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November 24, 2025
Louisa Afful
African Stories

TikToker in Court for Allegedly Staging Fake Kidnapping to Boost Online Popularity

The Edo State Police Command has taken a 24-year-old TikTok content creator, Osarobo Omoyemen, before the court over claims that she orchestrated her own “kidnapping” in an attempt to...

November 23, 2025
Louisa Afful
African Stories

Africa Calls for Tripling Adaptation Finance by 2030

UN Secretary-General António Guterres has urged governments to deliver a balanced and actionable climate agreement at COP30, one that ensures credible emissions reductions, concrete adaptation funding, and reliable financial...

November 23, 2025
Louisa Afful
African Stories

Students Taken in, Attack on Catholic School in Central Nigeria

A number of students have been abducted from a Catholic school in central Nigeria, marking the second mass kidnapping of students in the country within a week. The incident...

November 15, 2025
Louisa Afful
African Stories

Africa Faces Worst Cholera Outbreak in 25 Years, Africa CDC Reports

Africa is grappling with its most severe cholera outbreak in a quarter-century, the Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention (Africa CDC) has reported, attributing the surge to fragile...

November 15, 2025
Louisa Afful
African Stories

Nigeria Scraps Mother-Tongue Teaching Policy, Reinstates English as Medium of Instruction

The Nigerian government has reversed a major education reform, cancelling a policy that required indigenous languages to be used as the medium of teaching in early primary education. The...

November 10, 2025
Louisa Afful
African Stories

Alban Bagbin Takes Helm of African Legislators’ Anti-Corruption Network

Speaker of Parliament, Alban Sumana Kingsford Bagbin, has been elected President of the African Parliamentarians’ Network Against Corruption (APNAC) during its 9th Biennial General Meeting held in Accra. Assuming...

November 8, 2025
Louisa Afful
African Stories

AU Backs Nigeria’s Sovereignty, Rejects US Allegations of Religious Persecution

The African Union Commission (AUC) has reaffirmed its unwavering support for Nigeria’s sovereignty, unity, and religious freedom, amid recent criticisms from the United States accusing the Nigerian government of...

November 8, 2025
Louisa Afful
African Stories

Mankessim Defilement Case: Eric Asamoah Sentenced to 16 Years in Prison

The Circuit Court Two in Cape Coast has sentenced Eric Asamoah to sixteen (16) years imprisonment with hard labour after he pleaded guilty to defilement charges. The case, which...

November 7, 2025
Louisa Afful
African Stories

Young South Africans Stranded in Donbas After Joining Foreign Fighters — Ramaphosa Orders Investigation

Seventeen South African men who travelled to Ukraine to join foreign fighting groups have called for help after becoming trapped in the increasingly dangerous Donbas region, the government said...

November 6, 2025
Louisa Afful
African Stories

Boeing Reaches Settlement with Families of Three Ethiopian Airlines Crash Victims

Boeing has reached settlements in three lawsuits filed by the families of victims who died in the March 2019 Ethiopian Airlines Boeing 737 MAX crash, attorneys representing the families...