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The World Bank has said it will invest two billion dollars into current sustainable development and poverty reduction projects in Nigeria. The Senior Manager of sustainable development department, Africa region, Anna Bjerde, said this at a press conference in Abuja. She listed the projects as: road constructions, generation of power, agriculture, and construction of drainages for flooded areas, as well ...

Rumors of the discovery of diamond deposits in a small village in Beitbridge have triggered a wave of human traffic to the area. The stampede began last month after a Harare man, named locally as Rasim Kassim, was granted a prospector’s license to explore for aquamarine – a blue-green variety of the mineral beryl, from the same family as emeralds. ...

When people talk about tobacco and its negative effects, most think only of lung cancer and perhaps, red lips and blackened fingers. But tobacco causes a lot more harm to the body than that. Worse still, tobacco affects not only those who intentionally take it in directly, such as smokers but those who could be near them as they smoke ...

An Ethiopian man has died from his injuries after he set himself on fire in a protest against the government following mass arrests of youths from his local area. Residents of Dawro area in south west Ethiopia said 29-year-old school teacher Yenesew Gebre poured flammable petroleum distillate Benzine on his body in front of the local government building in Waka ...

A brilliant South African woman by the name of Sonette Ehlers, has invented a new anti-rape gadget to trap with rows of razor-sharp hooks designed to be worn internally by women. The product named Rapex, latches on to a rapist’s penis during penetration and can only be removed by a doctor. Several anti-rape crusaders in the country are said to ...