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A suicide bomber killed at least 50 people in northeastern Nigeria on Tuesday in an attack on a mosque which bore the hallmarks of a faction of the Islamist militant group Boko Haram. The bombing in Mubi in Adamawa state was one of the…
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Kenya's Supreme Court has unanimously upheld President Uhuru Kenyatta's election victory in a rerun vote that was held in October. Opposition candidate Raila Odinga had said the results of the first election were invalid and challenged…
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A US Navy aircraft carrying 11 crew and passengers has crashed into the sea off the coast of Japan. The cause of crash is unknown and the names those onboard are being withheld while next of kin are notified, the US Navy said in a…
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In order to aid, enhance and address issues of piracy and armed robbery at sea in the Sahel region, the Interregional Institute for Maritime Safety and Security (ISMI) has announced its Seminar on Maritime Terrorism in the Gulf of Guinea.…
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President of the African Union (A.U.) Alpha Conde has reacted to the resignation of Robert Mugabe, a week after the army took over political authority. Conde according to the visionguinee news website said he was delighted that the…
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Former Vice President Emmerson Mnangagwa will be sworn in as president on Friday, according to Zimbabwe's state broadcaster. The report by the government-controlled Zimbabwe Broadcasting Corporation (ZBC) said Mnangagwa will arrive in the…
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Saad al-Hariri has deferred his resignation as Lebanon's prime minister and has vowed to work with the country's president Michel Aoun to "protect" the country and maintain its security. "Today I presented my resignation to the president…
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A former soldier says life as a woman in the world's fourth-largest army was so tough that most soon stopped menstruating. And rape, she says, was a fact of life for many of those she served with. For almost 10 years Lee So Yeon slept on…
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Robert Mugabe has resigned as president of Zimbabwe with immediate effect after 37 years in power, the speaker of the country’s parliament has said. The announcement came during a parliamentary hearing to impeach him and launches the…
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One protester was killed in Nairobi’s Kibera slum, while a paramedic tending the injured at a demonstration in western Migori was also shot dead, Kenya police said.* Kenya’s Supreme Court had on Monday validated the election victory of…
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