AFRICA

Three children died in a fire in Wallacedene, Cape Town on Thursday morning. The City’s Fire and Rescue Service spokesperson Jermaine Carelse said crews were alerted shortly before 06:30 to informal structures on fire in Pietersen Road. He said: Crews from Kraaifontein and Brackenfell were dispatched, and it was just …

A bus conveying Methodist women to Umuahia somersaulted four times and nobody died nor was injured. Below is the testimony that was shared “At the mention of the name- Jesus every knee shall bow, this was the song of a Methodist women wing that survived a fatal accident on their …

On June 16 each year, Youth Day is celebrated nationally in South Africa to commemorate the Soweto Uprising, or the “16 June” events, which took place on this day in 1976. Thousands of Sowetan students protested the introduction of Afrikaans (the language of their oppressors) as a language next to …

A Nollywood actor, Moses Armstrong, has been arrested by operatives of the Nigeria Police Force, Akwa Ibom State command, for allegedly defiling a minor. His arrest was confirmed by the National President of the Actors Guild of Nigeria, Emeka Rollas, during an interview with Qed. Rollas, according to the report …

A military court has convicted a Somali couple in the capital Mogadishu for terrorism activities under Somalia’s Islamic State (IS) branch. Dayib Moalim Hassan and his wife Halima Abdi Mursal were on Thursday identified as having worked for the terrorist group Daesh under the pseudo names of Mustaf and Hawa. …

The circumstances surrounding how three men who patronized the services of a prostitute but ended up beating her to death after seeing her in possession of the Holy Quran of Muslims is currently under investigation by the police. The customer identified as Abubakar Musa while the prostitute was identified as …

The authorities in Yirol East County, Lakes State, have confirmed that one person has been killed with four of his cows stolen near Wulu camp The incident took place on Wednesday, June 15, 2022. The act was perpetrated by armed raiders suspected to be from the neighboring Panyijiar County of …

Three people have been confirmed dead and five others injured when a gold mine collapsed in the Camp 15 area of Budi County, Eastern Equatoria State, over the weekend, county officials said. Arkangelo Lokolimoi, the kimotong Payam executive director, said the incident occurred on Saturday at around 4 pm and …

Five gang members, who terrorised a local Mpumalanga community, were sentenced for various crimes. The five appeared in the Mpumalanga Division of the High Court on Tuesday. Eduard Ndlovu, 34, Thulani Maphanga, 32, Evens Mavimbela, 30, and Shane Ngobeni, 24, were sentenced to life imprisonment for the murder of Bongani …

Six pupils have died in an accident in the Eastern Cape after a truck and a bakkie transporting school children collided, and then ploughed into pupils on the side of the road who were walking home. Police said the children are aged between 14 and 18. Police spokesperson Brigadier Tembinkosi Kinana …