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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...

News World

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...

Africa World

Girl, 13, blows herself up near mosque in suspected Boko Haram attack

YoopyaJuly 9, 2015July 1, 2023

by YoopyaJuly 9, 2015July 1, 202306

Teenager was only victim of blast in large city Kano, as Islamist militants increasingly use young girls and women as human bombs. A girl aged...

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Negotiator: Boko Haram asks Nigerian government to swap detainees for kidnapped Chibok girls

YoopyaJuly 9, 2015July 1, 2023

by YoopyaJuly 9, 2015July 1, 202306

LAGOS, Nigeria — Nigeria’s Boko Haram extremists are offering to free more than 200 young women and girls kidnapped from a boarding school in the...

Business

Entrepreneur eyes cafes in West to profit from African coffee

YoopyaJuly 8, 2015July 1, 2023

by YoopyaJuly 8, 2015July 1, 202303

By Edith Honan NAIROBI (Reuters) – Andrew Rugasira has worked for more than a decade to sell coffee in a way that will be more...

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Ghana’s ruling party reclaims parliamentary seat in by-election

YoopyaJuly 8, 2015May 31, 2023

by YoopyaJuly 8, 2015May 31, 202306

By Kwasi Kpodo ACCRA (Reuters) – Ghana’s ruling party reclaimed a parliamentary seat from the main opposition on Tuesday in a closely contested by-election seen...

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Two suicide bombers kill around 30 in northern Nigeria

YoopyaJuly 8, 2015July 2, 2023

by YoopyaJuly 8, 2015July 2, 202305

By Garba Muhammed KADUNA, Nigeria (Reuters) – Suicide bombers killed around 30 people in two blasts in northern Nigeria on Tuesday, witnesses and a state...

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Rwanda court hears case to block third presidential term

YoopyaJuly 8, 2015July 2, 2023

by YoopyaJuly 8, 2015July 2, 202304

By Clement Uwiringiyimana KIGALI (Reuters) – Rwanda’s main opposition party opened a case in the Supreme Court on Wednesday seeking to prevent constitutional change that...

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Burundi considers response after African nations seek vote delay

YoopyaJuly 8, 2015July 2, 2023

by YoopyaJuly 8, 2015July 2, 202301

By Clement Manirabarusha BUJUMBURA (Reuters) – Burundi officials will discuss their response on Tuesday to a call by African nations to delay a presidential election...