The World Happiness Report has released its 2023 report on the happiest countries in the world. World Happiness Report is an annual study that illustrates the real feelings of people around the world about their life situation. No African country is in the top 10 and Mauritius, which occupies 1st …
Read More »A former Black Stars player passed away
A former Black Stars player Emmanuel Oblitey has died at the Joy Specialist Medical Clinic in Accra, Ghana, according to reports. He died on Sunday, March 19, 2023 at the age of 69. The former Black Stars was a member of the Africa Cup of Nations winning squad in 1963. …
Read More »Death penalty for recognized LGBTQ people in Uganda
Ugandan MPs on Tuesday passed an anti-LGBTQ+ bill that would make same-sex acts punishable by death, prompting strong condemnation from human rights defenders. Almost all of the 389 legislators voted late Tuesday in favor of the anti-homosexuality bill. The new law provides life imprisonment for sexual relations between homosexuals and …
Read More »Marburg virus identified in Tanzania after death of five people
The Tanzanian health ministry says a mysterious disease that killed five people has been identified as Marburg haemorrhagic fever, local media reported. The virus causes high fever, often accompanied by bleeding and organ failure. It is part of a group of viruses that includes Ebola. Tanzania’s health minister, Ummy Mwalimu …
Read More »Vladimir Putin’s entourage now deprived of iPhone
The Kremlin has asked all employees of the internal political bloc of the presidential administration, to swap their iPhones for smartphones of different brands, the daily Kommersant reported. At the beginning of March, a seminar was organized in the Moscow region to ensure that all people working in national and …
Read More »A grandmother sets fire to her son and family in Ondo
A grandmother set fire to her son, wife and two grandchildren in Apomu community in Akure, the capital of Ondo State, Nigeria. The old woman complained of being starved of food while living with her son in the same house. “She set the house ablaze while the family members were …
Read More »Several people injured in an accident in Ghana
19 people have sustained various degrees of injuries in an accident at Gomoa Onyaadze on the Kasoa-Cape Coast Highway, Ghana, according to reports. “The unfortunate incident occurred after the back tyre of a sprinter bus with number GN 3452-17 travelling from Adubiase burst,” according to Adom News. This caused the …
Read More »Man found hanging dead in uncompleted building
The lifeless body of a man was found hanging in an uncompleted building at Tanokrom, a community in the Sekondi-Takoradi Metropolis of the Western Region, Ghana. The man was found hanging on a rope in the building by residents and they rushed to inform the the assembly member of Tanokrom …
Read More »African languages now taught in Russian schools
Some Russian secondary schools have started teaching African languages, a way to strengthen the country’s relationship with Africa, Professor Alexeï Maslov announced at the 2nd Russia-Africa Parliamentary Conference. It is above all about Swahili and Amharic, which are languages originating in East Africa, Alexeï Maslov, director of the Institute of …
Read More »Student died while denied treatment over bed space
An undergraduate of the University of Port Harcourt died due to a lack of bed space in the hospital for prompt treatment in the Lagos University Teaching Hospital, Nigeria. “The victim was studying in school when she suffered a crisis and was rushed to the hospital,” according to information. She …
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