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Two teenage boys who shot a 14-year-old girl because her Snapchats were annoying them will be charged as adults, a judge ruled Wednesday. Sixteen-year-old Colter Danny Peterson and 16-year-old Jayzen Decker were accused of shooting 14-year-old Deserae Turner in the back of the head February 16 in Smithfield, Utah. First District Juvenile Court judge Angela Fonnesbeck ruled that Peterson would ...

Liberty University President Jerry Falwell, Jr. on Saturday presented President Trump with an honorary Doctorate of Laws at the Lynchburg, Va. school’s commencement ceremony. In a speech that painted Trump as a fierce political ally of evangelical Christians, Falwell praised Trump’s early accomplishments in office and admonished the news media and academics for their “relentless” attacks on the president. “President ...

Abuja – Eight-two of Nigeria’s Chibok schoolgirls are free thanks to a prisoner swap between the Nigerian government and Boko Haram. The release is the biggest since the armed group swarmed a school in northern Nigeria in April 2014, kidnapping 276 girls. But the ordeal is not over for the freed girls and their families, according to Peter Joseph, the ...

Dundo – Hundreds of people from Democratic Republic of Congo’s central Kasai region have been pouring into neighbouring Angola every day for more than a month to escape violence plaguing their homes. Some 20 000 people who have fled are now in or around three holding camps in Dundo in Angola’s far north, living in increasingly dire conditions, according to ...

Harare – Zimbabwean opposition parties have rubbished results by a new survey that claimed that most Zimbabweans still put their trust in President Robert Mugabe, 93, as the country’s leader. The mass survey carried out by Afrobarometer, polled 1 200 adults in Zimbabwe’s urban and rural areas in January and February. It said that at least 64% of Zimbabweans indicated ...

Kinshasa – One person has been confirmed dead from Ebola in an outbreak in a remote corner of northern Democratic Republic of Congo as health authorities look into a total of nine suspected cases, including two other deaths, the country’s health minister and the World Health Organisation said on Friday. One case of the hemorrhagic fever was confirmed out of ...

Kano – Boko Haram late on Friday released a video claiming to show the Chibok schoolgirls who refused to be rescued as part of a recent swap deal with the Nigerian government. In the three-minute video, a woman who claims to be Maida Yakubu, one of the schoolgirls kidnapped by Boko Haram in April 2014, is seen wearing a black ...

Nairobi – At least 19 people were killed in a crash between a bus and two trucks early on Saturday in Kenya, police said. The accident comes just weeks after another collision killed dozens in Kenya, which has notoriously dangerous roads. “We had a bad accident this morning where we lost 18 people on the spot,” police commander Hassan Barua ...

Harare – Know how to tell a fake Zimbabwe cop from a real one? It’s all in the boots. A teacher who dressed up as a cop so he could hitch a free ride on public transport on Monday was rumbled when the driver noticed his boots weren’t the real ones, according to a report in the state-owned Chronicle. Twenty-six-year ...

The man believed to be the boyfriend of a 22-year-old woman whose killing has shocked South Africa has appeared in court in Johannesburg to face murder charges, local media report. Karabo Mokoena’s mother wept as she arrived at the hearing. A widespread online campaign to find Mokoena was called off on Wednesday when her father confirmed her death. The case ...