West Africa
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Africa
UK troops seize IS weapons in Mali operation
AK47 rifles and hundreds of rounds of ammunition are among a cache of suspected Islamic State weapons that have been…
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West Africa accounts for 16% of world road crashes, fatalities – FRSC
Corps Commander Olusegun Ogungbemide, Sector Commander, Federal Road Safety Corps (FRSC), Lagos has said that West Africa generated 16 per…
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Africa
Collapsed goldmine kills 15 in Guinea
At least 15 people have been killed by a landslide at a clandestine gold mine in Guinea’s north-eastern Siguiri region.…
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Africa
Sierra Leone at 60: Celebrations worthwhile after 11 years of Civil War – Osinbajo
Nigeria and some other West African countries were appreciated yesterday by the Sierra Leonean government as the country marked its…
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Africa
Attackers on trucks and motorbikes raid Mali base, kill 33 troops
At least 33 Malian soldiers have been killed and 14 wounded in an attack on a military post in the…
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Nigeria’s Aboki becomes new WATRA Executive Secretary
Engr. Aliu Yusuf Aboki, Nigeria’s candidate, has emerged the Executive Secretary of West Africa Telecommunications Regulators Assembly (WATRA) after voting…
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Africa
Nigerien runoff: Buhari praises outgoing President Issoufou for following constitution
Outgoing President Mahamadou Issoufou of Republic of Niger and his government deserve accolades for keeping scrupulously to their country’s Constitution…
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Africa
Guinea declares Ebola epidemic after three deaths
Guinea has officially declared that it is dealing with an Ebola epidemic after the deaths of at least three people…
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Africa
Liberian ex-minister to return $1.2m pension fund
Liberian Supreme Court has upheld a lower court’s guilty verdict against a former Defence Minister, Brownie Samukai, for misusing soldiers’…
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Africa
Senegal reports bird flu outbreak on poultry farm
Senegal has reported an outbreak of the highly pathogenic H5N1 bird flu on a poultry farm, the World Organisation for…