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By Francis Kokoroko and Cooper Inveen (Reuters) – A generation before the Gold Coast became Ghana, local photographer J.K. Bruce-Vanderpuije opened a small studio in the then-colonial capital Accra, where his family would become the de facto visual historians of a nation that had not yet been born. For 100 years, three generations of Bruce-Vanderpuijes …

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By Catarina Demony LISBON (Reuters) -Angola’s main opposition party on Tuesday said it had submitted legal complaints challenging the electoral commission’s finding that the governing party won last week’s election but the body said it had not received any complaints related to it. In a statement on Tuesday, the opposition party, the National Union for …

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By Libby George LAGOS (Reuters) – Every section of Nigerian society is complicit in the theft of millions of barrels, the head of state oil company NNPC Ltd said on Tuesday, adding that make-shift pipelines and stolen fuel had even been found in churches and mosques. Large-scale theft https://www.reuters.com/article/nigeria-oil-buhari-idAFS8N2XF097 from the nation’s pipelines has throttled …

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By Duncan Miriri NAIROBI (Reuters) – Kenya’s Supreme Court on Tuesday laid out eight questions it will answer when it rules on this month’s disputed presidential election result, including whether the commission’s website was hacked. Opposition leader Raila Odinga, who is seeking the presidency for the fifth time, is contesting the result of a tight …

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ABUJA (Reuters) – A Nigerian judge on Monday rejected a request by the federal government to extradite a suspended police chief to the United States to face charges linked to fraud. Commissioner Abba Kyari has denied involvement in what a U.S. indictment describes as an elaborate scheme to defraud a Qatari businessperson of more than …

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By Catarina Demony and Tim Cocks LISBON (Reuters) -Angola’s electoral commission on Monday declared the ruling MPLA, in power for nearly five decades since independence, the winner of last week’s national election, handing President Joao Lourenco a second term amid concerns about possible fraud. The commission gave the ex-Marxist People’s Movement for the Liberation of …

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(Removes reference to first change of president in third paragraph) By Catarina Demony and Tim Cocks LUANDA (Reuters) -A second term for Angolan President Joao Lourenco may have disappointed many voters keen to break with five decades of one-party rule, but many would still admit he’s done much to tackle corruption within its ranks. Lourenco, …

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ACCRA (Reuters) – A lion at Ghana’s Accra Zoo mauled a man to death after he entered its enclosure over the weekend, the government said in a statement. At around noon local time on Sunday, security guards on patrol noticed that the middle-aged victim had climbed over a tall mesh fence and entered the enclosure …

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