| 5,988,020 |
6.09407 |
-0.25913 |
Ghana |
|
Staff of the Electricity Company of Ghana in Koforidua and other parts of the country, who are also members of the Trades Union Congress (TUC), used May Day celebrations to protest against a decision to outsource some of the company's services to private sector investors, bearing placards and wearing red bands. |
| 5,988,024 |
6.03733 |
-0.25998 |
Ghana |
|
Residents clashed with police in Okorasi in the Akuapim North District over inaction to investigate the disappearance of a community member, forcing the police to fire several warning shots. The residents also set ablaze a car belonging to a local fetish priest and vandalized properties. |
| 5,988,027 |
11.3166 |
-12.2833 |
Guinea |
|
Sanitation workers protested in Labe against lack of income payment by their employer in a 10-days project. |
| 5,988,033 |
-1.27846 |
36.784796 |
Kenya |
|
The Students Organisation of Nairobi University (SONU) chairman Babu Owino is charged with severely assaulting a fellow student during the height of the student elections. |
| 5,988,126 |
-18.9386 |
47.5167 |
Madagascar |
|
400 protesters marched in silence to draw attention to children recently killed by traffic accidents. |
| 5,988,041 |
-1.28333 |
36.81667 |
Kenya |
|
Businessman and prominent critic of the government Jacob Juma is shot dead by unknown gunmen in Nairobi. Nothing was stolen. The opposition has labelled his killing an 'assassination'. |
| 5,988,047 |
6.14555 |
-10.23525 |
Liberia |
|
An unknown number of people are feared injured or dead following alleged clashes between members of the traditional Poro or Sande Societies in Grand Bassa County, mainly in Kpokon. Several houses were burnt down in the clashes. |
| 5,988,051 |
31.20892 |
16.58866 |
Libya |
|
A group of 15 Ukrainian doctors were captured by a group of around 30 Islamic State (IS) gunmen from the Ibn Sina hospital in the Libyan city of Sirte on March 16 2015. They were released a day later, on March 17, according to the Ukrainian Foreign Ministry. |
| 5,988,056 |
32.48798 |
20.83174 |
Libya |
|
A widely-followed blogger and social activist disappeared from his Marj home along with two friends on 28 March. It is being claimed that the trio were seized by three armed men in military uniforms who drove them away in a black Chevrolet. At the time an army spokesman denied that the authorities had arrested the young men. It was suggested that they had travelled to Ajdabiya to be with Ibrahim Jadhran. |
| 5,988,060 |
31.20892 |
16.58866 |
Libya |
|
The Islamic State (IS) group executed two brothers from Suluq city on Saturday [30 April] in Sirte. They were apprehended by the group's members because they had photos of army personnel on their phones. |
