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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image copyrightAFP The Ethiopian government says local forces in the northern state of Tigray have fired rockets into a neighbouring region. Tension between the government and the Tigray People’s Liberation Front (TPLF), which
Detailsimage copyrightReuters Ethiopia’s human rights commission has said it will send a team to investigate reports of mass killings of civilians in the northern Tigray state. The commission, appointed by the government but
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image copyrightGetty Images The fighting in Ethiopia’s northern Tigray state may not only have drastic implications for the future of the country but could also seriously affect its neighbours. Seeking to calm tensions
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https://static01.nyt.com/images/2020/11/13/world/13nigeria-protest‑1/13nigeria-protest-1-moth.jpgLAGOS, Nigeria — Nigeria’s leaders have made a show of responding to the demands of a massive youth-led uprising over police brutality that recently brought the country to a standstill and captured global attention. The government has commissioned panels of inquiry
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Sierra Leone fought back from 4–0 down away to Nigeria to draw 4–4 on Friday in their 2021 Africa Cup of Nations qualifier after a spectacular comeback in Benin City. The Super Eagles were
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image copyrightBritish Museum The British Museum has announced its plans to help “investigate the history of the Kingdom of Benin”, with a grand archaeology mission and new museum. The organisation will work with
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https://img.huffingtonpost.com/asset/5f9fbb22240000fc2c61edde.jpeg?cache=1ceaqiabwu&ops=224_126 On September 16, when Subhash Chandran, a scuba diver, along with four others, went for their first underwater clean-up post the lockdown at Rushikonda beach in Visakhapatnam, they found floating in the seabed N‑95, surgical and cloth masks and
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https://img.huffingtonpost.com/asset/5f9d916a240000201b9adbc6.jpeg?cache=og8rugxs2c&ops=224_126 As vast tracts of the developed world grapple with a second wave of COVID-19, life in China is returning to normal, and the country is on track to do what virtually no other country will achieve this year: Grow
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https://img.huffingtonpost.com/asset/5f8709572000009d05561aeb.jpeg?cache=aziooxotjr&ops=224_126 A man walking his dog eyed the U.S. plates on our car. “You people shouldn’t be here,” he sneered. My husband, children and I were in the midst of a socially distanced reunion with my father outside
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