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Democracy in post-independence Nigeria

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Ethiopia's Tigray crisis: BBC reporter Girmay Gebru detained by military
Posted on Monday March 01, 2021

Girmay Gebru and four others were taken from a café in the regional capital Mekelle, witnesses say.

Covax: Ivory Coast and Ghana begin mass Covid vaccination rollouts
Posted on Monday March 01, 2021

Ivory Coast and Ghana start using Covid vaccines provided by a scheme to help poorer nations.

Nigeria's school abductions: Why children are being targeted
Posted on Monday March 01, 2021

Paying ransoms to kidnappers is fuelling the mass abduction of students in northern Nigeria, analysts say.

Love Island: South Africa's reality show is 'too white'
Posted on Monday March 01, 2021

Viewers are asking why most contestants in the reality show are white in the majority-black country.

African Champions League: Mixed fortunes for SA teams
Posted on Monday March 01, 2021

There were mixed fortunes for South African clubs in two delayed African Champions League ties.

Ethiopia's Tigray crisis: Blinken says US concerned about atrocities
Posted on Sunday February 28, 2021

Human rights violations have taken place in Tigray region, Secretary of State Antony Blinken says.

Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala makes history at WTO
Posted on Monday March 01, 2021

The former Nigerian finance minister becomes the first woman, and the first African, head of the WTO.

Cryptocurrencies: Why Nigeria is a global leader in Bitcoin trade
Posted on Sunday February 28, 2021

A devaluing currency and hard economic conditions make cryptocurrencies attractive despite the risks.

John F Kennedy: When the US president met Africa's independence heroes
Posted on Saturday February 27, 2021

A photo archive reveals John F Kennedy's efforts to court African leaders in the post-colonial era.

Viewpoint: Self-defence not the answer to Nigeria's kidnap crisis
Posted on Thursday February 25, 2021

The defence minister said people should at times provide their own security but it is not that easy.

Benjamin Acheampong: 'They can't treat us like animals,' says player 'duped' out of $1m
Posted on Wednesday February 24, 2021

One of Africa's biggest clubs - Zamalek - is accused of 'immoral' and 'merciless' behaviour as it allegedly 'exploited' the contract of a player it no longer wanted.

Senegal's teenage jockey races to fame
Posted on Wednesday February 24, 2021

Fallou Diop won the country's top racing prize when he was just 17.

Covid-19 Africa: Vaccine rollout is gathering pace
Posted on Monday March 01, 2021

The Covax scheme for poorer countries has begun distribution in Africa but many countries are still waiting.

Grenoble: Seven immigrants who saved brothers from fire in La Villeneuve
Posted on Sunday February 28, 2021

Seven immigrants re-live the terrifying moment when they saved two boys from a burning flat in Grenoble.

Maids in Lebanon: 'My employer treats me like a slave'
Posted on Sunday February 28, 2021

Lucy's dream of working in the Middle East turned into a nightmare of abuse. She's not the only one.

Kenya: A sustainable solution to locust swarms?
Posted on Thursday February 25, 2021

An NGO is training and paying communities in Kenya to catch locusts, so they can be turned into animal feed.

Namaste Wahala: Does the real-life mirror the film?
Posted on Wednesday February 24, 2021

Do real-life couples face the same difficulties as those depicted in the Bollywood-Nollywood crossover?

How to say Gqeberha - the new Xhosa name for Port Elizabeth
Posted on Wednesday February 24, 2021

How to master Xhosa tongue-twisters as South Africa's city of Port Elizabeth changes its name.

Somalia: Opposition protesters run from government gunfire
Posted on Friday February 19, 2021

Heavy gunfire breaks out in Somalia's capital as the opposition defies a ban to protest about delayed elections.

Kenya: Butterfly farming to provide income and help conservation
Posted on Wednesday February 17, 2021

Butterfly farming along the Kenyan coast is a source of income and a way of conserving the local forest.


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News24.com | Burkina Faso gold mine collapse kills at least 11
Posted on Monday March 01, 2021

At least 11 people have been killed and three injured when a gold mine collapsed in northern Burkina Faso.

News24.com | Zamfara state govt in talks with kidnappers of 317 Nigerian schoolgirls - officials
Posted on Monday March 01, 2021

Officials in Nigeria's Zamfara state are in touch with the gunmen who abducted 317 schoolgirls last week and are negotiating their release, two state officials told Reuters.

News24.com | Zimbabwe vice president Kembo Mohadi resigns - statement
Posted on Monday March 01, 2021

Zimbabwe's Vice President Kembo Mohadi has resigned, saying this was meant to save the image of the government following local media reports of improper conduct.

