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Monday, August 3rd, 2015
Melinda Gates fetches water in Malawi Wife of the richest man in the world, Melinda Gates, was pictured on Saturday carrying on her head a bucket of water fetched from a village in Malawi. Net worth of the United States’ billionaire Bill Gates, according to Forbes magazine‘s annual list of the world’s billionaires, stands at […]
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Monday, July 27th, 2015

President Muhammadu Buhari will travel to neighbouring Cameroon tomorrow to consult with his counterpart Paul Biya on Boko Haram’s insurgency, presidential spokesman, Femi Adesina has said. “President Buhari is going to Cameroon on Wednesday. He will hold talks with President Biya on arrival and the issue of Boko Haram will be central in their discussion,” […]
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Friday, July 10th, 2015
’Tunji Ajibade South African government officials will make good dramatists. But if they ever win an award, I won’t clap for them. After they saw to it that Omar Hassan al-Bashir, safely left South Africa the other time, government officials had it reported that the Sudanese president escaped in the course of the African […]
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Africa & World Politics, American Politics, Headlines
Monday, July 6th, 2015
Zimbabwe’s President Robert Mugabe clinches his fist while shouting ‘Amandla’ (Power in Xhosa and Zulu) during the signing of various memorandum of understanding with South Africa at the Union Buildings in Pretoria on April 8, 2015. STEFAN HEUNIS/AFP/Getty Images Zimbabwe’s President Robert Mugabe jokingly said he would travel to the White House and propose to […]
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Tuesday, June 30th, 2015
Yazidi women, released by Islamic State group militants in April. (AP Photo) The Islamic State has beheaded two female civilians for the first time — for “witchcraft and sorcery.” Head of the Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, who goes by the pseudonym Rami Abdulrahman — a source cited by the New York Times and The Washington Post […]
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Friday, June 26th, 2015
At least 27 people have been killed, including foreigners, in an attack on a beach near two tourist hotels in the Tunisian resort town of Sousse, according to the interior ministry. Officials say one gunman has been shot dead and another is being pursued. Tunisia has been on high alert since March when militants killed […]
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Tuesday, June 23rd, 2015
South Sudan’s government has declared cholera outbreak in the capital city, where at least 18 people died and 171 cases were confirmed. “After subjecting those [suspected] cases to analysis … we confirm beyond doubt that there is an outbreak of cholera in Juba,” Health Minister Dr Riek Gai Kok told journalists in Juba on Tuesday. […]
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Africa & World Politics, Boko Haram, Headlines
Thursday, June 18th, 2015
An attack by suspected Islamist Boko Haram fighters in neighbouring Niger Republic has killed at least 38 people, officials say. The attack took place late on Wednesday night, according to a security source quoted by Reuters. A member of the local parliament, Bulu Mammadu, also told the BBC that the victims included women and children, […]
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Sunday, June 14th, 2015
Omar al-Bashir A South African judge on Sunday banned Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir from leaving the country after the International Criminal Court called for him to be arrested at a summit in Johannesburg. Bashir, who is wanted for alleged war crimes, crimes against humanity and genocide in the Darfur conflict, mostly travels to countries […]
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Africa & World Politics, Headlines, Olusegun Obasanjo (1976-79, 99-07), Presidency
Sunday, June 14th, 2015
Speaks on Europe, US and African immigrants dying at sea Dr. Patrick Dele Cole served during the first term of former President Olusegun Obasanjo as Special Adviser on International Relations. In this piece, Cole speaks on the ill of African immigration to Europe. War costs money and, at the end, someone has to pay. In the 17th, […]