The Nigerian army has rejected claims it killed unarmed protesters at a rally in Lagos in October, saying its soldiers were firing blank bullets. Brigadier General Ahmed Taiwo presented video evidence to
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image copyrightAFP In our series of letters from African journalists, Mannir Dan Ali, former editor-in-chief of the Daily Trust newspaper, looks at what a row over Arabic script reveals about Nigeria’s divides.
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There is concern that the conflict in northern Ethiopia is spreading following rocket attacks on two cities in the country’s Amhara region and reports of fighting across the Eritrean border. The governing party in neighbouring Tigray region has acknowledged that
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https://www.brookings.edu/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/global_ethiopia_blood_donation_flag.jpg?w=274Post-election updates in Côte d’Ivoire, Guinea, and Tanzania On Wednesday, November 11, Côte d’Ivoire’s newly reelected President Alassane Ouattara met with one of the country’s main opposition leaders, Henri Konan Bedie, in an attempt to avoid a crisis in the
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https://cdn.theatlantic.com/assets/media/img/mt/2020/11/Atlantic_Sarah_06/lead_960.jpg Updated at 1:05 p.m. ET In 2015, Charlotte Carew Pole gave birth to her first child, a daughter she named Jemima. Having her was “a bit of a struggle,” she told me, with some understatement. Carew Pole had been
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Ghana’s longest-serving leader, former flight lieutenant Jerry John Rawlings, who died on Thursday, had an enduring legacy as ‘the man of the people’. He twice seized power in Ghana but returned the country to democratic control. Through decades of speeches and interviews,
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