World Bank says no new funding to Uganda over anti-gay law

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The World Bank said it will not consider new loans to Uganda after the East African country earlier this year enacted an anti-gay bill...

Antony Blinken: “Wagner takes advantage of the situation in Niger”

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The head of the American diplomacy Antony Blinken warned in an interview published on Tuesday that Wagner was taking advantage of the instability caused...

Zimbabwe: opposition faces challenges but won’t give up (Chamisa)

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Zimbabwe's opposition faces many challenges, including "political violence" two weeks ahead of the August 23 presidential and parliamentary elections, but will not give up,...

Ethiopia: WFP “tests” resumption of food aid in Tigray

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The UN's World Food Programme (WFP) told AFP on Tuesday that since the end of July it has been "testing" the resumption of food...

41 migrants die in shipwreck off Italy’s Lampedusa

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Forty-one migrants have died in a shipwreck off the Italian island of Lampedusa Island, survivors told local media in a report on Wednesday citing...

S.Leone says 14 soldiers, 3 police under investigation for ‘subversion’

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Fourteen Sierra Leonean soldiers, three current and former police officers and two civilians have been arrested and are under investigation for "subversion", while a...

Genocide in Rwanda: Survivors disappointed by UN verdict

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Survivors of Rwanda's 1994 genocide criticized Tuesday a call by appeals judges at a United Nations court to indefinitely halt the trial of an...

Local businesses in northern Nigeria feel the sting of regional sanctions...

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A decision by a bloc of West African nations to shut down their borders with Niger as a way of sanctioning its coup plotters...

Ogun Customs seize 1,416 used tyres, goods worth ₦106.7m

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The Nigeria Customs Service (NCS), Ogun 1 Area Command, has intercepted 1,416 pieces of used tyres and other goods worth ₦106.7 million in July. The...

‘We’ve nothing to hide in PAP’ – Interim Administrator

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Retired Maj.-Gen. Barry Ndiomu, the interim Administrator of Presidential Amnesty Programme (PAP), says the programme has nothing to hide, faulting calls for a probe...