Kenyan police launched a major manhunt on Tuesday after a man they claim has confessed to murdering and dismembering 42 women escaped from a Nairobi police cell, along with a dozen other detainees. Collins Jumaisi, 33, described by police as a “vampire, a psychopath”, was arrested last month after the horrific discovery of mutilated bodies […]
The brutal rape and murder of seven-year-old Heaven Awot in Bahir Dar, Ethiopia, has ignited widespread anger across the nation, with many decrying the 25-year prison sentence handed to her attacker as woefully inadequate. According to a BBC report Monday, Heaven Awot was sexually assaulted, mutilated, and killed by her mother’s landlord, Getnet Baye, in […]
Israel vowed on Sunday to “hit the enemy hard” after rocket fire from Lebanon killed 12 young people in the Israeli-annexed Golan Heights and fanned fears that the war in Gaza will spread. Iran warned Israel that any new military “adventures” in Lebanon could lead to “unforeseen consequences”. UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres condemned Saturday’s […]
Using shovels or their bare hands, local residents on Tuesday searched desperately for survivors after a landslide in a remote area of southern Ethiopia killed at least 229 people, the deadliest such disaster recorded in the Horn of Africa nation. Crowds gathered at the site of the tragedy in an isolated and mountainous area […]
At least 55 people were killed in a landslide in a remote area of southern Ethiopia on Monday, local authorities said, warning that the death toll could rise. “More than 55 bodies have been found from the landslide,” a statement from the Gofa zone Communications Affairs Department said, quoting local chief Dagmawi Zerihun, who […]
Opposition leader Bobi Wine said heavily armed security forces were besieging his party headquarters on Monday and had arrested several leaders, on the eve of a planned anti-corruption march that has been banned by the authorities. The action comes two days after President Yoweri Museveni, who has ruled the country with an iron fist […]
At least 40 migrants have died after a boat they were travelling in caught fire off the northern coast of Haiti, a UN agency said Friday, with police saying the explosion was sparked by a voodoo ritual gone wrong. The UN’s International Organization for Migration (IOM) reported that the Haitian Coast Guard rescued […]
A wealthy Chinese businessman Guo Wengui, a self-styled opponent of the authorities in Beijing, was found guilty of defrauding customers of more than $1 billion in a New York federal court on Tuesday, prosecutors said. Guo presented himself as a fierce critic of the Chinese Communist Party and a fervent defender of democracy, while […]
A Ugandan court has sentenced a 24-year-old man, Edward Awebwa to six years in prison for insulting President Yoweri Museveni and the first family through his video posted on TikTok. Awebwa was charged with hate speech and spreading “misleading and malicious” information against the President, First Lady Janet Museveni and son Muhoozi Kainerugaba, who […]
An attack blamed on jihadists in central Mali killed more than 20 civilians on Monday, two local officials said, in the latest killings in the troubled Sahel region. Mali has for over a decade been ravaged by jihadists and other armed groups, with the centre of the West African country becoming a hotbed of […]
