Nigeria on Tuesday announced a 24-hour curfew over Lagos as protests over police brutality continued to expand. On Monday, the protestors moved to occupy Lagos’ international airport, nearly bringing the city of 14m to a standstill. Announcing the curfew, Lagos state governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu said the measures were necessary to restore order. I, therefore,…
Suspected Allied Democratic Forces (ADF) rebels freed more than 1,300 prisoners in an assault on a jail in Beni, eastern Democratic Republic Congo. Only about 100 prisoners after the attack on Kagbayi prison on Tuesday morning. The ADF are a Ugandan rebel group with bases in eastern Congo. “We had a count before the escape…
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Trump said Sudan agreed to a $335 million compensation package for victims and relatives of past attacks. President Donald Trump said Monday he was ready to remove Sudan from a US blacklist of state sponsors of terrorism, a landmark boost for the civilian-backed government as it turns the page on the nation’s decades as an international pariah. Trump said…
Election campaigns in Ivory Cost took a violent turn last weekend with deadly violence in the city of Bongouanou, 200km north of Abidjan. Two people were killed as two ethnic communities clashed. While the violence appeared spontaneous, regional bloc ECOWAS is worried. It has dispatched a delegation to the country to try and calm tensions.…
After Guinea’s opposition leader Cellou Dalein Diallo’s self-proclaimed victory in the first round of the presidential vote, his supporters flooded the streets of the capital Conakry Speaking at a press conference on Monday, a day after the vote, Diallo said he had emerged “victorious” despite “anomalies which marred the ballot”. “I invite all my fellow…