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At least 115 killed in floods in central Nigeria
Several people remain missing in state of Niger after torrential rains submerged town of Mokwa
More than 100 people have died and several others remain missing after a torrential downpour in the central Nigerian state of Niger, local authorities said on Friday.
Floods submerged the town of Mokwa after the rains began on Wednesday night and continued into Thursday morning. Ibrahim
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Mother of jailed British-Egyptian activist hospitalised after 242 days on hunger strike
Laila Soueif continues protest against detention of Alaa Abd el-Fattah in Cairo
The mother of the imprisoned British-Egyptian human rights activist Alaa Abd el-Fattah has been admitted to hospital after spending more than 240 days on hunger strike.
Laila Soueif’s family said she had been admitted to St Thomas’ hospital in London on Thursday night with dangerously low blood sugar
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Sidi Ould Tah named African Development Bank president
Mauritanian economist who led Arab Bank for Economic Development in Africa will succeed Akinwunmi Adesina
The African Development Bank has chosen the Mauritanian economist Sidi Ould Tah as its president-elect after three rounds of voting on Thursday afternoon.
The election took place in Abidjan, Ivory Coast, at the end of the annual meeting of the continent’s biggest multilateral
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South African woman sentenced to life for selling six-year-old daughter
Racquel Smith and two others convicted over disappearance of Joshlin Smith, who court heard was sold to traditional healer
A South African woman has been sentenced to life imprisonment alongside two accomplices for trafficking her then six-year-old daughter, in a case that gripped South Africa and gained international attention after the girl went missing last year.
Racquel
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Former ambassador calls on UK to advise citizens against travel to Egypt
John Casson says Cairo ‘fobbing us off’ by refusing to release British-Egyptian national Alaa Abd el-Fattah
The former British ambassador to Egypt, John Casson, has urged the UK to advise its citizens against travelling to Egypt, in response to Cairo’s refusal to release dual British Egyptian national Alaa Abd el-Fattah.
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Supreme court allows White House to revoke temporary protected status of many migrants
Ruling reverses hold on Trump administration’s ending humanitarian parole of Venezuelan migrants and others
The US supreme court on
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Google and Home Depot drop Pride Toronto sponsorship amid Trump’s DEI war
Organizer points to president’s anti-diversity push as companies join Adidas and Clorox in withdrawing support
In another blow to one of the largest celebrations of LGTBQ+ people in North America, Pride
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Recent Canadian wildfires are record-breaking – and will threaten US air quality for days
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Mexico steps into unknown with world’s first popular election of all judges: ‘A blind date with democracy’
Critics warn the experiment will lead to low turnout, a political power grab and infiltration by organised crime
On a heat-dazed afternoon in Culiacán, the capital of Mexico’s Sinaloa state, a speaker by the cathedral was droning through an advert for the judicial elections on loop when a plume of smoke appeared in the sky. A flicker of agitation ran through the plaza.
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Over a barrel: lack of sugar throws Cuba’s rum industry into crisis
This year’s tiny harvest casts doubt on the spirit’s recent resurgence, once a bright spot in the island’s economy
It’s a crisis that would have sent a shiver down Ernest Hemingway’s drinking arm. Cuba’s communist government is struggling to process enough sugar to make the rum for his beloved mojitos and daiquiris.
As summer
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