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Africa

March 12, 2023

U-20 AFCON: Ebonyi football fans urge NFF not to disband Flying Eagles

The nation’s men Under-20 team won bronze at the recently concluded U-20 AFCON tournament in Egypt.

Flying Eagles at U-20 AFCON used to illustrate the story
March 12, 2023

South African singer Costa Titch dies on stage during live performance

The musician reportedly had a seizure during a performance at the Ultra Music Festival on Saturday.

Costa Titch
March 8, 2023

110 people killed in Burkina Faso airstrikes targeting rebels

In the north of Burkina Faso, a night-time curfew and a ban on driving certain motorbikes have been in place since last week.

Burkina Faso soldiers
March 7, 2023

ECOWAS to confer ‘Democracy Icon Award’ on Buhari

This, he said, would enable future generations of West African citizens to know about the greatness he (Mr Buhari) achieved and to emulate his laudable examples.

President Muhammadu Buhari
March 7, 2023

105 migrants rescued off Libyan coast

Ms Nannini compared the situation to the shipwreck on the Italian southern coast more than a week ago.

Migrants' boat
March 7, 2023

Stakeholders seek universal access to sanitation in Africa

The next African Water and Sanitation Association congress will take place in February 2024 in Guinea Conakry.

Children fetching carrying water in can (Credit world vision)
March 6, 2023

Only few Nigerians agreed to return from Tunisia amid attacks on Africans: NiDCOM

The many others want to wait it out, praying it will soon pass, following the intervention of the AU and the African Group of Ambassadors.

Mrs. Abike Dabiri-Erewa
March 6, 2023

Two soldiers killed in gunfire as four terrorists break out of Mauritania jail

The country’s interior ministry described the four escapees as “terrorists” but failed to say why they were in prison.

Mauritania jailbreak (Credit DW)
March 6, 2023

Namibia makes third oil discovery in Orange Basin

The new discoveries could make Namibia, the southern neighbour of OPEC member Angola, another oil producer along the African Atlantic coast.

NAMCOR
March 6, 2023

Nigeria is ‘dwarf of Africa’, not giant: Obasanjo

“That is not what God has created Nigeria to be. That is what we Nigerians have inadvertently or advertently made Nigeria to be. But will Nigeria continue to be so?

Former president, Olusegun Obasanjo