According to a report published in September 2020, fifty-six women were repeatedly raped during a three-day mutiny at Kasapa jail, Lubumbashi, a province in the Democratic Republic Of Congo. Three of the women were infected with HIV (which causes AIDS) and 16 became pregnant after the assault, according to lawyers for the victims. A court […]Read More
The National Bureau of Statistics has disclosed that a total of 3,121 persons were killed in road accidents in the first six months of 2021. The NBS in its Road Transport Data report released said that a total of 6,486 road crashes occurred within the review period, consisting of 3,301 and 3,185 cases recorded in […]Read More
A humanitarian organization known as Sea-Watch has said its sip on the Mediterranean sea has rescued no less than 450 migrants in five operations over the Christmas period. The Sea-Watch 3, owned by a German charity, initially rescued nearly 100 migrants from sinking boats in the Mediterranean overnight on Thursday with reports of severe “fuel burns” […]Read More
Maritime officials have said the death toll from a shipwreck off the coast of Madagascar this week has risen to 85. Maritime authorities said 138 people were on the 12-foot-long (3.6-metre) boat carrying cargo which sank on Monday, adding that only 50 had been rescued. The wooden vessel, a cargo boat not authorised to carry passengers, had […]Read More
Olanrewaju Anjorin, a spokesman of the Oyo correctional centre in Oyo state, has reported a jailbreak after gunmen attacked the facility on Friday night. The spokesman told The Associated Press news agency on Saturday that the centre could not ascertain the number of prisoners that escaped during the attack. “I can’t ascertain the number of […]Read More
Provincial authorities in the Democratic Republic of Congo have reported a casualty of 51 persons and over 70 others missing after a ship capsized in the Congo River on October 4, 2021. 51 bodies were recovered late on Friday from the boat that sank during the night of Monday to Tuesday, according to Nestor Magbado, […]Read More
UN reports that about 623,000 people have been forced to leave their homes by widespread flooding in South Sudan since May. According to the report by the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA), rivers broke their banks following heavy rains, filling houses and farms in eight of the country’s 10 states. […]Read More
Heavy rains causing floods have washed away over 1500 houses in the Goma region of the Democratic Republic of Congo. Authorities in the area linked the recent eruption of Mount Nyiragongo in the area to have promoted the flooding given that vegetation was wiped out. “It was raining and we were in our houses preparing […]Read More
Authorities in Algeria have linked last week’s outbreak to a brutal mob killing and burning of a man in a town in Algeria’s Kabyle region. A man identified as Djamel Ben Ismail, 38, was lynched and burnt to death outside a police station on the main square in the town of Larbaa Nath Irathen, a village […]Read More
Nearly two years after the Minister for Works and Housing Babatunde Fashola announced the re-introduction of toll plazas on federal roads, the Federal Government has now approved a toll payment plan across the country. The ministry revealed that the payment plan is part of a Federal Roads and Bridges Tolling Policy and Regulations approved by […]Read More
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