Musa was asleep in the village of Dusuman in northeast Nigeria when he was awoken by a sharp burst of gunfire and Boko Haram stole his main source of livelihood — his livestock.”They came at about one in the morning and started firing in the air,” said the Fulani herdsman, whose name AFP has changed …
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They are often disparaged as ugly, sly and cruel scavengers but for South African artist Hannelie Coetzee, hyenas are symbols of female power and the normalisation of queerness.The walls of her studio in the university district of downtown Johannesburg are covered in drawings in ink and rooibos tea of the sloped-back carnivores, her heroines of …
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Olympic 200m champion Letsile Tebogo said on Wednesday he could have become a delinquent if the sport of athletics had not given him a focus.Tebogo, who stunned the field in Paris last year to became Botswana’s first Olympic gold medallist in any sport, said he would take the lessons he learned from his childhood into …
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President Bola Tinubu dismissed the entire leadership of Nigeria’s state-run oil company Wednesday, naming a former Shell executive to lead the outfit in a sweeping overhaul that one commentator described as “long overdue”.The National Petroleum Company (NNPC) Limited’s group chief executive, Mele Kyari, as well as its chairman Pius Akinyelure — a close ally of …
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Niger’s junta said Tuesday it had freed around 50 people, including ministers from the government it toppled in July 2023, in line with recommendations of a “national conference” in February.Those freed include former ministers, a diplomat, a journalist and soldiers accused of a coup bid in 2010. However ousted former president Mohamed Bazoum is still …
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The recent pardon handed down to former Guinean dictator Moussa Dadis Camara over his role in a 2009 massacre “is an affront to justice,” rights organisations said Tuesday.Camara, jailed for 20 years over a 2009 massacre, was pardoned last week for “health reasons” by the west African country’s junta leader, with a rights body Saturday …
Lawyers for the family of accused former Gabon president Ali Bongo Ondimba on Tuesday slammed what they termed French “silence” over alleged torture suffered during a “cruel and illegal detention.”Former first lady Sylvia Bongo and her son Noureddin have been in custody since an August 2023 coup brought to power Brice Oligui Nguema, toppling the …
Kenya’s President William Ruto sparked protests recently after donating some $150,000 to a Nairobi church just months after saying such hand-outs fuelled corruption. Ruto’s pledge of 20 million shillings to the Jesus Winner Ministry Church led to protesters gathering there a week later, demanding the return of what they called “stolen tax money”, only to be …
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Small groups of protesters gathered under heavy security in the Zimbabwe capital Monday, heeding a call to demonstrate to demand that President Emmerson Mnangagwa leave power.The protests were called by a veteran of Mnangagwa’s own ZANU-PF party over anger at moves to keep him in power beyond the end of his term in 2028.Security forces …
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UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer urged dozens of countries attending an immigration crime summit on Monday to join forces to dismantle migrant smuggling gangs “once and for all”.Starmer is seeking to crack down on would-be asylum seekers arriving in England on flimsy small boats and has brought together delegates from more than 40 nations for …
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