Nigerian authorities on Sunday said the death toll from attacks by armed groups in northwest Zamfara State this past week has risen to more than 200. The attacks which began Tuesday lasted until Thursday across nine villages. Authorities say many more …
Health and Social Services Minister, Dr Kalumbi Shangula has announced that Namibia on Saturday recorded 449 new COVID-19 cases and 19 deaths, bringing total deaths in the country to 3 724.In the daily update issued Sunday, Shangula said the new cases …
West African regional leaders imposed new sanctions Sunday on Mali, suspending most commerce and financial aid to the country after its military rulers said they would stay in power for four more years instead of holding an election next month as promi…
Sudanese security forces fired tear gas and stun grenades Sunday at thousands of protesters marching against the country’s military rulers, with medics reporting that one demonstrator was killed.The protesters marched from Omdurman to Bahri, two cities…
Mali’s military government proposed in December a 5-year extension of the transition to civilian rule, after originally agreeing to a period of 18 months. Protesters gathered Saturday in Bamako to call for a return to democracy, ahead of an ECOWAS meet…
Gunmen in northwest Nigeria’s Kebbi state have freed 30 students and a teacher after seven months of captivity, according to a local official.More than 1,400 children were abducted in Nigeria last year according to the United Nations, mostly during att…
Many newly independent African countries in the 1960s inherited regional and ethnic inequalities in formal educational attainment. These new states bound together sub-national regions of diverse ethnic and religious communities. The regions differed in…
In mid-2015 the German Foreign Ministry admitted that the war the country had waged against the local communities of the Ovaherero and Nama (and the Damara and San) between 1904 and 1908 in German South West Africa (now Namibia) was a genocide.Since th…
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