AFRICA

People in Uganda’s northern district of Kitgum are eating desert locusts that have devoured their crops, according to Uganda Radio Network (URN) news agency. The agency reports that poor harvests in the area have forced residents to make locusts their alternative sources of food. But some were concerned about possible …

A church has been accused of refusing to officiate the burial ceremony of a man who stopped attending the church three years ago and also stopped paying tithe. A colleague’s father died and their church (name withheld) is refusing to officiate the burial. They claim he stopped attending the church …

A 50-year-old South African man, Gobela Faniyakhe from Umhlabuyalingana, northern KZN dropped jaws when he married six women the same day. He said he was initially supposed to marry eight of them, but two of the women had to postpone because they were not yet ready. He said his target …

South Africa’s firebrand opposition politician Julius Malema and his wife Mantoa Matlala have threatened to sue a governing party MP for defamation if he fails to retract allegations that Mr Malema abused his wife. African National Congress (ANC) MP Boy Mamabolo responded to the threat by tweeting: “Bring it on …

A 25-year-old man who killed his friend during a drinking spree after they differed over a woman has been sentenced to serve eight years imprisonment by a Narok High Court. Robert Kipkoroi Langat had appeared before Narok Resident Judge Justice Justus Bwonwong’a on Tuesday charged with the murder of Josphat …

WATCH LIVE: The commission of inquiry into state capture is expected to hear testimony from an unidentified witness from the State Security Agency (SSA), referred to only as Mr Y, on Thursday. The testimony is in relation to aviation. On Wednesday the commission heard testimony from SSA evaluator Nokunqoba Gloria …

Militant Islamist group Boko Haram has torched several homes and a school during a raid on a town in north-eastern Nigeria, the army says. The insurgents were heavily armed, storming the town of Korongilum on Tuesday evening in a convoy of trucks mounted with guns, as well as motorcycles. Eyewitnesses …

Said Muhammad Al-Masiri, an Imam in Kaduna has confirmed that a Kaduna based civil servant has defiled his two daughters. “He had sex with them front and back, their vaginas and anus are damaged. I gave their mother N10,000 and she took the girls to the hospital. The doctor examined …

Men of the Ogun State Police Command have arrested five suspected robbers who hid in their herbalist’s house after an operation. The suspected robbers were arrested on Tuesday after allegedly unleashing terror on residents on Akorede Estate, Olomoore, behind Crescent University, Abeokuta, on January 21, 2020. The state Police Public …

A suspected ɤap!st has been beaten to pulp by a group of Polytechnic students. They allegedly caught the suspected ɤap!st in the act of forcibly sleeping with one of the students on campus. They meted on him serious beating after catching him ɤape a student of Akwa Ibom State Polytechnic. …