Nigeria: Nollywood Actor, Ibu, Dies At 62
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March 3, 2024, 4:59 AM
[Daily Trust] Nollywood veteran, John Okafor, also popularly known as 'Mr Ibu' has passed away at the age of 62.
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Nigeria: Minister Mourns Mr Ibu, Says Death One Too Many
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March 3, 2024, 4:59 AM
[Leadership] The Minister of Arts, Culture and Creative, Hannatu Musa Musawa has described the passage, on Saturday, of Nollywood actor, John Okafor, popularly known as Mr Ibu, as one death too many.
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Somalia: Somali Foreign Minister Says Will Never Accept Ethiopia's 'Attempt' to Annex Territory
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March 2, 2024, 1:48 PM
[Shabelle] Mogadishu, Somalia -- Somalia would never accept an attempt to annex a part of its territory, the country's acting minister for foreign affairs and international cooperation said on Friday, commenting on a sea access deal between Ethiopia and the breakaway region of Somaliland.
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Tanzania: Ali Hassan Mwinyi - the Tanzanian Former President Who Oversaw the Transition to Market Economy
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March 2, 2024, 4:12 PM
[The Conversation Africa] Ali Hassan Mwinyi, Tanzania's second president who has died aged 98, pushed through tough economic and political reforms that transformed the East Africa nation from socialism to an open economy and a multi-party democracy. He was president from 1985 to 1995.
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Zimbabwe: Bomb Scare Forces Zimbabwe's President to Abort Landing
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March 2, 2024, 1:41 PM
[VOA] Harare, Zimbabwe -- An aircraft carrying Zimbabwean President Emmerson Mnangagwa aborted a landing Friday in the city of Victoria Falls, where he was supposed to attend an international conference, after authorities received an email of a "credible bomb-firearm threat."
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Africa: Why Some African Countries Have Strange Shapes
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March 2, 2024, 1:24 PM
[DW] Arbitrary boundaries were drawn on maps to separate European colonies in Africa. Most of those lines drawn on a Berlin Conference table between 1884 and 1885 are still in place today - with deadly consequences.
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Nigeria: Govt Launches 'Mining Marshals' to Curb Illegal Mining
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March 2, 2024, 1:10 PM
[Daily Trust] The federal government has launched "Mining Marshals" for the Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps (NSCDC) to checkmate illegal mining of solid minerals across the country.
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Senegal: Record Number of Journalists in Senegal's Jails Amid Political Turmoil
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March 2, 2024, 1:08 PM
[CPJ] Senegalese reporter Ndèye Maty Niang, also known as Maty Sarr Niang, would have likely jumped at the chance to report on the political crisis gripping her country since the president postponed elections in early February. But Niang can't cover the news - she's in a women's prison awaiting trial.
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Zimbabwe: Bomb Scare Forces Plane Carrying President to Turn Back
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March 1, 2024, 3:10 PM
[New Zimbabwe] A BOMB scare at Victoria Falls International Airport has forced President Emmerson Mnangagwa's Falcon 7X aircraft to be turned back to Harare.
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Sudan: Sudanese Groups Form Alliance 'To Stop the War By Fighting Corruption'
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March 1, 2024, 3:02 PM
[Dabanga] Addis Ababa -- Five prominent Sudanese organisations agreed to establish an anti-corruption alliance at the end of the Sudan Business for Peace conference in the Ethiopian capital of Addis Ababa yesterday.
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Africa: Global Terrorist Killings in 2023 - Burkina Faso Suffers in First Place
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March 1, 2024, 12:36 PM
[allAfrica] Monrovia -- The Institute for Economics and Peace has released its latest report on the state of terrorism around the world. The 2023 report, dubbed the Global Terrorism Index, shows a dramatic rise in the number of terrorism-related deaths while revealing that the Sahel region of Sub-Saharan Africa witnessed more deaths from terrorism than the much-publicized Middle East.
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South Africa: Textile Artist Lizette Chirrime Launches Fashion Line in Cape Town
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March 1, 2024, 11:15 AM
[allAfrica] Cape Town -- Renowned Mozambican abstract textile artist Lizette Chirrime is showing her first artistic fashion line in Cape Town, South Africa, as the first presentation by Art Africa of their Community Residency program.
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South Africa: South Africa's Online Election Talk Heats Up
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March 1, 2024, 7:42 AM
[allAfrica] South Africa's online election conversation is heating up - and key points and concerns are emerging, according to the Centre for Analytics and Behavioural Change (CABC).
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South Africa: 3 Dead in Braamfontein Shooting, Police Seek Suspects - South African News Briefs - March 1, 2024
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March 1, 2024, 5:07 AM
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Uganda: Bobi Wine Punches Holes in Mpuuga's Defence
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March 2, 2024, 1:50 PM
[Nile Post] The President of the National Unity Platform (NUP), Robert Kyagulanyi, has insisted that Mathias Mpuuga admitted to wrongdoing and apologised for corruption and abuse of office during a meeting with leaders of the party.
