ABUJA, July 12 (NNN-AGENCIES) — Nigerian police fired guns and tear gas in a Thursday clash with a protesting group of Shiites in the capital Abuja, witnesses said, just two days after a peaceful protest turned violent just outside the parliament.Witnesses saw policemen fired their weapons in an effort to…

PRETORIA, July 12 (NNN-GNA) — South Africa will harshly punish employers who employ undocumented foreign nationals, Home Affairs Deputy Minister Njabulo Bheka has warned.“We will curb the appetite of employers to employ undocumented foreign nationals all in the name of profits,” Bheka said while delivering his department’s 2019/20 budget in…

MBABANE, July 12 (NNN-AGENCIES) — Eswatini has banned a competition of “witchcraft and magic spells”, a government statement said.“Anyone who will persist with any activity related to witchcraft will face the full might of the law,” government spokesman Percy Simelane said.People in the country, formerly known as Swaziland, could not…

UNITED NATIONS, July 12 (NNN-AGENCIES) — UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres says the current fight against terror in West Africa’s Sahel region is insufficient. He was speaking at a UN summit on counter-terrorism, where he urged donors to do more to support military and developmental efforts to stop violent extremism.…

ABUJA, July 12 (NNN-AGENCIES) — Authorities in Nigeria say agricultural insecticides, which have been linked to recent cases of people killing themselves, will no longer be sold in shops from September.Most of these high-strength insecticides can easily be bought in shops and from hawkers, but the regulatory agency, Nafdac, has…

ABUJA, July 12 (NNN-GNA) — The population of Africa’s most populous country Nigeria population has hit about 190 million, a figure which negates the one earlier given by the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA).Head of the National Population Commission (NPC) Ghaji Ismail told a press conference that it arrived at…

BENGHAZI (Italy), July 12 (NNN-AGENCIES) — At least four people were killed and 33 wounded when two car bombs exploded at a funeral for a former special forces commander in the eastern Libyan city of Benghazi. Those killed in Thursday’s blast were two civilians and two soldiers, while soldiers, police,…

YAOUNDE, July 11 (NNN-Xinhua) — Cameroon’s Minister of Territorial Administration Paul Atanga Nji praised traditional rulers in three northern regions of the country for appointing women for the first time ever to head important traditional positions. “This is an innovation. Everybody knows that chieftaincy is a kind of conservative organization…

ALGIERS, July 11 (NNN-Xinhua) — The Algerian parliament late on Wednesday elected unanimously Slimane Chenine, an Islamist-oriented lawmaker, as the new speaker of the People’s National Assembly, lower house of the parliament. Chenine was elected to replace Mouad Bouchareb, who resigned a week ago. The election was broadcast live on…