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Brexit: UK to Consider Longer Transition Period
The UK's transition out of the EU could be extended by "a matter of months" to ensure there is no visible border in Northern Ireland, Theresa May has said.
The prime minister said this was a new idea that had emerged in negotiations and…
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Codeine Syrup Addiction: Nigerian Arrested After BBC Expose
A former Nigerian pharmaceuticals executive who was implicated in a BBC investigation into the illegal sale of addictive opioids has been arrested.
Chukwunonye Madubuike was detained west of Lagos, close to the border with Benin, police…
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Crimea Attack: Gun Attack at Kerch College Kills 19
At least 19 people have been killed and dozens more wounded in a shooting at a college in Russian-annexed Crimea.
An 18-year-old student ran through the Kerch technical college firing at fellow pupils before killing himself, Russian…
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Gambia Launches Truth And Reconciliation Commission
Gambia has launched a truth and reconciliation commission to look into human rights abuses carried out during the rule of former President Yahya Jammeh.
Eleven commissioners were sworn in at a ceremony in the capital, Banjul.Justice…
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Uganda Says Landslide Death Toll Rises To 43, Begins Relocations
The death toll from a landslide in Uganda last week has risen to 43 and displaced residents deemed most at risk in the disaster-prone region will be resettled immediately, the government said on Tuesday.
Torrential rains unleashed a…
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China’s Third Quarter GDP Growth Records Lowest Since 2009 – Reuters poll
At week’s end, global investors and policy makers will likely be given a stark reminder of the costs of a bitter Sino-U.S. trade war, with a Reuters poll predicting that China’s third-quarter growth will slow to its weakest pace since the…
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Ethiopia Gets First Female Defence Minister
Ethiopia's Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed has appointed the country's first female defence minister in a new cabinet in which half the posts are taken up by women.
Aisha Mohammed, from the country's Afar region in the north-east, had served as…
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Morocco Train Crash: Rabat Derailment ‘Kills Four’
At least four people died and dozens more were injured when a train derailed near Morocco's capital Rabat, reports say.
Reuters news agency quotes an official who says up to eight people may have died, with 80 more injured.
The incident…
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Boko Haram Faction Kills Second Aid Worker in Nigeria
An aid worker with the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) has been killed in Nigeria by Islamist militants who kidnapped her last March.
Hauwa Liman, a midwife, was killed days after kidnappers set a deadline.
The ICRC said…
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Kenya Unveils Biblical Strategy to Tackle Corruption
In our series of letters from African journalists, Kenyan Joseph Warungu looks at the new strategy by the country's anti-corruption body to use the Bible to deter theft of public funds.
You know you are in deep trouble when nothing else…
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