India's top court on Tuesday banned a controversial Islamic practice that allows men to divorce their wives instantly, ending a long tradition that many Muslim women had fiercely opposed.
Nigeria appears to be skeptical about Morocco's bid to join the West African Sub-regional body ECOWAS and is reluctant in seeing it gain a membership, DW reports.
Spanish police have confirmed the man shot in an operation outside Barcelona is Younes Abouyaaqoub - the chief suspect in the van attack in the city last Thursday.
Police in South Africa have arrested three suspected cannibals, according to local media reports. One of the suspects walked to the police to claiming he was “tired of eating human flesh.”
Nigerians residing in a Ghanaian community of Sowutuom are reportedly fleeing the community over fears of being attacked by Ghanaians, according to officials of the Nigerian community living in Ghana.
Two Switzerland nationals have been murdered in Kenya’s Mombasa town of Kiembeni. The two, an elderly couple were found murdered after arriving in Mombasa from Switzerland, according to officials.
Zimbabwe’s Vice President, Emmerson Mnangagwa is reported to have suffered minor liver damage after doctors in South Africa detected traces of palladium poison in him.
