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Freed Nigerian schoolchildren to be reunited with families
Month-long ordeal ends but no details released on how they regained their freedom or who was behind abduction
A final group of 130 kidnapped Nigerian schoolchildren freed by the government on Sunday are expected to be reunited with their families in the central Niger state on
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Another 130 kidnapped schoolchildren released in Nigeria
Presidential spokesperson says all those abducted from a Catholic school in Niger state last month are now free
Nigerian authorities say they have secured the release of a further 130 schoolchildren kidnapped from a Catholic school in November, after
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Manchester Museum seeks help to uncover hidden histories of African collection
New Africa Hub confronts colonial-era silences by asking visitors to share insights on 40,000 objects
It’s a rare thing for a museum to talk about what it doesn’t know. But unanswered questions and archival silences are at the heart of the new Africa Hub at Manchester Museum, north-west England, which is inviting people around the world to help fill the gaps.
The museum holds more
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Sweden and Germany slash aid budgets to focus on Ukraine and defence spending
Echoing the dismantling of USAID, other countries are changing funding priorities and health and hunger programmes in Africa will lose out
The notion of humanitarian aid being used to combat poverty and hunger is being replaced in Europe with geopolitical “games” as states redirect aid to Ukraine and to defence spending, analysts warn after recent announcements by Sweden and
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Gunmen kill nine in Johannesburg township in South Africa’s second mass shooting this month
Attackers wound 10 others in Bekkersdal after opening fire at people in a bar and ‘randomly’ shooting in the street, police say
Nine people have been killed after gunmen opened fire at a bar near Johannesburg in the second mass shooting in South Africa this month.
Ten more were wounded in the early morning attack at the tavern in the impoverished Bekkersdal township in a gold
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Ecuador court sentences 11 air force troops over disappearance of four boys
Long sentences in case of Afro-Ecuadorian ‘Guayaquil Four’ focuses attention on president’s crackdown on crime
A court in Ecuador has sentenced 11 air force personnel to decades in prison over the forced disappearance” of four Afro-Ecuadorian boys aged between 11 and 15 during security operations in the country’s largest city last year.
The case of the “
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Outrage after CBS pulls 60 Minutes segment on El Salvador’s Cecot prison
Controversially appointed editor-in-chief Bari Weiss says: ‘I held that story and I held it because it wasn’t ready’
CBS News was dealing with internal and external uproar on Monday after it pulled at the last minute an investigation for its flagship 60 Minutes show into the
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CBS News delays 60 Minutes segment on El Salvador’s Cecot mega-prison
Backlash after broadcaster announces investigation, due to air on Sunday night, ‘needs additional reporting’
CBS News is facing a backlash, including from one of its own correspondents, after it cancelled a 60 Minutes investigation into a brutal prison in El Salvador where
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Man jailed for 1,335 years as El Salvador sentences almost 250 MS-13 gang members
Attorney general’s office also says 10 people received prison terms from 463 to 958 years amid crackdown on gangs under state of emergency
El Salvador has announced prison sentences for hundreds of gang members, with some of the convicted receiving terms of hundreds of years.
The attorney general’s office posted on X
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US Coast Guard pursuing another oil tanker off coast of Venezuela
Official indicates vessel is subject to sanctions after Trump’s ‘blockade’ on sanctioned tankers in and out of Venezuela
US Coast Guard officials said on Sunday they were tracking an oil tanker in international waters close to Venezuela, multiple unnamed US officials have told US media, marking the second such action over the
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