Gunmen stormed a hostel in Saulsville, 18 kilometres west of Pretoria, on Saturday, killing 11 people, including a three-year-old child, South African police said. The attack is the latest in a string of mass shootings that have shaken the country of 63 million, South Africa Broadcasting News reports. Police spokeswoman Athlenda Mathe said: “I can…
Authorities in the UAE have discovered the bodies of Russian cryptocurrency scammers Roman Novak and his wife, Anna, who were k+lled in October. According to Russian media outlet 47news on December 1, the remains were buried in thick plastic bags in a remote desert area following the detention of several suspects linked to the double…
Police are investigating an incident where a fight between a man and his girlfriend ended tragically when the man died after falling from the 14th floor of an apartment along Kindaruma Road, Kilimani Nairobi, Kenya. The body of the deceased was found sprawled on the rooftop of a parked salon car moments after his fall…
Cameroonian opposition figure, Anicet Ekan, on Monday, died in detention in Yaounde, the vice president of his party told AFP. “Anicet Ekane died this morning in Yaounde, where he had been transferred after his arrest at the end of October in Douala,” Valentin Dongmo of the African Movement for the New Independence of Cameroon (Manidem)…
Four people were killed and 10 wounded in a shooting at a family gathering in California on Saturday night, US police said, calling it a “targeted incident.” The shooting took place inside a banquet hall in Stockton, northeast of San Francisco, just before 6:00 pm, San Joaquin County Sheriff’s office spokesperson Heather Brent told reporters…
No fewer than 50 Nigerians have been arrested in one of India’s largest coordinated operations targeting a transnational narcotics network. The suspects were believed to be linked to a sprawling drug-distribution and hawala-laundering syndicate operating across several major Indian cities. According to a report by NDTV on Thursday, the crackdown was led by the Delhi…
A devastating fire tore through a residential complex in Hong Kong, killing at least 55 people and injuring many others. The flames spread rapidly via bamboo scaffolding, forcing around 700 residents to evacuate. The blaze engulfed seven apartment blocks in the Tai Po district of the New Territories on Wednesday, with over 200 people still…
Gunfire erupted in Bissau on Wednesday as Guinea-Bissau’s President, Umaro Embaló, said he was arrested around 1 p.m. inside his office at the presidential palace, describing the incident as an unfolding coup d’état, according to The Africa Report. Embaló, who contested last Sunday’s presidential election and claims, by his own tally, to have secured 65…
Peter Ngumba, a Kenyan lab doctor known for popularizing DNA tests among men has broke down into tears after discovering he is not the father of his two-year-old child. Ngumba shared the emotional revelation in a candid video which went viral online. The news generated significant public reaction in Kenya, largely due to Ngumba’s public…
Suspected jihadists on Friday attacked and seized control of the Gendarmerie Camp in Garbougna, Niger Republic, killing more than 21 gendarmes, according to security sources. The attackers, believed to be affiliated with Sahel-based extremist groups, stormed the facility in large numbers, overwhelming security personnel during the early morning assault. Sources told Zagazola Makama, a counter…