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A woman was found dead with an empty bottle of insecticide found beside her corpse and her child in the bush along Suuka Airport road, in the Federal Capital Territory, in Nigeria. The victim’s corpse was found when passers-by heard her baby crying in the bush. The corpse has been …

At least 54 people, including women and children, died and several others were wounded in two separate road accidents in Nigeria on Tuesday, authorities said. In one of the crashes, at least 37 people died after two buses collided head-on and burst into flames on a highway between the north-eastern …

Ghanaian police arrest a man who attempted suicide after beating his wife to death during a misunderstanding. A neighbor also said he beat his wife until she collapsed and lost consciousness. Suspecting she could be dead, the suspect is said to have taken a poisonous substance believed to be weedicide …

Two female police officers were reported dead and several injured in a fatal accident on their way for a sporting event in Nigeria. The deceased have been identified as Police Constable Godiya and Police Constable Kubra. According to the Police Command, they were traveling to Akwa Ibom state for a …

Russia has engaged in “systemic war crimes” wherever it deployed troops in Ukraine, a senior US official charged on Monday, saying she was confident Russian officials would eventually be brought to justice. “We have mounting evidence that this aggression (the Russian invasion, editor’s note) was accompanied by systemic war crimes …

A factory fire in central China has left at least 36 people dead and two missing, the official Xinhua news agency reported on Tuesday, citing local authorities. The fire was under control as of 8 p.m. local time and at least 60 firefighters were mobilized, news agencies reported. “After receiving …

Adamawa Police Command arrested a 52-year-old man for raping a 13-year-old girl in Sangere Jabbi Lamba, Girei Local Government Area of State, Nigeria. The suspect, a Vice Principal of Government Girl’s Secondary School in Abba Murke in the Song Local Government Area, lured the victim to an uncompleted building and …

A 16-year-old girl has died while in labour at a native nurse’s house at New Ebu in the Abura Asebu Kwamankese District of the Central Region, Ghana. The grandmother of the deceased sent her to a native nurse in the community for delivery and in the process, she bled profusely …

A 45-year-old carpenter has beaten his wife to death during an argument bordering on the owner of a private school in Nigeria’s Ogun state. The deceased and her husband were at home arguing over the owner of the property. The argument degenerated and the carpenter hit his wife with an …

The health ministry in Uganda has denied in a press release, allegations that a running event held last weekend at the capital, Kampala, was an Ebola super-spreading event. In the statement, the ministry said no participant at the marathon presented any symptom of the deadly virus. “No Ebola case had …