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A peace deal in Katsina, Nigeria, lets one armed group buy biscuits and plan for Hajj, but not lay down its weapons. Photographer Terna Iwar tells the Nigerian Scam what he saw.
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Paul Mackenzie convicted over deaths of children and one adult after followers were ordered to starve themselves and their families
The leader of a Kenyan doomsday sect has been sentenced to 200 years in prison for the murders of 190 children and one adult in one of the world’s worst cult...
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Cult leader Paul Mackenzie was convicted of murdering 190 children and one adult after he ordered his followers to starve themselves to death in order to meet Jesus.
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News, politics, culture and human-centered reporting across the African continent from NPR foreign correspondents and local reporters.
A self-proclaimed preacher from Kenya was sentenced to 200 years in prison on Friday for murdering 191 people, mostly children, by forcing them to starve to death. Hundreds of bodies have been discovered since 2023 at the cult's base near the beach resort of Malindi, in what became known as the...
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MTN’s sales rose 8.5 percent to Sh91.8 billion, with mobile money and data leading the revenue growth.
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Among those named in the executive structure were Ijarotimi Ayodeji Akintade as Chief Security Officer and Adenijo Olusola as State Treasurer.
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Former liberation movement’s share of national vote almost 14 percentage points below 2021 result
The African National Congress is on course to suffer a bruising defeat in South Africa’s local elections, with the once dominant party of Nelson Mandela falling to under a third of the vote...
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Two thousand tonnes of waste are dumped every day at the Dandora landfill site in the Kenyan capital Nairobi. An army of workers then rush in to recover recyclable materials, putting their own health at risk in the process. But however hard these unsung environmental heroes work, only 7 percent of...
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[Afrobarometer] Evidence from Cameroon's 'anglophone crisis' shows it depends on the institution's role and the citizen's location.
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[RFI] A Tanzanian court on Friday sentenced opposition leader Tundu Lissu to four years in jail for inciting unrest, after earlier in the day clearing him of treason - meaning he avoided a possible death sentence. The verdict follows a disputed presidential election and a deadly crackdown on...
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[Afrobarometer] Fewer than one in 10 have heard of the African Continental Free Trade Area.
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[Afrobarometer] On issues they prioritise, young citizens offer overwhelmingly negative ratings of their government's performance.
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A Tanzanian court on Friday sentenced opposition leader Tundu Lissu to four years in jail for inciting unrest, after earlier in the day clearing him of treason – meaning he avoided a possible death sentence. The verdict follows a disputed presidential election and a deadly crackdown on protesters,...
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Aid teams working to help millions of people uprooted by the ongoing war in Sudan appealed on Friday for more international assistance amid desperate funding shortages, empty warehouses and overwhelming needs.
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The victims, identified as Abike, Semiu, Sofiat and Ramadan, were reportedly kidnapped by suspected bandits on October 25, 2026, in Abangbe Village, near Oke-Oyi, in Ilorin East Local Government Area.
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After losing her sight in 2009, Nigeria’s Rukayat Suleimon has overcome isolation and limited support to make history as the first blind woman to win gold at the World Sambo Cup.
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[AIM] Maputo -- The number of suspects detained in connection with the murder of Osório Citora Afonso, Bishop of the Diocese of Quelimane, in the central Mozambican province of Zambézia, has risen from four to five.
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[AIM] Maputo -- Mozambique's publicly owned electricity company, EDM, carried out almost 400,000 new electricity connections over the past two years, as part of the "National Energy for All Programme", which was launched by the government in 2018 aiming to ensure universal electricity access...
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[AIM] Maputo -- The United Kingdom (UK) has expressed its willingness to strengthen support for the Mozambican government in 2027 General Population and Housing Census, through technical knowledge-sharing and improvement data collection tools.
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