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World
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Region
7/30/2024 4:48:37 PM
Libya repatriated Tuesday 369 irregular migrants to their home countries Nigeria and Mali, including more than one hundred women and children, an official told AFP.
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Africa
7/25/2024 12:46:47 PM
When a group of military officers appeared on state television in Niger one year ago to announce a dramatic coup, they said they deposed the West African nation's elected government for two key reasons: its security and economic crises.
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Business
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Tech
7/20/2024 9:02:38 PM
Nigeria is fining Facebook and WhatsApp parent company Meta $220 million for "multiple and repeated" data violations.
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Africa
7/17/2024 4:26:10 PM
Writers Union of Asia, Africa, and Latin America (WUAALA) has celebrated the 90th birthday of the renowned Nigerian writer and Nobel laureate Wole Soyinka, through an initiative titled "100 Soyinka Days."
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World
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Africa
7/12/2024 7:11:12 PM
At least 16 students were killed on Friday when a school in central Nigeria collapsed on pupils taking exams, according to an AFP correspondent.
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Sports
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Africa
7/11/2024 8:11:51 PM
Nigerian clubs Enugu Rangers and Remo Stars had mixed luck when the draws for the 2025 CAF Champions League qualifying rounds were made in Cairo on Thursday.
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Africa
7/9/2024 11:05:00 PM
Scores of Boko Haram jihadists and their relatives have surrendered since July to an African multinational force in Niger and Cameroon, the force said Tuesday.
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Africa
7/7/2024 12:49:24 PM
A West African leaders' summit opens on Sunday amid political turmoil after the military rulers of Niger, Mali and Burkina Faso cemented a breakaway union at a rival meeting.
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Africa
7/6/2024 6:31:01 PM
Niger's military leader on Saturday said that the people of his country, along with neighbours Mali and Burkina Faso, have "irrevocably turned their backs" on the West African regional bloc.
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World
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Africa
7/6/2024 12:12:43 PM
A divided West Africa hosts two presidential summits this weekend -- one in Niger between Sahel region military regime leaders, followed by another in Nigeria on Sunday with leaders of a wider economic bloc.
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World
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Africa
7/5/2024 6:53:31 PM
The US will remove all its forces and equipment from a small base in Niger this weekend and fewer than 500 remaining troops will leave a critical drone base in the West African country in August, ahead of a Sept. 15 deadline set in an agreement with the new ruling junta, the American commander there said Friday.
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World
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Africa
7/1/2024 8:57:30 PM
The death toll from multiple suicide bombings in the northeastern Nigerian town of Gwoza over the weekend has risen to 32, the country's vice president Kashim Shettima said Monday.
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World
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Africa
6/30/2024 10:09:26 AM
At least 18 people were killed and 19 seriously wounded in suicide attacks targeting a wedding, a hospital, and a funeral in northeastern Nigeria on Saturday, authorities said.
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World
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Africa
6/24/2024 1:08:27 PM
The forced U.S. troop withdrawals from bases in Niger and Chad and the potential to shift some troops to other nations in West Africa will be key issues as the top U.S. military officer meets with his counterparts this week at the Chiefs of Defence conference.
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World
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Africa
6/23/2024 8:52:53 PM
A China-backed pipeline that would make Niger an oil-exporting country is being threatened by an internal security crisis and a diplomatic dispute with neighbouring Benin, both as a result of last year’s coup that toppled the West African nation’s democratic government.
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Business
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Energy
6/21/2024 5:18:43 PM
Niger has revoked the operating licence of French nuclear fuel producer Orano at one of the world's biggest uranium mines, the company said Thursday, in a move that highlighted tensions between France and the African country's ruling junta.
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World
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Africa
6/19/2024 5:15:14 PM
Jihadi fighters who had long operated in Africa’s volatile Sahel region have settled in northwestern Nigeria after crossing from neighboring Benin, a new report said Wednesday, the latest trend in the militants' movements to wealthier West African coastal nations.
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World
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Africa
6/18/2024 4:59:22 PM
Niger rebels fighting for the release of the country's democratically elected leader say they have disabled part of a crucial pipeline carrying crude oil to Benin.
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Arts & Culture
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Music
6/15/2024 6:44:47 PM
In a bar in Gabon's capital Libreville, revellers get up and dance as soon as the DJ plays N'Tcham -- a local rhythmic genre born out of the city's prisons.
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World
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Africa
6/14/2024 5:50:55 PM
Niger’s highest court lifted the immunity of the country’s democratically elected president, Mohamed Bazoum, nearly a year after he was overthrown by mutinous soldiers, his lawyer said Friday, opening the door for the military junta to prosecute him for alleged high treason.
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