AFRICA

Tension run high in Ilorin, capital of Nigeria’s Kwara State as Muslims and Christians violently clashed over the use of hijab in state schools controlled by the church. The violent exchanges of today were specifically at the Baptist Secondary School where persons of both faiths threw stones and plastic chairs …

German police detained a Gambian man on Tuesday suspected of participating in crimes against humanity, including the killing of a journalist, as a driver in the elite guard of former President Yahya Jammeh, Germany’s federal prosecutor said. The Federal Public Prosecutor General (GBA) identified the suspect as Bai L., under …

The High Court in Kenya is due to rule today (Wednesday) on whether to decriminalise female genital mutilation for adult women. The case is in response to a 2017 petition by a doctor who argued that banning the practice was unconstitutional as women had the right to choose what to …

Gunmen on motorbikes stormed a primary school in the northwestern Nigerian state of Kaduna and kidnapped three teachers but no children, a state official said on Monday after the fifth school abduction in three months. It was the first attack on an elementary school in a wave of such attacks …

Tanzania’s exiled opposition leader, Tundu Lissu, says plans are underway for an official declaration of the status of missing president John Pombe Magufuli. “The countdown to official declaration seems to be well underway. Military parade vehicles in the streets of Dar es Salaam,” he posted in a tweet accompanied by …

A pregnant woman has allegedly hacked her husband to death over an alleged extramarital affair in Delta. The incident happened on Monday, March 15, at Ekrejebor axis of Ughelli town in Ughelli North Local Government Area of the state. It was gathered that the 22-year-old woman identified as Faith Okiemute …

Tanzania president John Pombe Magufuli is partially paralyzed and on life support, an exiled opposition leader has alleged in a Twitter post. According to Lissu, his sources in the Tanzania Intelligence and Security Service, TISS, had informed him that the president’s condition was worsening. “VP Samia suggested today that the …

The Vatican said on Monday that priests and other Catholic Church ministers cannot bless same-sex unions and that such blessings are “not licit” if carried out. The Vatican’s doctrinal office, the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith (CDF), issued the ruling in response to questions and moves in some …

An unknown number of school children and teachers have been kidnapped by gunmen from a primary school in Nigeria in a fresh attack in the north of the country, local authorities said in a statement on Monday. It is not yet been specified how many were abducted from the school …

Here is a full list of winners in categories at the 63rd annual Grammy Awards, which were handed out on Sunday in Los Angeles. Beyonce had a big night, winning four prizes and thereby breaking the record for the most-ever Grammy wins by a female artist, and the most by …