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Even before a sudden controversial ban on motorcycle taxis and tricycles in Nigeria’s commercial capital, Lagos, crippling traffic jams were a daily ordeal for its...

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Twenty killed in Tanzanian church stampede: official

YoopyaFebruary 2, 2020June 14, 2023

by YoopyaFebruary 2, 2020June 14, 20230

Twenty people in Tanzania were trampled to death at an open-air evangelical Christian church service in the north of the country, officials said on Sunday....

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Outcry in Guinea over police human shield video

YoopyaJanuary 31, 2020May 29, 2023

by YoopyaJanuary 31, 2020May 29, 20230

Police in the West African state of Guinea are facing a storm of criticism over a viral video that apparently showed them using a woman...

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Supercars seized from politician auctioned in Switzerland

YoopyaSeptember 29, 2019May 29, 2023

by YoopyaSeptember 29, 2019May 29, 20230

A collection of luxury supercars seized from the extravagant vice president of Equatorial Guinea as part of a corruption probe were auctioned in Switzerland on...

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Long live the Lion Queen: Beyonce delights with new album

YoopyaJuly 20, 2019May 29, 2023

by YoopyaJuly 20, 2019May 29, 20230

The Bey Hive was feeling the love Friday over Beyonce’s release of the album The Lion King: The Gift, which the pop queen dropped as...

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West African Finance Ministers Inch Closer to Single Currency

YoopyaJune 20, 2019February 27, 2023

by YoopyaJune 20, 2019February 27, 20230

West African finance ministers and central bank governors agreed on technical issues surrounding the creation of a single currency for the Economic Community of West...

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Sudan general vows ‘gallows’ for perpetrators of deadly crackdown

YoopyaJune 16, 2019June 2, 2023

by YoopyaJune 16, 2019June 2, 20230

A top Sudanese general vowed Sunday to send to the gallows those who carried out a deadly crackdown on protesters earlier this month that killed...

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Black boxes show clear similarities with Indonesian crash, Ethiopia says

YoopyaMarch 17, 2019June 2, 2023

by YoopyaMarch 17, 2019June 2, 20230

Black box data recovered from an Ethiopian Airlines plane that crashed last week shows clear similarities with a recent crash in Indonesia of the same...