Bashar Abubakar embarked on a journey with his relatives and family friends from Basawa, a community in Zaria, northwestern Nigeria, on Friday, June 20. The 52-year-old and his companions were heading for a wedding ceremony in the North Central region, specifically to the Qua’an Pan area of Plateau State. He had worked as a driver […]
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Ayoola Ayedungbe was the first child of his family. His three other siblings saw him as their role model and he promised not to let them down as soon as things became rosy for him. The 29-year-old man graduated from a bible school months earlier and was on the verge of being an evangelist before […]
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The Gabonese government and the Islamic World Organisation for Education, Sciences and Culture (ICESCO) have launched a prize to fight violence against women in the country. The prize is expected to curtail the scourge in the country where women are confronted by several forms of violence with sexual and economic connotations. Minister of Social Affairs, […]
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Intercommunal conflict in Tiyo village located in Chad’s Ouaddai province in the Southeast region of the country has left 27 persons dead and four injured. “Yesterday it was Moito, today it is Abeché, the land conflict continues to kill. For plots of land, the Chadians are killing each other! 27 inhabitants of the villages Kidji-Mira […]
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The Norwegian Refugee Council (NRC), has said forced displacement from a new surge in violence, had caused an average of 13,000 people to flee their homes since April in Burkina Faso. Manenji Mangundu, Director of the NRC in Burkina Faso, stated on Monday, Sept. 13 that “attacks by armed groups in Solhan and Arbinda towns […]
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An employee of Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF), an international medical humanitarian organisation, has been killed in South Sudan owing to an outburst of inter-community violence in Pieri, an administrative division in the northeastern region where it runs a Primary Health Centre. MSF confirmed the incident in a statement released on Tuesday. The organisation, also known […]
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