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Nigeria: Court orders detention of activist, Omoyele Sowore

A Nigerian High Court has ordered the detention of publisher of online news organisation, SaharaReporters, Omoyele Sowore, for 45 days. Sowore is a well known...

Nigeria: Students taking selfies blamed for bridge collapse

Authorities of a northern Nigerian university have blamed students for the collapse of a bridge after they posed to take selfies on it. The deadly...

Ghana: Unidentified gunmen seize 4 Indians, 2 Ghanaians

Unidentified security operatives in Ghana have seized four Indian businessmen in a dawn operation in a town called Ahodwo near Kumasi in the country's...

Ghana downplays severity of illegal rosewood trade

Ghanaian officials appear to be downplaying the severity of the illegal logging of rosewood in the country. Rosewood has been classified as endangered plant given...

Nigeria: Soldiers kill three policemen in deadly attack

Some unidentified soldiers in Nigeria have shot dead three police officers in a deadly attack. The soldiers also killed a civilian in the attack carried...

Sierra Leone: Floods kill 7, over 8,000 rendered homeless

Disaster Management Officials in Sierra Leone have confirmed the death of at least seven people due to flooding. Over 8,000 people are also known to...

Nigerian musician Tekno arrested for ‘strip dance’ video

A Nigerian musician, Tekno, 26, has been arrested after video of him dancing with "half-naked" women in a truck in Lagos went viral. In a...

Gambia defends release of Jammeh assassins after outrage

Gambia’s government has defended its decision to release three soldiers who worked as assassins for former leader, Yahya Jammeh. Malick Jatta, Omar A Jallow and...

Gambia releases new bank notes without Jammeh’s portrait

Gambia on Tuesday officially released new bank notes that will be without the portrait of the former President Yahya Jammeh. On Monday the Gambian central...

Nigerian teacher who raped, sodomised 35 boys jailed

A Nigerian Islamic teacher has been jailed seven years by a Magistrate Court in Minna for raping and having anal sex with 35 of...

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