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Somali militant group Al-Shabaab is targeting telecommunications infrastructure in areas where a concerted military effort is removing them from the villages, officials said on Tuesday. Somalia’s biggest telecom firm Hormuud said its infrastructure in Galmuduug, Central Somalia, had been destroyed in an apparent futile bid to limit communication and coordination …

‘Last December, I lost the ability to write. I showed my husband my nonsensical scribble on our holiday cards. ‘I don’t know what’s happening to me,’ I sobbed.’ I have months to live, perhaps two, perhaps some other number, the doctors won’t tell me. They can’t. They do not know. …

The SABC’s Metro FM news presenter Pearl Shongwe has passed on. It is understood she died at her Polo Fields home north of Johannesburg. Details are still sketchy at the moment. The newsreader also presented sport on SABC’s 404 News channel and Morning Live on weekends alongside Simphiwe Ncongwane. A …

In April 2022, the sentencing of Mubarak Bala sent shockwaves internationally. The outspoken Nigerian atheist was sentenced to 24 years in prison after pleading guilty to charges related to blaspheming Islam. What followed is a landmark case that has placed the threats to freedom of religion and expression in Nigeria …

Two Tiktok stars in in Nigeria’s Kano State have been found guilty of defaming state governor Abdullahi Umar Ganduje. The magistrate’s court also found them of engaging in actions that could disturb public peace. The sentence included offering a public apology to the governor, being given 20 lashes each, an …

A Kenyan police officer and two airport workers have been commended after they returned a bag that contained around $19,000 (£17,000) and other items that belonged to a British tourist. According to BBC, the tourist, identified as Benson Nickolson, misplaced the bag at the Wilson Airport in the East African …

A  45 year old woman and her 51 year old husband are in the police custody over punishment they meted out to their 21-year-old daughter. Mrs. Adioke Nasali and her husband Paul Nkejinke compelled their daughter, Soli Hawa to bath her own va_gina with hot pepper🌶️. In the video available …

Police in Mubende District are investigating circumstances under which a Senior One student at Kasenyi Secondary School committed suicide According to police preliminary investigations, Julius Ssekiziyivu, 15, a day scholar hanged himself a few minutes after returning from school for reasons not yet established. By the time Sekiziyivu committed suicide, …

Syphilis is another serious transmitted disease that has the tendency of becoming deadly if not treated beforehand. As far back 1963, WHO found Lagos to be the highest carrier of gonorrhea in the world. Decades after, it has been made known through available data that the rate at which sexually …

Elon Musk says Twitter users engaging in impersonation without clearly specifying it as a parody account will be permanently suspended. Twitter previously issued a warning before suspending accounts, but there would now be no warning, he announced. A number of accounts that changed their name to Elon Musk and mocked …