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President Muhammadu Buhari last  Friday received the attestation certificate and confirmation of school certificate result from the West African Examination Council, WAEC. President Buhari had been under attack after he failed to submit…
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Nineteen Islamist militants accused of carrying out a deadly attack on Christians in Egypt have been killed by police, the interior ministry says. They died in a shoot-out after police pursued "fugitive terrorist elements" into the…
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Men from a small Zimbabwean town have reportedly pleaded with condom manufacturers to supply them with larger condoms, saying those available in local shops were "too small for them". According to New Zimbabwe.com, men from Mpandawana…
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Gabon's opposition leader Jean Ping has again claimed victory in elections held in 2016, as President Ali Bongo is being treated in a hospital abroad. Speaking in Libreville, Mr Ping urged the nation to overcome its divisions and rally…
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South Africa's state-owned airline should be shut down, the country's new finance minister has said. "It's loss-making, we are unlikely to sort out the situation, so my view would be close it down," Tito Mboweni told an investor…
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Google employees in Asia kicked off a global protest on Thursday over how the company deals with sexual harassment. The demonstrations, dubbed "Google Walkout," follow an outcry over a New York Times investigation that detailed years of…
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Humans have proven adept at wiping out vast numbers of animals. Can we atone by saving species through captivity breeding? When 200 captive-bred frogs were set free in an ancestral swampland in South Africa recently, their simple…
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North Korean officials commit sexual abuse against women with near total impunity, according to a report from rights group Human Rights Watch (HRW). HRW said such abuse is so common it has become part of ordinary life. The report is…
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An Australian cafe has been inundated with fake negative reviews online due to an "inadvertent" coincidence on a high school English exam. The state-wide exam in Victoria had featured a question involving a restaurant review of a…
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"Exploding human consumption" has caused a massive drop in the global wildlife population in recent decades, the WWF conservation group says. In a report, the charity says losses in vertebrate species - mammals, fish, birds, amphibians…
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