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The children of former Zimbabwe’s President Robert Mugabe have appealed a ruling by a traditional chief ordering the exhumation of the remains of the former leader, arguing the traditional leader has no jurisdiction on the matter. In May, Chief Zvimba gave a ruling ordering the body of Mugabe be exhumed and …

More than 100 kidnapped children have been released from captivity in Nigeria, an education official told dpa on Friday. Umar Idris, the director of the Islamic Salihu Tanko Islamiyya school in the city of Tegina in the north-western state of Niger, confirmed the news, but it was unclear whether the …

• The farmer had been married to the deceased for over a decad • She was allegedly shot with a single gun barrel • Yaw Muntom reported himself to the Prang Police A 45-year-old farmer allegedly shot his 30-year-old wife to death in Lele, a suburb of Prang in the …

Awoken by gunshots in the middle of the night, residents of Solhan were shocked by who they saw among the attackers in the town in Burkina Faso’s Sahel region: children. About 160 people were killed in June in the deadliest assault since the once peaceful West African nation was overrun …

A local chief in Tengzug in the Talensi District in the Upper East Region who is married to 47 wives and has about 240 children has disclosed how they care for each other. Speaking to Kofi Adoma Nwanwani, on Angel TV’s Anopa Bofo show, Nana, a son of the popular …

Gunmen in Nigeria have kidnapped at least 140 schoolchildren in the north-west of the country, police say. At least eight people were also abducted from the National Tuberculosis and Leprosy Centre in Zaria early on Sunday morning. Two nurses and a 12-month-old child were among those seized, said a hospital …

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About 55 per cent of children in the country foresee a bleak future and are planning to leave the country by 2040, says a study published by Child Rights International. The respondents cited jobs, education, and better standards of living elsewhere as the reasons for wanting to migrate from the …

  Two brothers died after consuming manioc, allegedly poisoned, in a field in the 11 de Novembro neighbourhood, on the outskirts of the city of Luena, in Moxico, Angola. According to the father of the victims, Lázaro Eurico, who was speaking to the press today, Monday, June 14, despite vomiting …

IMAGE COPYRIGHTREUTERSimage captionAbout 1.7 million people have been displaced since the fighting in Tigray began last November About 33,000 severely malnourished children in the Tigray region of Ethiopia are at high risk of death, the UN children’s agency Unicef has warned. Tigray has been devastated by fighting between government forces …