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21/05/2022

Monkeypox is most common in remote parts of Central and West Africa.

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19/09/2021

- Italy will likely decide whether or not to decriminalize cannabis in a referendum next year, after campaign groups managed to gather the required 500,000 signatures in a week.

04/09/2021

With Chad's withdrawal of troops and the imminent reduction in French troop strength from the vast Sahel region of West Africa - where jihadist groups continue to stage attack after attack, targeting civilians and soldiers without discrimination - new anti-terror tactics are afoot.
Defence ministers from the G5 Sahel countries - Burkina Faso, Chad, Mali, Mauritania and Niger - are planning more joint military operations and greater "hearts and minds" engagement.

16/08/2021

Zambian opposition leader Hakainde Hichilema has been declared the winner of last week's bitterly contested presidential election.
Mr Hichilema defeated the incumbent, President Edgar Lungu, by a landslide - more than a million votes.

10/08/2021

The Nigerian government is demanding punishment for Indonesian immigration officials who were filmed assaulting a Nigerian diplomat.
Footage circulating on social media showed Abdulrahman Ibrahim, a consular officer based in Jakarta, being held down in a vehicle by several men.
Nigeria called it "an egregious act of international delinquency by the Indonesian state".
It vowed to review bilateral relations with the south-east Asian nation.

08/08/2021

Abba Kyari has a reputation in Nigeria as a "super cop".
He is a highly decorated police officer who investigates big criminal cases. And he hangs out with politicians and celebrities.
But Mr Kyari's reputation has come under scrutiny since US law enforcement agencies indicated that he is wanted over allegations of links to Instagram influencer and fraudster Ray Hushpuppi.
The policeman denies any wrongdoing.

02/08/2021

Home to more than 24 million people, Lagos, a low-lying city on Nigeria's Atlantic coast, may become uninhabitable by the end of this century as sea levels rise due to climate change, scientific projections suggest.

30/07/2021

FBI investigating Nigeria's 'super cop' in Instagram influencer HushPuppi fraud case.

A high-ranking Nigerian police officer is being investigated by the FBI for allegedly making an arrest at the request of Instagram influencer Ramon Abbas, who has pleaded guilty to money laundering, according to the US Justice Department.

25/07/2021

Kidnappers in Nigeria have seized a man who was sent to deliver a ransom payment to secure the release of dozens of abducted school children.
The elderly man was sent by the children's parents after they managed to raise 30m naira ($73,000; £53,000) by selling land and other possessions.
But they have been left feeling hopeless following his kidnapping.
The north of the country is in the midst of a wave of school abductions carried out by criminals for profit.

19/07/2021

A plane hunting kidnappers in northern Nigeria has been shot down by criminal gangs, the military says.
A spokesman for the Nigerian Air Force said the Alpha Jet had completed a successful raid when it came under intense fire on Sunday.
He said the pilot, Flight Lt Abayomi Dairo, ejected and used "survival instincts" to avoid capture and find shelter with local residents.
The attack happened on the border of Zamfara and Kaduna states.

19/07/2021

Lewis Hamilton has been the target of racist abuse on social media after his victory at Sunday's British Grand Prix.
Hamilton received a 10-second penalty after a collision with title rival Max Verstappen during the first lap of the race, which led to the Dutchman crashing out.
Mercedes, F1 and governing body the FIA condemned the abuse "in the strongest possible terms".
"These people have no place in our sport

16/07/2021

South Africa President Cyril Ramaphosa has said the violence that has rocked the country was pre-planned, describing it as an assault on democracy.
Riots were sparked by the jailing of former President Jacob Zuma.

11/07/2021

Dozens of people have been arrested in South Africa as violence spreads following the jailing of former president Jacob Zuma.
Pro-Zuma protesters first took to the streets after the 79-year-old handed himself to authorities on Wednesday to begin a 15-month sentence.
But police now say criminals are taking advantage of the chaos, which spread from his home province of KwaZulu-Natal to Johannesburg, in Gauteng.
More than 60 people have been arrested.

06/07/2021

Gunmen in Nigeria have kidnapped at least 140 schoolchildren in the north-west of the country, police say.
At least eight people were also abducted from the National Tuberculosis and Leprosy Centre in Zaria early on Sunday morning.
Two nurses and a 12-month-old child were among those seized, said a hospital worker.
There has been a recent spate of abductions from schools and universities for ransom.

04/07/2021

Crystal Palace have appointed Patrick Vieira to succeed Roy Hodgson as the Premier League club's manager.
The former Arsenal captain emerged as Palace's preferred candidate after a lengthy process since Hodgson announced he was leaving the club on 18 May.
The 45-year-old Frenchman has signed a three-year contract with the Eagles, who finished 14th last season.
"I am really excited to have this opportunity to return to the Premier League," said Vieira.

03/07/2021

30/06/2021

Bill Cosby will be released after the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania vacated his conviction and judgment of sentence, according Stacey Witalec, spokesman for Pennsylvania's highest court.

29/06/2021

- Nigerian separatist leader, Nnamdi Kanu, was located and brought back to Nigeria to face trial for terrorism, Nigeria's Minister of Justice, Abubakar Malami, said in a press conference. Kanu is alleged to have gone missing when he failed to appear in court in 2015 and his whereabouts prior to the arrest was unknown. Officials did not disclose where he was apprehended.

29/06/2021

South Africa's former President Jacob Zuma has been sentenced to 15 months by the highest court in the country.
He has been given five days to hand himself in to police. Failing that, the police minister must order his arrest.
The jail sentence comes after the Constitutional Court found him guilty of contempt for defying its order to appear at an inquiry into corruption while he was president.
Mr Zuma's time in power, which ended in 2018, was dogged by graft allegations.

