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How the End Sars protests have changed Nigeria forever

BBC News, HeadlineBy External SourceOctober 23, 2020Leave a comment

image copy­right­Get­ty Images The anti-police bru­tal­i­ty protests in Nige­ria cre­at­ed a pow­er­ful move­ment that appeared to shake those in pow­er, but after a tur­bu­lent fort­night, BBC Hausa edi­tor Aliyu Tanko con­sid­ers where it goes from

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Libya rivals sign ceasefire deal in Geneva

BBC NewsBy External SourceOctober 23, 2020

image copy­righ­tAnadolu Agen­cyLibya’s war­ring fac­tions have signed an agree­ment on a cease­fire, after five days of talks in Geneva.The deal between mil­i­tary lead­ers from Libya’s gov­ern­ment, and those from oppo­si­tion forces

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Nigeria’s End Sars protests: Families living with the pain of losing loved ones

BBC NewsBy External SourceOctober 23, 2020

Nige­ria has seen weeks of protests against police bru­tal­i­ty, as pro­test­ers called for the end of a spe­cial police unit known as SARS, accused of unlaw­ful arrests, tor­ture and extra-judi­cial killings.The unit has been dis­band­ed by the pres­i­dent, but Nigerians

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Nigeria End Sars protest: Key protest group says stay at home

BBC NewsBy External SourceOctober 23, 2020

image copy­rightAF­PA group that has been key in organ­is­ing protests against police bru­tal­i­ty that have gripped Nige­ria in the last three weeks has urged peo­ple to stay at home. The Feminist

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Africa calls on Caf president Ahmad to seek second term

BBC NewsBy External SourceOctober 23, 2020

A poten­tial sec­ond term in office for Con­fed­er­a­tion of African Foot­ball (Caf) pres­i­dent Ahmad is look­ing con­sid­er­ably more like­ly after 46 of the con­ti­nen­t’s 54 asso­ci­a­tion pres­i­dents have called on him to run again.

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End Sars protests: Midfielder John Ogu calls for Nigeria team boycott

BBC NewsBy External SourceOctober 22, 2020

Nige­ria mid­field­er John Ogu has called on his team to boy­cott upcom­ing match­es in protest at the coun­try’s government.Ogu, who has 26 caps, said a boy­cott would “make a statement”.On Tuesday

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Nigeria protests: The misinformation circulating online

BBC News, HeadlineBy External SourceOctober 22, 2020

image copy­rightReuter­sProtests began ear­li­er this month in Nige­ria call­ing on the author­i­ties to abol­ish a con­tro­ver­sial police unit called the Spe­cial Anti-Rob­bery Squad (Sars).The sto­ry has start­ed trend­ing glob­al­ly, with thousands

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Tanzania’s Tundu Lissu: Surviving an assassination attempt to run for president

BBC NewsBy External SourceOctober 22, 2020

image copy­right­Get­ty ImagesTo his sup­port­ers, Tun­du Lis­su is brave and fear­less. The fact that he is run­ning for pres­i­dent of Tan­za­nia three years after sur­viv­ing an attempt on his life is tes­ti­mo­ny to his

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Africa’s week in pictures: 16 — 22 October 2020

BBC NewsBy External SourceOctober 22, 2020

A selec­tion of the week’s best pho­tos from across the con­ti­nent and beyond:image copy­rightReuter­sim­age copy­rightReuter­sim­age copy­rightReuter­sim­age copy­rightReuter­sim­age copy­rightEPAim­age copyrightReuters

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Why Nigerian protesters want Beyoncé to be more like Rihanna

BBC NewsBy External SourceOctober 22, 2020

image copy­rightReuter­sRi­han­na, Kanye West and Nic­ki Minaj are among the many celebri­ties who have come out to sup­port protests against police bru­tal­i­ty in Nige­ria. But pro­test­ers hit out when Bey­on­cé spoke up. Why?Protesters against police bru­tal­i­ty say that on Tues­day night in Lagos men in army fatigues closed in on them and shot at them while they sang the nation­al anthem, some­thing the army denies as “fake news”.The irony a chord across the world. South African come­di­an Trevor Noah said: “Just like we’ve seen in the US, the

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