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March 17, 2024
UN chief condemns attack on peacekeepers in DR Congo
March 17, 2024
EU announces €7.3 billion package of aid for Egypt
March 17, 2024
Niger ends military agreement with US, calls it ‘profoundly unfair’
March 14, 2024
Nigeria kidnappers threaten to kill all 287 schoolchildren if ransom is not paid
March 13, 2024
Rwandan opposition leader Victoire Ingabire barred from election
March 10, 2024
Ugandan man behind viral fake East African currency shocked by its success
March 09, 2024
28 schoolchildren escape captors in Nigeria
LAGOS — Suspected militants kidnapped 50 people, mostly women, in northeastern Nigeria this week in the latest mass abduction by fighters who have waged an insurgency for more than a decade, Reuters reported on Wednesday quoting local officials.Boko Haram and Islamic State West Africa Province (ISWAP) fighters have mainly operated in Borno state in the northeast, targeting security forces and civilians, in the process killing and displacing tens of thousands of people.The latest incident took place on Monday in the remote Gamboru area, which shares a border with Chad and Cameroon, said an official of the Civilian Joint Task Force, which helps the army to fight the jihadists.The official, who declined to be named because he was not authorized to speak to the media, said the group of at...
March 07, 2024
Terror strikes in northeast Nigeria as suspected insurgents abduct 50
March 07, 2024
World’s largest hunger crisis looms in Sudan, UN warns, as humanitarian response hits ‘breaking point’
DAKAR — Senegalese President Macky Sall has scheduled the country’s presidential election for March 24, the government said in a statement on Wednesday.“The President of the Republic informed the Council of Ministers that the date of the presidential election has been set for Sunday, March 24, 2024,” the statement read.The election was initially slated for February 25 but was postponed by Sall, sparking protests across the West African nation, with angry youths burning tires in the streets in protest.However, Senegal’s Constitutional Council barred his attempts to delay the election, ruling that it must be held before April 2, when Sall’s second and final term expires.Earlier on Wednesday, Sall dissolved the government and announced that sitting Prime Minister Amadou Ba would...
March 07, 2024
Senegal sets election date after protests sparked by delay