APA

Four people were killed and several others injured after a minibus collided with a trailer truck in the Guinean capital Conakry on Thursday.

A preliminary UN investigation into a massacre reportedly carried out in western Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) last month, reveals that “at least 535 civilians were killed in four attacks”, the UN Mission in the country, MONUSCO, said on Wednesday.

Rwanda was ranked at the 48th place at global level and 4th in Africa on the scale of corruption perception index for 2018 obtained Thursday from the Berlin-based corruption watchdog – Transparency International.

The President of the Alliance for a Green Revolution in Africa (AGRA), Dr Agnes Matilda Kalibata has been awarded the 2019 Public Welfare Medal by the US-based National Academy of Sciences (NAS) for her work to drive Africa’s agricultural transformation through modern science and effective policy, according to an official statement obtained in Kigali on Thursday.

The ongoing by-election at Ayawaso West Wuogon Constituency in Accra to elect a new legislator to replace the late Emmanuel Agyarko, whose second wife Lydia Seyram Alhassan, is a candidate for the ruling New Patriotic Party (NPP) has been marred by violence.