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Eritrea: Eritrea Admits Military Presence in Badme and Disputed Territories, Denies Occupation
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March 2, 2024, 1:47 PM
[Reporter] Asmara says territories belong to Eritrea under 2000 Algiers Agreement
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Kenya: Kenya, 5 Nations Offer Personnel to Help Haiti Fight Gang Violence
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March 2, 2024, 1:45 PM
[Independent (Kampala)] United Nations -- Five countries are committed to providing personnel for an international police force to help Haiti battle gang violence, a UN spokesman said on Thursday.
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Nigeria: Withheld Salaries - Stop Treating Us Like ASUU, We Never Went On Strike - - Conua Tells Tinubu
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March 2, 2024, 1:44 PM
[Premium Times] CONUA however aligned with ASUU in the call for reinstatement of the universities' dissolved governing councils, saying Mr Tinubu's action violates the Universities Autonomy Act, 2007.
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Ghana: Ghana's New Anti-Homosexuality Bill Violates Everyone's Rights, Not Just LGBTIQ+ People - Expert
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March 2, 2024, 4:08 PM
[The Conversation Africa] Ghana's new anti-homosexuality bill infringes several rights and freedoms, not only of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, intersex and queer (LGBTIQ+) people but of heterosexuals too. The bill has been in the works since 2021 when it was tabled in parliament as a private member's bill.
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Uganda: Anti-Graft Campaigners Ask Mpuuga, Commissioners to Resign
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March 2, 2024, 1:40 PM
[Nile Post] Former Leader of Opposition in Parliament (LoP) Mathias Mpuuga has dominated headlines this week for bad reasons.
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Nigeria: Nollywood Loses Another Actor, Sisi Quadri
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March 2, 2024, 1:38 PM
[Vanguard] The Yoruba sector of the Nigerian movie industry has been thrown into mourning after the news of the death of Quadri Oyebamiji Tolani popularly known as Sisi Quadri surfaced on social media.
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Nigeria: Central Bank Revokes Operating Licenses of Thousands of Forex Bureaus
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March 2, 2024, 1:27 PM
[Premium Times] The Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) has revoked the operational licences of 4,173 Bureaux De Change operators in the country.
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Kenya: Late Kiptum Posthumously Named 2023 Sportsman of the Year
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March 2, 2024, 1:25 PM
[Capital FM] Nairobi -- The late Kelvin Kiptum has been posthumously named as the 2023 Sportsman of the Year, at the Sports Personality of the Year Awards (SOYA) staged Friday night at the Kenyatta International Convention Centre.
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Nigeria: Advocacy Groups Call for Halt to Shell's Planned Exit From Nigeria
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March 2, 2024, 1:24 PM
[VOA] Abuja, Nigeria -- Advocacy groups are calling on the Dutch oil giant Shell to halt its plans to divest assets from Nigeria's Niger Delta region unless proper cleanup and decommissioning of its infrastructure is complete.
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Ethiopia: Fighting Resumes Between Ethiopian Government and Militants
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March 2, 2024, 1:23 PM
[VOA] Fighting broke out Friday between Ethiopian government forces and members of the Fano militia in Bahir Dar -- the capital of the Amhara region -- according to residents and the regional administration.
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Burkina Faso: Statement On the Escalation of Violence Against Civilians in Burkina Faso
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March 2, 2024, 1:08 PM
[State Department] The United States is gravely concerned by the rise in violence against civilians in northern and eastern Burkina Faso in late February.
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Nigeria: Power Supply Problem Denies Nigerians Access to Good Life - Minister of Power
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March 1, 2024, 3:10 PM
[Vanguard] The Federal Government yesterday acknowledged that the abysmal level of power supply in the country is denying citizens the opportunity to live a good life.
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Ethiopia: 250,000 Students May Drop Out Due to Starvation - Tigray Education Bureau
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March 1, 2024, 2:03 PM
[Addis Standard] Addis Abeba -- The Tigray Education Bureau has issued a stark warning, indicating more than a quarter of a million students are at risk of discontinuing their education due to the imminent threat of starvation resulting from the ongoing drought crisis.
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Senegal: Senegal Opposition Demands Election to Pick New President By April
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March 1, 2024, 12:59 PM
[RFI] Senegal's President Macky Sall has again insisted he will leave power on 2 April, the day his mandate ends, despite postponing the election that would have picked his successor. The opposition has demanded that the vote be held before Sall's term is up, but so far the president has only committed to calling an election before the end of July.
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Ethiopia: Silent Suffering - Tales of Violence Against Women Echo Across Conflict-Hit Western Oromia
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March 1, 2024, 10:42 AM
[Addis Standard] Addis Abeba -- When the residents of the Jardega Jarte district within the Horro Guduru Wollega Zone of the Oromia region were compelled to evacuate their residences in pursuit of safety subsequent to what locals characterized as "an assault perpetrated by Fano" in September 2023, the trajectory of Hana Tadesse's life (pseudonym) took an irreversibly adverse turn.
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