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Nearly 2,000 inmates freed during attacks on Nigeria prisons

Segun - October 20, 2020

NIGERIA Nigerian authorities say nearly 2,000 inmates have broken out of jail after crowds attacked two prisons in the...

sky news africa Military again nab an escaped prisoner in Nigeria’s Plateau

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Military again nab an escaped prisoner in Nigeria’s Plateau

Uzo Kingsley - August 18, 2020

NIGERIA Nigeria’s Special Military Task Force otherwise known as Operation Safe Haven (OPSH), deployed to restore peace in north...

Alleged Christchurch gunman sends letter from prison cell

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Alleged Christchurch gunman sends letter from prison cell

Kate Howard - August 15, 2019

NEW ZEALAND New Zealand officials admitted Wednesday that they made a mistake by allowing the man accused of killing...

Riot in Cameroon's central prison

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Riot in Cameroon’s central prison

Mumbere Peter - July 23, 2019

CAMEROON Four inmates are reported dead after chaos erupted at the Kondengui Central prison in Cameroon’s capital, Yaounde.

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DRC approves use of second experimental Ebola vaccine

DRC approves use of second experimental Ebola vaccine

September 23, 2019

sky news africa In the year up through July 2015, some 175,000 migrants were plucked to safety in the Mediterranean from smugglers’ boats and brought to Italy. From August 2016 through July 2017, the number was even higher — about 183,000. In the last few years, Italian authorities have made it difficult for humanitarian rescue ships operating in the central Mediterranean Sea. Some of the charity boats have ended up impounded in Italian ports for technical reasons. And when anti-migrant leader Matteo Salvini was Italy’s interior minister in the previous government, humanitarian rescue boats were sometimes kept at sea for days or weeks at a time with migrants aboard while waiting permission to disembark. Commenting on the latest figures, Interior Minister Luciana Lamorgese said many of those setting out from Tunisia in small boats and reaching Italy are Tunisians determined to escape economic hardship in their homeland, not refugees fleeing conflict. She and Italy’s foreign minister will visit Tunisia on Monday, along with two European Union commissioners, to try to boost solidarity with Tunisia and its “young democracy,” Lamorgese said. While thousands of migrants, many from sub-Saharan Africa, still set out for Europe from lawless Libya, where human traffickers have been based for years, according to Italy’s latest figures more migrants reached Italy by sea from Tunisia than from Libya. Italy has a repatriation agreement with Tunisia that allows Italian authorities to relatively quickly send back to Tunisia those found ineligible for asylum.

Migrants increasingly reaching Italy by sea from Tunisia

August 15, 2020

sky news africa Ending child abuse in Nigeria, NGO proffer solution

Ending child abuse in Nigeria, NGO proffer solution

December 13, 2020

Nigeria, Russia sign treaty on legal assistance

Nigeria, Russia sign treaty on legal assistance

December 5, 2018

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Buhari's suspension of Nigeria's chief justice breaches human rights: U.N.

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Buhari’s suspension of Nigeria’s chief justice breaches human rights: U.N.

UK's Johnson appeals for snap election to break Brexit deadlock

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Iran set to exceed nuclear deal uranium enrichment cap

No luxury vehicles: South African provincial head buys ambulances

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No luxury vehicles: South African provincial head buys ambulances