A Palestinian TV channel says five of its journalists have been killed in an Israeli strike in the central Gaza Strip. They were in a Quds Today van parked outside al-Awda hospital, where the wife of one of the journalists…
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More than 1 500 prisoners have escaped from a prison in Mozambique this week, taking advantage of ongoing political unrest triggered by disputed election results, police say. Thirty-three people were killed and 15 injured in clashes with guards, police chief…
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WRITTEN BY: NADINE YOUSIF Canada’s finance minister, Chrystia Freeland, has resigned from her post, citing disagreements with prime minister Justin Trudeau on how to respond to incoming US president Donald Trump’s threat of tariffs. She announced her resignation in a…
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Angolan tycoon Isabel dos Santos, once dubbed ‘Africa’s richest woman’, has hit out at the United Kingdom (UK) for imposing sanctions on her, telling the BBC the move came as a surprise as she had not been found guilty of…
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Dola Posh has multiple identities: photographer, woman, Nigerian, mother, Briton. Yet after giving birth, she no longer felt sure who she was. Six days after her daughter was born, she was lying in a bed in an English hospital, in…
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US President Joe Biden has said he is “very proud to be the first American president visiting Angola” at the start of talks with his counterpart João Lourenço. Discussions at the presidential palace in the capital, Luanda, were on security…
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Petrol production at Nigerian business tycoon Aliko Dangote’s US$2 billion (about N$36 billion) state-of-the-art oil refinery ought to be some of the best business news Nigeria has had in years. But many Nigerians will judge its success on two key…
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What the rest of the world sees as a sex tape scandal could in fact be the latest episode in the real-life drama over who will become Equatorial Guinea’s next president. Over the past fortnight, dozens of videos – estimates…
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A journalist detained in an Eritrean prison without trial for 23 years has won a Swedish human rights prize for his commitment to freedom of expression. Dawit Isaak, who holds dual Eritrean-Swedish citizenship, was given the Edelstam Prize “for his……
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The prime minister of Mauritius has accepted that his coalition, L’Alliance Lepep, has suffered a “huge defeat” following Sunday’s parliamentary election. “The population has decided to choose another team,” prime minister Pravind Jugnauth told journalists yesterday. Jugnauth was seeking a…
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Quincy jones lived for 50 years after attending his own memorial service. When the musician suffered a brain aneurysm in 1974, his chances of survival were said to be so slim, and his stature so high, that his famous friends…
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