Ghana’s parliament on Thursday hold the first public hearing on a new law that would make it illegal to be gay or to advocate for gay rights, its press office said. The so-called family values bill is currently before the Committee on Constitutional, Legal and Parliamentary Affairs, which said...
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At least 11 students were injured on Wednesday when an improvised explosive device (IED) exploded on a university campus in Cameroon’s restive Anglophone region of Southwest, according to witnesses and authorities. The explosion in the University of Buea happened at about 3:30 p.m. local time in one of the...
No fewer than 70 drivers working for the United Nations and international aid organisations were detained in northern Ethiopia, a UN spokesperson confirmed to dpa on Wednesday. The drivers were apprehended on Nov. 3, in the city of Semera in the Afar Region, the official said, adding that the...
The UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) has said no fewer than 11,000 people had fled into neighbouring Uganda from the eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo clashes since Sunday. UNHCR spokesperson, Shabia Mantoo said in Geneva, on Tuesday, that the figure (11,000) represented the largest refugee influx in...
A US woman and her husband are suing a fertility clinic they say implanted a stranger’s baby, lawyers said Monday. When Daphna and Alexander Cardinale first saw their newborn, conceived through IVF, they noticed the baby girl had jet-black hair and a much darker complexion than anyone in their...
Iran’s Army intercepted two U.S. drones and warned them to stay aloof from the zones where it was carrying out the Zolfaqar-1400 military drills. The army’s media bureau said in a statement on Tuesday, that the U.S. aircraft, including MQ-9 and RQ-4 drones, intruded into the country’s Flight Information...
No fewer than 26 school children aged between five and six burnt to death on Monday when their straw and wood classrooms caught fire in southern Niger, seven months after a similar tragedy in the capital Niamey. “Right now, we have 26 dead and 13 injured, four of them...
By DAVID IORJA, Abuja – The Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) has resolved to maintain the sanctions it imposed on Guinea, while imposing similar ones against the Transitional Government in Mali. The resolution was part of the outcomes of the ECOWAS Extraordinary summit of the Authority of...
At least 18 people died when an artisanal goldmine collapsed in southern Niger near the border with Nigeria, the local mayor said on Monday. “The provisional death toll is 18 people, whom we buried this morning,” Adamou Gueraou, mayor of Dan-Issa district, told AFP of Sunday’s disaster. “There were...
Sierra Leone Government has requested international medical aid for its overburdened hospitals in the wake of a fuel tanker blast in the capital Freetown that killed more than 100 people. “We desperately need medical material for critical burns cases,” Dr. Moses Batima, deputy director general of the health ministry’s...
The West African regional grouping ECOWAS on Sunday hardened its stance against military-ruled Mali and Guinea, imposing new individual sanctions and calling on both countries to honour timetables for a return to democracy. The Economic Community of West African States “has decided to sanction all those implicated in the...
Sierra Leonean President Julius Maada Bio has declared three days of national mourning from Monday to Wednesday for the 108 lives lost in a fuel tanker explosion here. During his visit to hospitals treating the victims, Bio said a presidential task force will be set up in the coming...
UN has commiserated with the government and people of Sierra Leone over the explosion of a petroleum tanker in Freetown. UN Secretary-General António Guterres, joined the whole UN system in Sierra Leone in mourning the victims of a fuel tanker collision on Friday night in the capital. Guterres, in...
The Liberian government has announced a total of $15,000 cash reward for any useful information for the arrest of perpetrators of recent high-profile murders in Monrovia. Mr Ledgerhood Rennie, Liberia’s Minister of Information and Culture disclosed this in a statement made available to the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN)...
By DAVID IORJA, Abuja – President Muhammadu Buhari would be represented by Vice President Yemi Osinbajo at an Extra-ordinary Summit of the ECOWAS Authority of Heads of State and Government today in Accra, Ghana on the political situation in the Republics of Guinea and Mali. Today’s Extraordinary meeting, which...
At least 19 people were killed and three injured Saturday in an accident on the highway that connects Mexico City with the central city of Puebla, authorities said. The crash occurred at midday when a cargo truck crashed into several vehicles at a toll booth on the highway. Some...
Mrs Edith Onyemenam, Assistant Comptroller, Nigeria Immigration Service (NIS), says the signing of a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) between Nigeria and Cote d’Ivoire on consular services is commendable. Onyemenam spoke with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) on the side-lines of the high level segment of the Second Session...
The Presidency Council of Libya on Saturday suspended Foreign Minister Najla Mangoush and temporarily banned her from travelling over mismanagement allegation, but the decision was rejected by the government. Najla Mangoush “shall be temporarily suspended for investigation into reported mismanagement, mainly monopoly of foreign policy without prior coordination with...
Iraqi Prime Minister Mustafa al-Kadhimi was unharmed in an assassination attempt carried out by a drone targeting his official residence on Sunday, the Iraqi military said. The media office of the Iraqi Joint Operations Command said in a statement that an unknown drone bomb hit al-Kadhimi’s residency at dawn...