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Nigeria inflation hits highest rate in nearly 30 years

Nigeria inflation hits highest rate in nearly 30 years

Nigeria's annual inflation rate has reached its highest level in nearly three decades.

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Chibok girls feel let down 10 years after Nigeria kidnapping

Chibok girls feel let down 10 years after Nigeria kidnapping

We had to meet Lisu in secret as she says the local Nigerian authorities are trying...

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Transgender celebrity sentenced to six months in male prison

Transgender celebrity sentenced to six months in male prison

One of Nigeria's most popular celebrities, a transgender woman known as Bobrisky,...

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Sudan civil war: The children living between starvation and death in Darfur

Sudan civil war: The children living between starvation...

The woman with sad eyes and a quiet voice is just one of the millions of people...

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Mozambique ferry disaster: 'I survived - but lost 17 of my family'

Mozambique ferry disaster: 'I survived - but lost 17 of...

"I don't know how I managed to escape - I can't swim," says Muaziza Ambaraje.

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Russian troops arrive in Niger as military agreement begins

Russian troops arrive in Niger as military agreement begins

Dozens of Russian military instructors have arrived in Niger as part of a new agreement...

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Cape Town's digital nomads: Where idyllic lifestyle clashes with local needs

Cape Town's digital nomads: Where idyllic lifestyle clashes...

Digital nomads - the laptop-wielding new generation of remote workers - have found...

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Zimbabwe declares state of disaster over drought sweeping across southern Africa

Zimbabwe declares state of disaster over drought sweeping...

President Emmerson Mnangagwa also called for two billion dollars (£1.6bn) in humanitarian...

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Mozambique: At least 94 dead and 26 missing after makeshift ferry sinks off coast of East Africa

Mozambique: At least 94 dead and 26 missing after makeshift...

The overcrowded vessel was carrying people who were fleeing a cholera outbreak that...

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Rwanda: My return home 30 years after genocide

Rwanda: My return home 30 years after genocide

I left my home in Rwanda, the country of my birth, 30 years ago at the age of 12...

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Hardest Geezer Russ Cook runs the entire length of Africa

Hardest Geezer Russ Cook runs the entire length of Africa

Before he set off on the mammoth challenge to run the entire length of Africa, Russell...

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Why scores of dogs will honour a Great Dane in Cape Town this weekend

Why scores of dogs will honour a Great Dane in Cape Town...

A quaint local festival celebrates the life of the first dog to receive a Royal...

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Why mass kidnappings still plague Nigeria a decade after Chibok abductions

Why mass kidnappings still plague Nigeria a decade after...

Nigeria, with one of the strongest armies in the region, is struggling to tackle...

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Uganda’s Constitutional Court rejects petition against anti-gay law

Uganda’s Constitutional Court rejects petition against...

Anti-Homosexuality Act 2023 imposes penalties of up to life in prison for consensual...

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Ethiopia’s army accused of committing war crimes in Amhara region

Ethiopia’s army accused of committing war crimes in Amhara...

Human Rights Watch says Ethiopia’s army ‘summarily executed’ several dozen civilians...

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