been sentenced to 20 years in prison by a court in Switzerland for crimes against humanity committed when President Yahya Jammeh was in power. Ousman Sonko fled to Switzerland in 2016 and claimed asylum, shortly before Mr Jammeh was voted out of office. …
Read More »Internet service restored in Tanzania after serious outage
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. …
Read More »Man jailed for attempting to kill woman in farm
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 …
Read More »Mozambique opens investigation after death of Russian ambassador
The Mozambican government said it was working with Russian authorities to investigate the circumstances surrounding the death of the Russian Ambassador Alexander Surikov, local media reported. Surikov, 68, was found dead on Saturday night at his official residence in the Mozambican capital, Maputo, local media reported. The cause of his …
Read More »The US announces closure of its embassy in Tanzania
The US Embassy in Tanzania has closed its doors for two days due to an internet outage affecting several East African countries. “Due to degraded network service nationwide, the embassy will remain closed to the public,” the embassy said in a post on X (formerly Twitter) on Monday. It cancelled …
Read More »Woman found dead with a bag full of stones around her waist
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 …
Read More »South African leader to sign controversial health bill before election
South African President Cyril Ramaphosa is due to sign into law a contentious national health bill that aims to provide universal coverage to millions of poor citizens. The National Health Insurance (NHI) bill seeks to give South Africans “of all races, rich or poor and legal long-term residents” access to …
Read More »Flood death toll rises to 267 in Kenya
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 …
Read More »Chadian Prime Minister Masra files petition to annul poll results
Chad’s interim Prime Minister Succès Masra has filed a petition at the Constitutional Council challenging the preliminary results of last week’s presidential election. According to the results, General Mahamat Idriss Déby won 61.3% of the votes, while Succes Masra, received 18.53%. “With the help of our lawyers, today we submitted …
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