Students of the University of Education, Winneba (UEW), are in black and red clothes to mourn their colleagues who died in Asuboi accident over the weekend. Some of the students, who spoke to Adom News, expressed their emotions after the news broke. The accident, which occurred on Sunday morning, reportedly claimed the lives …
Read More »PHOTOS: Mass graves in Ukraine: Battered cities are digging makeshift burial sites
The Russian bombardment of some places in Ukraine is so intense that towns and cities are being forced to unceremoniously bury dozens of civilian victims in mass graves. Nowhere is this grim reality of war more apparent than in Mariupol, a key port city devastated by constant shelling, where several burial …
Read More »Two survive timber truck accident in Kumasi
Two persons escaped death by a whisker at Patase Mango- down in the Kumasi Metropolis of the Ashanti Region Monday afternoon, after a timber truck loaded with three heavy logs rammed into their Toyota Camry car. The incident which threw the community into a state of shock happened when the …
Read More »Four perish in fatal car crash at Peki
Four persons have died in a car crash at Peki Avetile in the South Dayi district of the Volta region. The fatal accident which occurred today, Monday 14 March, 2022 at about 12:15am involves a Mercedes-Benz bus and a Renault Cargo truck. A statement issued by the Volta Regional Command …
Read More »Shisha smoking banned in Cameroon
Cameroon has banned the smoking of shisha pipes, saying it poses a health risk to the mostly young people who use it in bars and at home. About 46% of young Cameroonians smoke the substance according to the health ministry – which is typically a mix of tobacco, molasses, glycerine …
Read More »Tamale residents cry after sleeping in darkness for many days
The residents of Kpane, a farming community in the Sagnerigu municipality of the Northern region, have appealed to the Volta River Authority(VRA) and the Northern Electricity Distribution Company(NEDco) to have mercy on them and fix their faulty transformer which has thrown them into darkness for many days. The residents who …
Read More »Fifty feared killed in Ethiopia clashes
More than 50 people are feared to have been killed in clashes in Western Ethiopia after an armed group ambushed a convoy in Benishangul-Gumuz, Reuters news agency reports. The attack happened in early March near the town of Metekel, the Ethiopian Human Rights Commission said. At least 20 soldiers were …
Read More »Death toll in DR Congo train accident climbs to 75
The number of people known to have died in a train crash in the Democratic Republic of Congo has risen to 75. The train derailed and fell into a ditch in the south-eastern village of Buyofwe on Thursday. It was a freight service but carried hundreds of stowaways. The information …
Read More »Two dead in accident at Odododiodio
Two people have died, while about six others sustained various degrees of injury in an accident that occurred at the Mudor traffic area in the Greater Accra Region. The two were part of passengers in a Mercedes Benz bus and a Toyota saloon car that collided at the traffic intersection. …
Read More »Bride in coma, as groom crashes to death on his way to their wedding
It was his advertised wedding day and it was supposed to be, as it usually is, one of his happiest days – a day he would share with his bride but luck eluded them in the most disastrous way. Today, March 14, 2022, the death of Mohammed Zakari, the groom, …
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