AFRICA

Efforts to retrieve the body of a man who drowned after a boat accident along the Ganaola crossing channel in Mikindani continued Saturday 24 hours after it capsized. Samuel Tsui was among nine other passengers aboard the ill-fated boat when the incident happened. Family, friends and relatives have camped along …

A mentally-disabled man and woman were spotted somewhere in Edo state in Nigeria celebrating Valentine’s Day. In the photos posted on Facebook, the couple are seen kissing in public with the man holding her by the waist. More photos below: A mentally-disabled man and woman were spotted somewhere in Edo …

Two boys identified as Inusa and Ibrahim have contested in an election to win a girl, Khadijah, they both fell in love with in a Bauchi community. Reports say that Khadijah had requested for the election which was conducted by elders of Giade town in Bauchi State. Inusa reportedly scored …

More than 6,000 bodies from the victims of a protracted civil war have been discovered in Burundi. The bodies were discovered in six mass graves in Karusi Province – the largest finding since the government launched a nationwide excavation in January. Pierre Claver Ndayicariye, chairman of the country’s truth and …

A policewoman, who allegedly clutched the private parts of a mechanic, Ikwunado Chima, while he was being tortured in detention has been arrested and detained by the Rivers State Police Command. The late Chima met his untimely death in police custody on December 23, 2019, four days after he was …

No fewer than three suspected armed robbers were shot dead while two others were arrested alive by Anambra state police Puff-Adder operatives in conjunction with patrol team attached to Fegge Division at Federal Housing Estates Fegge, Onitsha. The armed robbers allegedly attacked one Nmandi of Chisco Park Upper Iweka in …

Armed men killed four police officers and wounded another four as they freed a leader of the notorious MS-13 gang from a court in Honduras, authorities said. Around 20 gang members opened fire Thursday outside a court in El Progreso, around 140 kilometres (87 miles) north of the capital Tegucigalpa, …

The running battle between a couple in Ladi-Lak, Bariga area of Lagos State, has ended on a tragic note as the husband, John Onyeme, reportedly beat his wife to death. City Round learnt that the deceased, Esther Onyeme, was a deaconess and proprietress of a nursery and primary school in …

At least 30 people, including nine soldiers, have been killed in three separate incidents in Mali. Twenty one were killed when gunmen attacked a village in central Mali, burning houses, crops and livestock. A group of eight soldiers also died in an ambush, while another was killed during an attack …

Abubakar Shekau, leader of the Boko Haram sect, has given a condition under which the remaining Chibok schoolgirls in captivity will be released. More than 100 of the 276 girls abducted from Government Secondary School, Chibok, Borno state, in 2014, have remained in Boko Haram custody. In a video, the …