AFRICA

KwaZulu-Natal police are searching for a Grade 1 Umhlali Preparatory School pupil who was allegedly abducted from the back of her mother’s car on Sunday. Police opened a kidnapping case after six-year-old Alexia Nyamadzawo was snatched when her mother slowed down at a speed bump in Glendale Road, Shayamoya, near …

A former Nigerian soldier has shared the sad story of how his mother was raped by a neighbor in the barracks where he lived. Sharing his story via his Twitter handle @FestusNG, the former soldier said when he was still serving in 146 Batallion, his mum paid him a visit …

Popular Reggae Nigeria music legend, songwriter, Majek Fashek is reportedly dead, Aged 57, NAIJA LIVE TV gathers. His death was announced by Joy Tongo former artiste manager to Cynthia Morgan on her Instagram handle @joytongo. She posted: “Legendary musician, Mr. Majek Fashek, my uncle passed on today in New York City.” He is best …

The handcuffed unarmed black man who died in police custody after a former police officer kneeled on his neck for nearly nine minutes was killed by “asphyxiation from sustained pressure,” an independent autopsy found on Monday. Drs. Michael Baden and Allecia Wilson determined George Floyd’s death “was a homicide caused …

A twelve-year-old girl has told Jigawa State Police Command how a 57-year-old man and 11 others turned her into a sex-machine. “They hid me, repeatedly had sex with me and gave me peanuts,” she alleged. The BBC Hausa Service said in a report monitored by Vanguard on Monday that the …

Rwanda is banning the use of charcoal for cooking in the capital, Kigali, and restricting supplies to the city from rural areas. The ban is aimed at protecting forests by clamping down on the illegal trade in charcoal. In future people will be encouraged to use gas. Rwanda follows Kenya …

A 72-year-old woman died after she was alleged to have been knocked down by a beer truck at a busy street in King William’s Town on Monday. Eastern Cape provincial police spokesperson Colonel Sibongile Soci said the incident took place on Cathcart Road at 10:00. While reports suggested that the …

New cases of Ebola have been confirmed in the Democratic Republic of Congo. Health Minister Eteni Longondo said four people had died from the virus in the western city of Mbandaka, which has a population of about a million people. It is more than 1,000km (about 600 miles) from the …

A Cameroonian journalist working for the German broadcaster Deutsche Welle is receiving treatment after being beaten by soldiers in country’s Anglophone area where separatists are fighting for independence. Jean-Marie Ngong Song “is in serious pain with hearing difficulties” after the incident on Sunday evening in the north-western town of Bambili, the …

Mozambique’s government says 78 Islamist insurgents have been killed in fighting with the security forces over the past few days. The army launched an offensive after the jihadists seized Macomia in the north of the country, the third town to be overrun by the militants in recent months. Defence Minister …