An influential traditional priest aged 63 has sparked public outrage in Ghana by marrying a 12-year-old girl. Nuumo Borketey Laweh Tsuru XXXIII, reportedly married 12-year-old, Naa Okromo in a customary ceremony held on Saturday in Nungua.
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Judith Suminwa Tuluka has been appointed as DR Congo’s first female prime minister. This landmark decision was a campaign promise made by President Tshisekedi and marks a significant step towards gender equality in Congolese politics.
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King Charles III has only been Britain’s reigning monarch for 18 months, yet his funeral plans are already set amid his battle with cancer.
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A Nigerian court has sentenced a Chinese businessman to death after being found guilty of murdering his girlfriend Ummu Kulthum Sani in 2022.
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Ethiopia’s largest bank says it has recovered almost three-quarters of the $14m it lost in a glitch that allowed customers withdraw more money than they had in their bank accounts.
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Richard Taylor, the father of schoolboy Damilola Taylor who was murdered in 2000, has died aged 75.
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It was an unlikely climb to the top for an unlikely national figurehead. Bassirou Diomaye Faye was a tax inspector before he became his party’s secretary general and a trusted lieutenant of opposition leader, Ousmane Sonko.
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Former Indomitable Lion and Chelsea footballer Geremi Njitab has filed a divorce from his wife of 12 years after DNA tests showed his two children were fathered by his wife’s ex.
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South African multinational restaurant chain has teamed up with Arsenal FC star striker Bukayo Saka to unveil a signature brand of PERi PERi sauce.
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A cure for HIV could be on the horizon after scientists eliminated the virus from cells in a laboratory.
Using a gene-editing tool known as Crispr-Cas, researchers were able to target HIV DNA and remove all traces of the virus from infected cells.
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