Businessinsider.co.za | MTN has one more month to register more than half its SIM cards in Nigeria
Posted on Monday March 01, 2021

MTN has updated the registrations of 48.7% of its Nigerian subscribers since December. It has until April 6 to update many millions more.

News24.com | Ivory Coast to launch first vaccination drive with Covax shots
Posted on Monday March 01, 2021

People have queued early as the Ivory Coast prepared to become the first country to launch a Covid-19 inoculation drive.

News24.com | Algeria riots after activist jailed
Posted on Monday March 01, 2021

Unrest broke out in an Algerian town after a blogger and activist was handed a seven-year jail sentence for condoning acts of terrorism, a news website has reported.

News24.com | Taking Covid-19 vaccine will not alter your DNA, Ghana President Nana Akufo-Addo says
Posted on Monday March 01, 2021

Ghanaian President Nana Akufo-Addo has urged citizens of the West African state to ignore conspiracy theories surrounding coronavirus vaccines.

News24.com | Still no word from SA government on controversial Ugandan elections
Posted on Sunday February 28, 2021

South Africa is not in a position to pronounce on whether the Ugandan elections was free and fair.

News24.com | US calls on African Union to exert pressure over worsening crisis in Ethiopia's Tigray
Posted on Sunday February 28, 2021

US Secretary of State Antony Blinken on Saturday called on the African Union and other international partners to help address a deepening crisis in Ethiopia's northern Tigray region as he condemned alleged atrocities in fighting there.

News24.com | Nigerian schoolboys freed as forces search for 300 abducted girls
Posted on Sunday February 28, 2021

Gunmen in Nigeria on Saturday released 27 teenage boys who were kidnapped from their school last week in the north-central state of Niger, while security forces continued to search for more than 300 schoolgirls abducted in a nearby state.

News24.com | Zimbabwean business leaders sound an unfamiliar note: optimism
Posted on Sunday February 28, 2021

Business executives are sounding decidedly upbeat in Zimbabwe, a sea change from the pessimism they’ve expressed through two decades of economic mismanagement and institutional decay.

News24.com | Assailants free 42 people kidnapped from Nigeria school
Posted on Saturday February 27, 2021

Kidnappers have freed 42 people, including 27 children, snatched from a school in central Nigeria 10 days ago, officials said on Saturday, a day after more than 300 schoolgirls were abducted by gunmen in the northwest.

News24.com | Gunmen kidnap more than 300 schoolgirls in increasingly lawless northwest Nigeria
Posted on Saturday February 27, 2021

Unidentified gunmen seized more than 300 girls in a nighttime raid on a school in northwest Nigeria on Friday and are believed to be holding some of them in a forest, police said.

News24.com | Libya's new PM to unveil team in first hurdle of transition
Posted on Friday February 26, 2021

Libya's prime minister-designate Abdul Hamid Dheibah is set to name a transitional government tasked with unifying the war-torn nation and leading it to elections in December.

News24.com | Cameroon police arrest 'suspected homosexuals' at AIDS centre
Posted on Thursday February 25, 2021

Police in Cameroon have arrested nine people on suspicion of homosexuality, most of them at an HIV/AIDS care centre, an LGBT rights lawyer said.

News24.com | African Union backs call to waive intellectual property rights on Covid-19 drugs
Posted on Thursday February 25, 2021

The African Union is backing calls for drugmakers to waive some intellectual property rights on Covid-19 medicines and vaccines to speed up their rollout to poor countries, the head of its disease control body.

News24.com | Africa’s biggest fibre company raises $840 million in bond sale
Posted on Thursday February 25, 2021

Liquid Telecom, majority owned by telecoms tycoon Strive Masiyiwa, raised $840 million in a bond sale to refinance debt and expand further into Africa.

News24.com | Gunmen kill 36 in attacks on two northern Nigerian states
Posted on Thursday February 25, 2021

Gunmen have killed 36 people in two attacks in Nigeria, a day after insurgents fired rocket-propelled grenades amid worsening security facing Africa's most populous nation.

News24.com | Niger opposition leader alleges election fraud, declares victory
Posted on Thursday February 25, 2021

Niger opposition leader Mahamane Ousmane has claimed that he narrowly won the country’s presidential election.

News24.com | Zim news outlet publishes report accusing country's VP of soliciting sex at his office
Posted on Wednesday February 24, 2021

Zimbabwe's 71-year-old Vice President Kembo Mohadi on Wednesday refuted accusations of sexual misconduct by an online news outlet, saying he is the victim of "political machinations".

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