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NIGERIA: EFCC REVISITS MALABU SCANDAL, UK RETURNS $85 MILLION TO NIGERIA

Nigeria’s anti-graft agency, EFCC, has voiced its hindrances in tracing two ex-Nigerian ministers on trial for their alleged roles in the Malabu scandal. Nigeria’s government, on the other hand, has.

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TANZANIA: DEBT PROFILE REACHES US$24 BILLION

Tanzania’s public debt profile increased by 15 percent during the 2016/17 fiscal year even as the government contends with lack of response from development partners. The latest figures show that.

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RWANDA: AMBASSADOR TO FRANCE RECALLED.

Rwanda has recalled Jacques Kabale, the country ambassador to France after the Defence Minister James Kabarebe was summoned to appear before a magistrate investigating the death of former President Juvenal.

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MOZAMBIQUE: PRESIDENT NYUSI FIRES ARMY AND INTELLIGENT CHIEFS

Mozambique President, Filipe Jacinto Nyusi, has fired the country’s head of intelligence and chief of army staff, two weeks after 16 people were killed in attacks in the northern part.

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NIGERIA: Registered Voters may Hit 80m By 2019- INEC

Nigeria’s Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has predicted a 14% increase from the 2015 70 million voters by 2019. The Chairman of INEC, Prof Mahmood Yakubu, made the prediction at.

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Shell Nigeria Gas Donates Labs, ICT Centre to Community School

Shell Nigeria Gas (SNG), has donated an ultramodern ICT Centre and well-equipped science laboratories to African Church Community Secondary School in Ewupe, a community hosting the company’s facilities in Ota.

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Sierra Leone: Ruling Party Names Kamara as Presidential Flagbearer

Sierra Leone’s ruling party, All People’s Congress, has chosen Foreign Affairs Minister Samura Kamara as its candidate for next year’s presidential polls to succeed President Ernest Bai Koroma. The choice.

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Nigeria Seeks Reelection into the UN Human Rights Council

Nigeria has launched a bid for re-election into the UN Human Rights Council (UNHRC) in Geneva for the 2018 to 2020 term at an election scheduled for Monday at the.

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Supreme Court Recalls Corruption Charges against Zuma

The Supreme Court of Appeal (SCA) of South Africa, has upheld a ruling by the High Court that had reinstated corruption charges against President Jacob Zuma, piling further pressure on the head of.

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Rwanda Opposition Leader Charged with Insurrection

  Rwandan prosecutors said Tuesday that a former presidential candidate and fierce critic of President Paul Kagame had been charged with stirring insurrection against the state as well as other.

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