The Cinema Exhibitors Association of Nigeria (CEAN), the country’s premier Film Trade Association Body, has announced good news for cinema lovers on the occasion of the International Cinema Day. Opeyemi Ajayi, the chairman of the Cinema Exhibitors Association of Nigeria (CEAN), said in a statement on Tuesday in Lagos that cinema lovers would enjoy discounted […]
A British man has died at a Spanish hotel in a fall that killed another man, according to reports. A Foreign and Commonwealth Office spokesman said officials were supporting the family of a British national in Spain after a death at the Melia Don Pepe Hotel in Marbella. The spokesman said: “We are supporting the […]
A 35-year-old man, Mr Christian Alisigwe from Ihite Azia, Ihiala local government area of Anambra State has killed his four-year-old son. KnowAfrika gathered that he butchered him with a cutlass. Police authorities, who are working to unravel the reason for the action, said the four-year-old, Ebubechukwu Alisigwe was buried by the suspect after the action. […]
A 60-year-old surfer was attacked and killed by a 3-meter (10-foot) shark off the coast of northern New South Wales state on Sunday, Australian police said. Several people tried to help the surfer and fought off the shark before taking the injured man to shore at Salt Beach in South Kingscliff, police said. He was […]
It took a little while, but karma caught up with 38-year-old Johnson Emmanuel who allegedly killed and buried a 55-year old woman in his backyard at Wumba Community in Apo area of the Federal Capital Territory, Abuja. Police operatives attached to the Intelligence Response Unit of the Nigeria Police Force arrested him, earlier this week, […]
Journalists in Cameroon have taken to the streets of Buea in the South west region to protest and demand an account of their missing colleague, Samuel Wazizi, after local media reported he had died in military custody. Wazizi, was arrested in August 2019. for alleged involvement in the country’s anglophone crisis. Reporters Without Borders (RSF) […]
At least 16 people, including women and children, were killed by militiamen late Wednesday in an attack in northeastern Democratic Republic of Congo, according to local media. The raid by members of the armed political-religious sect the Cooperative for the Development of Congo (CODECO) took place in Moussa village in Ituri province. According to the […]
Nineteen armed militants were killed in the northern Sinai region of Egypt, a military spokesperson said Sunday. Tamir er-Rifai said the militants were killed in recently held operations by security authorities but acknowledged five Egyptian army members were killed or wounded. He said the army confiscated explosives, automatic rifles, and RPG rocket launchers. Airforces struck […]
Armed criminals killed 60 people in a string of attacks on villages in the restive northwest of Nigeria, medics and residents said Thursday. Dozens of gunmen — described locally as “bandits — riding motorcycles raided five villages in Sabon Birni district in Sokoto state late Wednesday, the sources told KnowAfrika. “We received a total of […]
Mozambique’s army said it has killed 50 suspected jihadists in the northern Cabo Delgado province after another spate of insurgent attacks in the gas-rich region this week. A shadowy Islamist group has terrorised remote communities in the Mozambique’s Muslim-majority north since 2017, killing more than 1 100 people, according to the Armed Conflict Location & […]
Security forces in Burkina Faso killed 20 terrorists in a clash near the border with Niger, the army said Wednesday. In a statement, the General Staff of the Armed Forces said an army patrol in Yagha province was ambushed by armed attackers. It said the troops killed 20 terrorists but eight soldiers lost their lives […]
Four militiamen were killed and four wounded in the Kahuzi Biega National Park (PNKB) in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo during an operation against a group engaged in illegal activities. A park guard was injured in the thigh during the joint operation conducted Monday and Tuesday by PNKB guards and the Congolese army, a park […]
Suspected Islamist armed groups in Burkina Faso killed at least 90 civilians in 3 attacks on villages in late January 2020 that forced thousands to flee, Human Rights Watch said today. The attacks, between January 17 and 25, accelerated government plans to create a new militia force, raising concerns of future abuses. The killings in […]
About 52 villagers in Mozambique’s troubled northernmost province were killed by Islamist insurgents on April 7 after they refused to be recruited to their ranks, police said on Tuesday. “The young men were about to be recruited but they resisted, which provoked the ire of the bandits that killed the 52 indiscriminately,” police spokesman Orlando […]
Egyptian security forces on Tuesday killed seven suspected militants in a shootout in Cairo, the Interior Ministry said, amid tight security as the country’s Coptic Christians start the Holy Week leading up to Easter next week. A police officer was also killed during the hours-long firefight which erupted when security forces raided a suspected militant […]
Six persons were at midnight killed and one trapped after a Dangote Cement truck crushed a passenger vehicle in Epe. The silo truck said to fallen on a commercial taxi carrying seven persons just after the long bridge inwards Epe Expressway killing six of the occupants on the spot. The taxi, an OPEL car with […]
At least 70 Nigerian soldiers were killed in an ambush on their convoy by terrorists in the restive northeast, military and security sources said on Tuesday. Insurgents fired rocket-propelled grenades at a lorry carrying troops as it travelled near Gorgi village in Borno state on Monday, two military officers told AFP without giving their names. […]