Africa

An official statement indicates that a senior government official in Niger state, central Nigeria, has been kidnapped. Mohammed Sani Idris, Niger's state commissioner for…
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Health officials in Guinea have confirmed West Africa’s first case of Marburg, a highly-infectious disease that’s in the same family as the virus that causes Ebola. The World Health…
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The Nigerian military has said that it has killed at about 78 gunmen belonging to what it calls "criminal gangs" during an aerial attack of their hideouts in the north-west part of…
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The ex-President of South Africa, Jacob Zuma, will be allowed out of prison on August 10 to appear in person at a corruption trial. The court reached this decision after more than…
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The Federal Republic of Nigeria has received a donation of four million doses of Covid-19 vaccine from the US government. The US embassy in Nigeria says the donated vaccines are…
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A 22 year old Senegalese university student, Khadim Mboup, has been arrested for disguising himself as a woman to sit his girlfriend's school-leaving English paper. Khadim's images…
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A 17-year-old student of Government Technical College Bukuru of Plateau State in Nigeria is reported to have allegedly stabbed his teacher to death.The deceased identified as Job Dashe…
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The President of Zambia, Edgar Lungu has ordered the deployment of the military in Zambia to put a stop to  electoral violence ahead of the 12 August general elections in the thick of…
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The draw for next year's rescheduled Africa Cup of Nations in Cameroon will be held on 17 August. Letters have been sent out by the Confederation of African Football (CAF) to football…
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More than 300 children kidnapped from schools in Nigeria are still in the hands of criminal gangs in Nigeria, with many of them missing for about two months. Some of those abducted are…
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