The mangled wreckage of the bus. NAIROBI, Oct 5 (NNN-AGENCIES) — At least 13 people have been killed and others injured after a bus collided with a truck in a town near the lakeside city of Kisumu. The accident happened on Thursday night in Awasi town, 42km away from Kisumu.…

Eritrea’s Under-20 team KAMPALA, Oct 5 (NNN-AGENCIES) — Authorities in Uganda are searching for five Eritreans who disappeared from a hotel where their team was playing in the regional Cecafa Under-20 Challenge Cup tournament. The missing players could be planning to seek asylum, which some Eritrean sports players have done…

KADUNA (Nigeria), Oct 5 (NNN-AGENCIES) — The people behind the kidnapping of six female secondary school students and two members of staff in Kaduna state in the north of Nigeria have demanded a ransom, the state governor said. The kidnappings happened before dawn on Thursday at the Engravers College –…

ACCRA, Oct 5 (NNN-GNA) — Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) will rocket up from the world’s 16th most populous country in 2019 to ninth place by 2050, according to the Population Reference Bureau’s (PRB) 2019 World Population Data Sheet. According to the PRB’s data copied to the Ghana News…

KAMPALA, Oct 5 (NNN-AGENCIES) — Ugandan security personnel detained six supporters of pop star and presidential hopeful Bobi Wine for wearing red berets, a banned symbol of his “People Power” pressure group, a spokesman for the movement said. Wine, 37, whose real name is Robert Kyagulanyi, has rattled the government…

KADUNA, Oct 5 (NNN-AGENCIES) — Gunmen kidnapped six schoolgirls and two staff members from a boarding school in northern Nigeria on Thursday, police said. Police said the girls and staff were taken in the early morning from a school called Engravers College in a remote area near the village of…

A boy walks past the remains of a village burnt down by Boko Haram on the outskirts of Maiduguri  MAIDUGURI (Nigeria), Oct 5 (NNN-AGENCIES) — The Nigerian army released 25 children on Thursday after clearing them of suspected ties with armed groups in the country’s restive northeast region, the United…

YAOUNDE, Oct 5 (NNN-AGENCIES) — Cameroon’s President Paul Biya announced he had ordered prosecutions to be dropped against “some” opposition leaders, including a number from the main Movement for the Rebirth of Cameroon (MRC) led by his jailed rival Maurice Kamto. The move is the latest in a series of…