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Giant African land snails have invaded a residential area in Miami-Dade County, threatening the state’s plants and residents. The Florida Department of Agriculture has warned workers about the new foreign invader. Public Information Director for Florida’s Division of Plant Industry, Denise Feiber, said: “We have collected over a thousand so far and we have only just begun.” Giant African land ...

One of Britain’s most wanted fugitive, Dion Kendrick Lee, has been arrested in Lagos, Nigeria. He was arrested on Tuesday by The National Drug Law Enforcement Agency, NDLEA. The 34-year-old, was wanted by Lancashire Police and the Serious Organized Crime Agency in connection with drugs and firearms crimes, as well as allegedly conspiring to supply Class A and C Drugs ...

Statistics has shown that there has been a great reduction in child mortality rate in Africa over the past decade. Even sub-Saharan Africa which has the world’s highest rate of child mortality has dramatically improved the health of its children over the past decade. In fact, the rate of improvement in Africa is accelerating – it has doubled in the ...

Niger Justice Minister Marou Amadou said on Wednesday that the country needs help policing more than six million square meters of desert along its border with Libya. Gadhafi’s former security chief and one of his sons, along with at least two former generals, have all crossed the border into Niger on what the government calls humanitarian grounds. He said it ...

A head-on collision involving two passenger buses in southern Ghana early Thursday killed twenty-two passengers. The accident occurred around 3.00 a.m. near Kumasi, Ghana’s second largest city, some 270 km from Accra. The injured victims have been admitted to a hospital in Kumasi. Details on the cause of the accident are not yet known.