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Nigeria’s President Buhari asks state oil company to review swap scheme: spokesman

YoopyaJuly 14, 2015July 8, 2023

by YoopyaJuly 14, 2015July 8, 2023011

ABUJA (Reuters) – Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari has instructed the state-run oil company to review agreements behind a programme to swap crude for refined products,...

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At least three killed in bomb attack on Kenyan police vehicle

YoopyaJuly 14, 2015July 2, 2023

by YoopyaJuly 14, 2015July 2, 202302

MOMBASA, Kenya (Reuters) – At least two police officers and a civilian died on Monday when a bomb blew up their vehicle in Kenya’s coastal...

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Gunmen kill seven in attack on Tanzanian police station

YoopyaJuly 13, 2015July 2, 2023

by YoopyaJuly 13, 2015July 2, 2023019

DAR ES SALAAM (Reuters) – Gunmen killed seven people and seized weapons and ammunition in a raid on a police station in Tanzania’s commercial capital...

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Professor Wole Soyinka is 81 years old

YoopyaJuly 13, 2015July 2, 2023

by YoopyaJuly 13, 2015July 2, 2023010

In 1986 he won the Nobel Prize for Literature. The same year he was awarded the Commander of the Federal Republic, CFR. The great literary...

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Uganda’s president to mediate in Burundi as regional alarm grows

YoopyaJuly 13, 2015July 1, 2023

by YoopyaJuly 13, 2015July 1, 202307

BUJUMBURA (Reuters) – Uganda’s President Yoweri Museveni will fly to Burundi on Tuesday to mediate between government and opposition leaders, an official said, a personal...

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Saud al-Faisal, former Saudi Arabia foreign minister, dies

YoopyaJuly 10, 2015July 1, 2023

by YoopyaJuly 10, 2015July 1, 202305

RIYADH, Saudi Arabia — Saudi Arabia’s Prince Saud al-Faisal, who was the world’s longest-serving foreign minister with 40 years in the post until his retirement...

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Parents of Tunisia Gunman Say Their Son Was Brainwashed and Framed

YoopyaJuly 10, 2015July 1, 2023

by YoopyaJuly 10, 2015July 1, 202303

The Sousse attack in June was the deadliest terrorist attack in the history of modern Tunisia. The parents of Seifeddine Rezgui who killed 38 people...

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Buhari rejects purchase of N400m bulletproof cars

YoopyaJuly 10, 2015July 1, 2023

by YoopyaJuly 10, 2015July 1, 202308

The fortified vehicles are valued at about N400 million. Buhari, after a proposal by the permanent secretary of the State House, Mr. Nebolisa Emodi, when...

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Why Afghan Taliban Are Ready to Talk

YoopyaJuly 10, 2015July 1, 2023

by YoopyaJuly 10, 2015July 1, 202307

ISLAMABAD—Afghanistan’s President Ashraf Ghani’s high risk, high rewards gamble in reaching out to Pakistan in return for Pakistan delivering the Afghan Taliban to the negotiating...

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Pope Francis drinks coca leaf tea on South American tour

YoopyaJuly 9, 2015July 1, 2023

by YoopyaJuly 9, 2015July 1, 202306

Main ingredient in cocaine given to pontiff in a brew of camomile and anise seeds on the plane to Bolivia as a remedy for altitude...