24/06/2021

Egypt is trying to strengthen its diplomatic and military clout in Africa amid an escalating dispute with Ethiopia over the building of a huge dam on a tributary of the River Nile, writes Egypt analyst Magdi Abdelhadi.
The Egyptian Geographic Society, established in 1875, houses some valuable manuscripts that reflect Egypt's long-standing interest in sub-Saharan Africa.

22/06/2021

A TikTok star has been detained in Egypt, two days after she and another influencer were convicted of human trafficking and given long jail terms.
Haneen Hossam, 20, posted a video on Monday in which she asked for clemency, saying she had never harmed anyone.
On Sunday, a court in Cairo sentenced her in absentia to 10 years in prison. Co-defendant Mawada al-Adham, 23, who was present, was sentenced to six.
They were accused of exploiting girls through video-sharing apps for money.

17/06/2021

Many African countries are facing a "growing crisis" of severe oxygen shortages which is leading to preventable deaths, international health agencies have warned.

15/06/2021

A su***de bomber has killed at least 10 people at an army training camp in Somalia's capital, Mogadishu.
Many of the injured have been taken to hospital.
The attacker was waiting among new recruits who were queuing up outside the camp.
No group has said it was behind the attack, but security facilities are a common target for Islamist militant group al-Shabab.

13/06/2021

Benjamin Netanyahu has lost his 12-year hold on power in Israel after its parliament voted in a new coalition government.
Right-wing nationalist Naftali Bennett has been sworn in as prime minister, leading a "government of change".

13/06/2021

UFC middleweight champion Israel Adesanya cruised to victory over Marvin Vettori as he retained his undisputed 185-pound title in the main event of UFC 263 in Glendale, Arizona.
The pair had previously met, when Adesanya claimed a split-decision victory over Vettori in April 2018 in the Nigerian-born Kiwi's second UFC bout.
But in Saturday night's rematch Adesanya, 31, showed his class with a virtuoso performance as he picked apart the Italian over the full five-round championship duration at the Gila River Arena.

13/06/2021

12/06/2021

Nigeria's President Muhammadu Buhari has admitted that he has failed to end insecurity in the country, a promise he made when he was elected in 2015.

12/06/2021

Founded with the noble ambition of uniting the continent, a session of the Pan-African Parliament (PAP) recently descended into farce with some members fighting and threatening to kill each other.

10/06/2021

Dengue fever cases have been cut by 77% in a "groundbreaking" trial that manipulates the mosquitoes that spread it, say scientists.
They used mosquitoes infected with "miraculous" bacteria that reduce the insect's ability to spread dengue.
The trial took place in Yogyakarta city, Indonesia, and is being expanded in the hope of eradicating the virus.

09/06/2021

South African President Cyril Ramaphosa placed Health Minister Zweli Mkhize "on special leave" Tuesday pending an investigation into the awarding of Department of Health contracts to a communications company staffed by former aides.

07/06/2021

The leader of the Nigerian militant group Boko Haram, Abubakar Shekau, has killed himself, rival Islamist militants said in an audio recording.
In audio obtained by news agencies, the Islamic State West Africa Province (Iswap) said Shekau died detonating explosives on himself after a battle between the two groups.
Shekau was reported dead last month and has been reported killed before.
Neither Boko Haram nor the Nigerian government have confirmed his death.

06/06/2021

Abuja, Nigeria - The Nigerian government has ordered federal prosecutors to arrest and prosecute users of the Twitter app, after a ban on the social media company took effect on Friday.

04/06/2021

Nigeria's government is suspending Twitter operations in the country "indefinitely", the country's information minister has announced.
The ban is due to "the persistent use of the platform for activities... capable of undermining Nigeria's corporate existence", according to a statement released on Friday.
It comes just days after a tweet by President Muhammadu Buhari was removed for breaching the site's rules.
The statement did not mention the row.

04/06/2021

A serial jailbreaker has captured Senegal's imagination after escaping from prison for what he says is the 12th time.
After he escaped in May, Baye Modou Fall described on Senegalese TV how he broke out of prison by breaking a ventilation grill and climbing over a wall using a rope.
He says he had been waiting trial for nine years and some lawyers say his case highlights the need to reform Senegal's justice system.

02/06/2021

Twitter has removed a post by Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari for violating its rules.
The tweet referred to the 1967-70 Nigerian Civil War and to treating "those misbehaving today" in "the language they will understand".
It follows a recent spate of attacks on offices, mainly in the south-east, blamed on regional secessionists.

01/06/2021

Gunmen have attacked and wounded Uganda's Transport Minister and former army commander, Gen Katumba Wamala, killing his daughter and driver.

31/05/2021

Nigerian officials say gunmen have kidnapped many students from an Islamic school in Nigeria - the latest in a series of such attacks on schools.

29/05/2021

Mali's constitutional court has named the leader of the country's military coup, Colonel Assimi Goïta, as its transitional president.
Col Goïta had already declared himself interim president on Wednesday, two days after seizing power in Mali's second coup in nine months.
He also led the first coup last August, which saw the elected President Ibrahim Boubacar Keïta forced out of office.
The court said Friday's decision was due to the "vacancy in the presidency".

28/05/2021

Liberia spent $71,000 (£50,000) to transport three small boxes containing a herbal tonic made in Madagascar that had been touted as a cure for Covid-19, the health ministry has said.

The revelation has sparked controversy in the country, especially after the ministry changed its earlier statement that the tonic was a donation from the Madagascar government and that the Liberian government only paid to transport the three small boxes.