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Armed attackers have killed two people and wounded 11 others in one of Cameroon’s restive anglophone regions, local authorities said. Cameroon’s primarily English-speaking Northwest and Southwest regions have been gripped by conflict since separatists declared independence in 2017. It followed decades of grievances over perceived discrimination by the francophone majority. President Paul Biya, 91, who…
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To mark 25 years of unbroken democracy in Nigeria, President Bola Tinubu will, on Wednesday, address a joint sitting of the Senate and the House of Representatives at the National Assembly Complex in Abuja. The president will also commission the National Assembly Library named after him. Clerk to the National Assembly, Sani Magaji Tambawal, disclosed…
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The Cross River State Government has released a new salary structure for workers in the state following the increment of the minimum wage by Governor Bassey Otu from N30,000 to N40,000 monthly. The governor, in a speech during this year’s celebration of Workers Day in Calabar, announced a N30,000 increment in salary for state government…
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Sacked Burundian prime minister Alain-Guillaume Bunyoni has appeared in court to appeal his conviction on charges including attempting to overthrow the government, a judicial source and witnesses said Tuesday. Once one of the most powerful regime figures, Bunyoni was prime minister from mid-2020 until September 2022 when he was fired, days after President Evariste Ndayishimiye…
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Children’s products sold by the Chinese-founded online shopping giant Shein contained toxic substances in amounts hundreds of times above acceptable levels, the government of South Korea’s capital Seoul said Tuesday. Shein, headquartered in Singapore, has skyrocketed in popularity around the world in recent years, offering a vast selection of trendy clothes and accessories at stunningly…