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South Africa: Smokers Rejoice After Government Legalizes Marijuana

In the early hours of Tuesday September 18th 2018,  South Africa’s Constitutional Court declared the law criminalizing the use of weed unconstitutional and invalid, giving the government 24 months to come up with new ones that respected South Africans’ right to privacy “in their private spheres.” While it will “not be a criminal offence for […]

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Teodorin Nguema Obiang: $16m Seize From Equatorial Guinea’s VP Delegation By Police in Brazil

More than $16m (£12m) in cash and luxury watches were seized at an airport in Brazil in the luggage of a delegation accompanying the son of the president of Equatorial Guinea, local media has reported. Teodorin Nguema Obiang, vice-president of Equatorial Guinea and son of its longtime president, Teodoro Obiang Nguema, arrived on Friday on […]

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Africa: Death Penalty Annulled For Sudanese Young Girl

Forced to marry at 16, Noura Hussein killed her husband who was trying to rape her, the defense said. Her sentence was commuted to five years in prison. A court of appeal has annulled, Tuesday, June 26, the death sentence against a young Sudanese woman who was convicted of killing her husband whom she accuses […]

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Breaking News-Nigeria: Health Minister Bans The Sale & Consumption Of Shisha

The Nigerian government, specifically the Ministry of Health wants to start arresting shisha smokers. Speaking at a press conference in Abuja on Saturday to mark the World No-Tobacco day, Nigeria’s Minister of Health, Isaac Adewole, implored law enforcement agencies to arrest persons who were violating the government’s ban on flavoured tobacco products, and its most […]

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SOUTH AFRICA: A married man who killed his mistress and burned her body in 2017, sentenced to 32 years in prison.

The Gauteng High Court in Johannesburg sentenced Sandile Mantsoe for the murder of her ex-girlfriend Karabo Mokoena in April 2017. Sandile Mantsoe, who was married with three children, had been dating since 2016 with his 22-year-old victim. In an argument, he stabbed Mokoena and tried to hide the murder by burning her body. The case […]

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Nigeria: Over 4000 Teachers Sacked For Incompetence

According to some Nigerian online news sites, the teachers in Kaduna were among the 15,897 the government recruited in 2017 following the sack of 22, 000 teachers for failing aptitude tests. According to the Nigerian State Commissioner of Education, Ja’afaru Sani, the newly recruited teachers could not write their acceptance letters properly after being offered employment. […]

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Ghana: The West African Country Will Soon Legalize Homosexuality

According to a Ghanaian news site, president, Nana Akufo-Addo, recently granted an interview to Aljazeera English in which he implied that homosexuality will eventually be legalized in Ghana. This statement was followed by another offer from the British Prime Minister, Theresa May, who says Britain is to blame for making homosexuality illegal in Ghana. Having […]