AFRICA

At least 14 people from sub-Saharan African countries have drowned in Tunisia as they tried to reach Europe by boat in the latest tragedy on the Mediterranean Sea. Tunisia’s coastguard said in a statement on Thursday that officers the previous night had intercepted “a group whose boat had sunk, rescuing …

A woman is being hunted by police after she was filmed browsing a library wearing nothing but a face mask.   A viral four-second video shows the unidentified woman stripping off in what appears to be the Central Library in Hong Kong before posing naked for a camera.     …

The body of a missing 15-year-old girl, Karabo Monyama, was buried in a shallow grave in the backyard of her 23-year-old boyfriend’s home in South Africa. Police spokesperson Lt-Col Amanda Funani, who confirmed the development in a statement, said Monyama’s body was discovered on Wednesday, March 8, 2023. Funani said …

At least 10 passengers were burnt to death in an auto crash along the Oyo-Ogbomoso road on Thursday, March 9, 2023. The Sector Commander of the Federal Road Safety Corps (FRSC) in the state, Joshua Adekanye, who confirmed the incident to journalists in Ibadan, said the crash involving a Mazda …

Tanzania’s president has said her country’s East African neighbours are facing a foreign currency reserve crisis. President Samia Suluhu Hassan said Tanzania had received requests to offer guarantees for their fuel imports. She made the remarks on Wednesday while discussing Tanzania’s economic footing. Quote Message: We have [foreign currency] reserves …

The UN Security Council has extended sanctions and an arms embargo against Sudan by a year. The 15-member council voted to renew the mandate of the panel of experts charged with monitoring and implementing the sanctions and embargo until 12 March next year. Thirteen countries voted in favour of the …

An accident has occurred at the PWD area of Lagos state. Report indicate that a passenger train crushed a Lagos State Government staff bus around 7am on Thursday. An unspecified number of people have been reported dead and many injured. Spokesperson for the Lagos State Traffic Management Authority, Taofiq Adebayo, …

Ugandan police have declared the Entebbe Expressway safe after a bomb scare earlier Wednesday morning. “Update! Entebbe Expressway now open for public use,” the police tweeted after the bomb squad was sent to investigate an object suspected to be an explosive. Ugandans woke up to a terror scare on the …

An Ikeja Magistrate’s Court sitting in Ogba, Lagos State remanded a teenager for allegedly raping a five-year-old girl during the presidential and National Assembly elections in the state. Magistrate Mrs B. O. Osusanmi remanded the defendant Tosin Oloyede on Wednesday,  March 8, at the Special Correctional Centre for Boys in …

The United Nations says about 100,000 people have fled into Ethiopia from the self-declared republic of Somaliland in the past month. Many others are internally displaced following fighting in the disputed city of Las Anod which has killed more than 200 people. The UN said the refugees have gathered in …