August 11, 20248:38 AM ET
Nigeria had a terrible showing at the Olympics. Its athletes say they were failed by corruption and mismanagement by the nation’s sports officials.
August 7, 20245:41 PM ET
A popular book and TV series in Europe imagines the straight-laced former German chancellor Angela Merkel solving crimes in her retirement. We unpack the premise’s popularity. And an American has been jailed in Nigeria over a dispute the country has with the crypto-currency exchange Binance. Some say the man is effectively being held hostage.
August 7, 20244:03 AM ET
Kenya’s antigovernment protestors have a new soundtrack and words of poets to help galvanize their burgeoning movement.
August 3, 20242:14 PM ET
An ambulance is seen on the beach following an attack in Mogadishu, Somalia, on Saturday.
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At least 32 people were killed and 63 others were wounded in an attack that included a suicide bombing and gunfire in Somalia’s capital, Mogadishu, according to police.
The assault, which began late Friday, took placenear a hotel on Lido Beach, a popular hangout spot for Mogadishu residents. A police spokesperson said one soldier died and the rest of the deceased and injured were civilians.
Islamic extremist group al-Shabab claimed responsibility for the Friday attack. Three insurgents died in a gunfight with law enforcement while one was captured alive, according to police.
A woman reacts while walking in a street as smoke billows in the background from an explosive-laden car diffused by the Somali police in Mogadishu on Saturday.
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August 3, 20248:29 AM ET
Nigerians in several major cities are protesting government economic policies that are causing inflation and hunger.
August 2, 20245:43 PM ET
In Nigeria, even two meals a day is becoming unaffordable to many. Demonstrators are protesting food inflation of more than 40 percent, and fuel costs that have tripled. And in China, live-streamers digitally clone themselves, raising questions about the future of labor in the age of A.I.
Enlarge this imageLabour unionists march in the streets of Lagos, Nigeria on Friday to protest the soaring cost of living under the West African nation’s new president.
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Labour unionists march in the streets of Lagos, Nigeria on Friday to protest the soaring cost of living under the West African nation’s new president.
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August 2, 20244:41 AM ET
Nigeria has one of Africa’s largest economies but is seeing record rates of child malnutrition. Aid groups call it a nearly unprecedented crisis.
August 1, 20241:44 PM ET
A woman protest against hardship on the street of Lagos, Nigeria, Thursday, Aug. 1, 2024. Thousands of mostly young people poured onto the streets across Nigeria on Thursday as they protested against the country’s worst cost-of-living crisis in a generation. Security forces fired tear gas to disperse some of the protesters in the capital, Abuja.
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LAGOS, Nigeria -At least seven people have been killed in Nigeria during nationwide protests against the rising cost of living and bad governance. Thousands of protestors have held demonstrations in several Nigerian cities. In some cities, the demonstrations were met with a heavy police presence.
Six people were killed in the city of Minna, northern Nigeria, when police moved to dismantle a roadblock protesters had erected, blocking a major expressway. Another person was killed in the populous northern state of Kano, as police clashed with demonstr..
July 30, 20246:45 PM ET
People find new ways to grow food after severe drought in some regions of Ethiopia.
July 24, 20243:25 AM ET
A new report on Sudan from Doctors Without Borders reveals that civilians have little protection from indiscriminate attacks and sexual violence with very little aid able to enter the country.