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Guinea-Bissau’s exiled former president Umaro Sissoco Embalo, who was ousted in a November coup, told AFP on Monday he will return and run for president in an election due on December 6. The army seized power in the perennially unstable…
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A 26-year-old security man, Godwin Dauda, has been arrested by the Police authorities following an allegation that he raped an 11-year-old girl Christabel Albert to death, and dumped her corpse inside a church well. The incident, Arewa…
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The White House said on Thursday it has reinstated journalists from CNN, MS NOW and Politico after a federal judge deemed US President Donald Trump’s ban of the three news outlets likely unconstitutional and ordered their access immediately…
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Twenty-seven people have been killed in two mass shootings hours apart in South Africa, the latest gun violence to hit the country. Seventeen people were killed when eight gunmen stormed a bar close to Johannesburg on Saturday evening,…
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US President Donald Trump has said the term “Artificial Intelligence” will be replaced with “Super Intelligence” in US government documents, arguing that the word “artificial” makes the technology sound fake. Speaking at the High-Level…
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The South African Police Service (SAPS), with support from the Border Management Authority (BMA), has arrested a 52-year-old South African national at OR Tambo International Airport after allegedly finding suspected heroin worth more than…
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Hundreds of flights have been delayed at major airports in the US after construction workers accidentally cut a cable needed for air traffic control. Ground stops and delays were issued on Monday afternoon for airports in New York,…
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Niger’s military government has named a new chief of the armed forces as it reshuffled its top military command following a failed mutiny late last month. A decree read on state television on Friday announced that General Mamane Sani…
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The US has confirmed it deployed a space weapon in Earth’s orbit, the first time it has acknowledged such offensive capabilities. US Secretary of the Air Force Troy Meink said the “on orbit” weapon was necessary to safeguard US forces…
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A road accident involving multiple vehicles on one of South Africa’s main routes has killed 21 people. The collision on the N1 highway in the early hours of Monday involved two Toyota minibus taxis and a Suzuki sport utility vehicle,…
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