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Gunmen have shot dead at least 21 people in two attacks in central Nigeria’s Plateau state, officials have told me. Seven of the fatalities occurred when gunmen on foot opened fire indiscriminately on a small crowd of people near a bar and…
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Kathryn Mayorga, the former teacher who has accused footballer Cristiano Ronaldo of raping her in 2009, was inspired to speak out by the #MeToo movement, her lawyer has said. "The MeToo movement and the women who have stood up and…
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Russian spies have been accused of involvement in a series of cyber-plots across the globe, leading the US to level charges against seven agents. The US justice department said targets included the global chemical weapons watchdog,…
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Uganda's army has launched its own brand of condoms, named after the Swahili word for "protection", to help prevent soldiers contract HIV. A soldier cannot defend his country if he "does not ensure that he's safe", said Chief of Staff Brig…
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Three pupils have been killed after being struck by lightning in Uganda's north-western district of Yumbe. Ugandan Red Cross Society spokeswoman Irene Nakasiita confirmed that the pupils aged between 9 and 10 died on the spot at Mungoyo…
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A Saudi woman has reportedly lost a legal battle to marry the man of her choice after her family objected because he played a musical instrument. Relatives of the woman, a bank manager, refused to allow her to wed the man, a teacher,…
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Ibrahim Sherifo, 30, has not seen or heard from his parents since he was 13 years old when they were "disappeared" in Eritrea. "The memory still haunts me - that black Tuesday in September 2001 - that day changed my life forever," he…
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About 60 migrants are feared to have drowned when a wooden boat capsized during a storm off Guinea-Bissau. The country's navy was unable to help when the boat went down on Monday as it lacked the resources, national ports head Felix Siga…
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More than 1,733 African migrants are missing on the high seas as at September this year, Assistant Commissioner of Immigration (ACI) Mr Charles Bediako, the Brong-Ahafo Regional Commander of the Ghana Immigration Service (GIS), said on…
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The number of people known to have died in Indonesia in Friday's earthquake and tsunami has risen to 1,347, disaster response officials say. The death toll jumped on Tuesday from a previous confirmed figure of 844. The 7.5-magnitude…
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