AFRICA

At least five people were killed and scores injured in an explosion at a depot in a south-eastern town in Bangladesh, officials say. The explosion happened after firefighters were called to put out a fire at a container storage facility in the town of Sitakunda. Twenty of the injured are …

Hudson Diphofa from South Africa was among many workers who lost their jobs at the height of the pandemic. He became desperate and frustrated as he couldn’t find a way out of his situation. He then decided to become his own boss instead of working for people and getting retrenched …

A Florida driver distracted by receiving intimate services from his passenger lost track of his surroundings and crashed head-on (it only gets worse from here, folks) into a FedEx delivery vehicle in Ft. Lauderdale on Thursday, resulting in “injuries to his private area,” WPLG Local 10 reports. The man and …

A man and a woman died in a Cape Town informal settlement fire on Saturday which destroyed 15 homes and left 64 people homeless. City of Cape Town mayoral committee member for safety and security JP Smith said the alarm was raised at 7.26am about a fire at The Gatjie …

The search for a five-year-old boy who did not return home after he went playing in Louisvaleweg, Upington, four days ago continues. Le-Virno Van Wyk was last seen on Tuesday after school, when he went to play, but he never returned home. Northern Cape police spokesperson Sergeant Omphile Masegela said …

A controversial South African entertainer has been banned from entering Malawi on moral grounds. Authorities in the southern African country announced that Zodwa Wabantu was banned from entering or performing in the country because her revealing dance moves were out of sync with the nation’s moral standards. Malawi has thus …

A yet-to-be-identified woman abandoned a newborn on Wednesday at an uncompleted building in the Sarkin Kudu area of Bogoro Local Government Area of Bauchi State. Our correspondent learnt that the baby was found bare on Thursday morning with his placenta yet to be removed. It was also learnt that security …

Three siblings were on Thursday evening June 3, found dead inside a parked car they were playing in the Owode Elede area of Ikorodu, Lagos. The Nation reported that it is speculated that the kids identified as Oliseh, Daniel and Destiny Egba, three, six and eight years respectively, suffocated. It …

Guinea’s military-led transition government has announced a new set of prices for petroleum products, despite repeatedly promising it would not increase the cost of the commodity. The decision announced on Tuesday saw the prices of petrol, diesel, and oil go up 12,000 GNF ($1.36) per litre, up from 10,000 GNF …

Kenya seeks to dominate in the supply of liquefied petroleum gas (LPG) by constructing the biggest import and storage gas facility in Mombasa and licensing more private companies to compete with Tanzania which has dominated the business for years in the region. The announcement to construct a 25,000 tonnes storage …