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Some Senior High School (SHS) female students in Ghana issued a warning to married women, urging them to hide their husbands in order to avoid losing them as they return home for the holidays, Pulse website reported. The students gave the caution in a video widely shared on social media, …

Tetraplegic for 12 years, a 40-year-old died peacefully at home after receiving the lethal drug and a self-injection device in Italy, a first in the country. The Luca Coscioni Association, which campaigns for the right to assisted suicide and euthanasia, has received funds to provide this 40-year-old with the device …

The Ugandan military said it discovered a bomb-making material at a training facility in the west of the capital, Kampala. According to the army, the facility belonged to the rebel Allied Democratic Forces (ADF), a militia that pledged allegiance to the Islamic State group. The authorities recovered nails, wires and …

Zimbabwean nurses’ unions called on their members to go on strike next week to protest low pay and demand better working conditions. “Our members will not be able to turn up for duty starting on Monday June 20,” Zimbabwe Professional Nurses Union president Robert Chiduku said. The government and health …

Cameroon has no chance of lifting the 2022 World Cup trophy, according to the results of a study conducted by the company Opta and shared by several sports media. According to the company that produces the majority of football statistics, African countries are at the bottom of the rankings with …

The World Health Organization (WHO) is procuring thousands of monkeypox tests for Africa and working to ensure Africa has equitable access to vaccines when needed, the WHO director for Africa, Matshidiso Moeti. Dr Moeti said eight countries in Africa including Nigeria, Cameroon and Democratic Republic of Congo where it is …

A Nigerian sex worker who plied her trade in Lagos has been killed and burnt after rendering her services to a customer who later found a Quran under her pillow, Pulse.ng reported. According to website, the sex worker charged the customer N1,000 for the sexual service but realized later that …

At least 35 teenagers have been rescued from a so-called ‘baby factory’ where women and girls are kept to give birth to babies for sale in Nigeria. Authorities said four of the girls in the building in the south-eastern state of Anambra were already pregnant. Police spokesperson Torchukwu Ikenga is …

Kenyan President Uhuru Kenyatta on Wednesday called for immediate deployment of a new regional military force to try to stop rebel violence in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, Reuters reported. President Kenyatta is calling for the immediate deployment of regional troops in close coordination with the UN peacekeeping mission in …

Police in Zimbabwe announced the arrest of Pius Jamba, on suspicion of murdering an opposition activist whose mutilated body was found in a well, three weeks after she was reported missing. Pius Jamba described as an ex-lover of Moreblessing Ali, an activist close to the opposition party Citizens Coalition for …