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Police in Kenya said they have arrested seven suspects in connection with a gang rape of a woman in western Bomet county.

The incident, captured in a viral video, happened in Chebanyi village last December, the police said.

The clip trending as "sigor boys" on X, formerly known as Twitter, shows several men in a dimly lit room taking turns to sexually assault a woman, who is heard screaming.

The video has shocked the country, with many calling for justi...

Russian military instructors have arrived in Niger to train the national army, as Moscow continues to bolster its influence in the troubled Sahel region of West Africa.

The military specialists, who arrived in Niger's capital, Niamey on Wednesday, were seen unloading gear from a cargo plane.

"We are here to train the Nigerien army …[and] to develop military cooperation between Russia and Niger," one of the instructors told Niger state TV RTN.

South Africa's highest court has barred former President Jacob Zuma from running for parliament in next week's general election.

The Constitutional Court ruled that his 15-month prison sentence for contempt of court disqualified him.

Mr Zuma was convicted in 2021 for refusing to testify at an inquiry investigating corruption during his presidency which ended in 2018.

He has been campaigning under the banner of the n...

Church of Scotland sell-off comes as most people say they have no religion.

The Church of Scotland is selling 100 historic buildings to free up funds after a drastic decline in the number of worshippers and ministers.

Churches, plots of land and former council houses, some dating back to the 1700s, have been listed for sale at prices ranging from £35,000 in what the Church has described as a “painful” move.

The institution said financial pressur...

Police in Russia have confirmed the death of nineteen people in attacks on their posts, churches and a synagogue in the North Caucasus republic of Dagestan.

According to the report, 19 police officers and several civilians dead, while Six gunmen were also killed.

The apparently coordinated attacks targeted the cities of Derbent and Makhachkala on the Orthodox festival of Pentecost.

The assailants have not been officially id...

Kenya’s President William Ruto says he will withdraw a finance bill containing controversial tax hikes after deadly protests which saw parliament set ablaze on Tuesday.

In an address to the nation, he said it was clear that Kenyans "want nothing" to do with the bill.

"I concede," he said, adding that he would not sign the bill into law.

At least 22 people were killed in Tuesday’s protests, ac...

Eric Schmitt, a senator from Missouri who was part of the group of allies that met with Donald Trump to talk policy ahead of the debate, said tonight went “better than expected”.

“President Trump is very good on his feet, knows the issues,” he tells the BBC. “I couldn’t have anticipated a better performance.”

Schmidt took aim at Biden’s performance, whom he says looked “confused&rdq...

A furious wife has hacked off her husband’s penis after he allegedly said another woman’s name during sex. 

The couple were making love at their home last week when the husband allegedly moaned another woman’s name.

His raging wife, 55, waited for him to fall asleep before allegedly grabbing a 10-inch long knife from the kitchen and chopping off his penis. 

Police shared images which show th...

Police in Kenya say they found five bags filled with the dismembered remains of a number of women at a rubbish dump in the capital Nairobi on Saturday.

Detectives have been scouring the site in the Mukuru slum since Friday, when the corpses of six other women were found in sacks floating in a sea of rubbish.

Officers said the bags recovered on Saturday included severed legs and two torsos, speculating that the deaths could be related to the ac...

Kenyan police say they have arrested a suspected serial killer who has confessed to murdering 42 women including his wife and dumping their dismembered bodies in a Nairobi rubbish tip.

Since Friday, nine butchered bodies trussed up in plastic bags have been pulled from the dump site in the Mukuru slum area in the south of the capital.

The acting inspector general of police, Douglas Kanja, said the 33-year-old suspect, named as Collin...