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[Leadership] The Nigerian government has been advised not to rely on foreign nations to win the ongoing war against terrorism and banditry in the country.

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[Capital FM] Nairobi -- The government expects Kenya's debt-to-GDP ratio to ease slightly to 60.6 percent by 2030, according to the draft 2026 Budget Policy Statement (BPS).

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[Vanguard] OSOGBO -- THE Association of Concerned Local Government Workers, ACLGW, in Osun State, yesterday, urged workers returning to work to eschew violence and adhere to the ethics of their professions.

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[Vanguard] The gross failure of emergency response in Nigeria's healthcabre system, stood exposed once more, this time to the global audience, last Monday, when heavyweight boxer Anthony Joshua and his friends suffered a horrific crash on the Lagos-Ibadan Expressway. Social media videos captured voluntary bystanders pulling Joshua from the wreckage and seating him in a police patrol vehicle. Not a single ambulance or paramedic appeared on scene.

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The Somali Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation on Monday condemned, “in the strongest terms,” the unauthorized incursion of the Israeli Minister of Foreign Affairs into Hargeisa, describing the visit as a “serious violation” of Somalia’s territorial sovereignty.

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[This Day] *Says no matter who they are, what their intent is, those who killed 42 in Niger must be hunted down with all those who aid, abet, enable them

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[This Day] Abuja -- Crude price fell over 18% in 2025

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Ghanaian artist Ibrahim Mahama has reached the pinnacle of the global art world, topping ArtReview’s influential Power 100 list and becoming

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Economic prospects are brightening for sub-Saharan Africa, with the International Monetary Fund projecting growth to accelerate to 4.4% in 2026.

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[FrontPageAfrica] Monrovia -- Former President George Manneh Weah has provided his account of why the Government of the People's Republic of China halted the construction of two overhead overpass bridges during his administration, attributing the delay to geopolitical tensions between China and the United States.

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[allAfrica] In an era when artificial intelligence and advanced manufacturing are reshaping the world as we know it, Taiwan has become one of the world's most consequential technology junctions. That status is not built on branding, but on the hard mechanics of the modern digital economy: advanced semiconductors, high performance computing, server manufacturing, and the engineering depth required to deliver reliable infrastructure at scale. For countries that want to industrialise and digitise in parallel, this

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The Israeli foreign minister said Tuesday that Israel would soon open an embassy in Somaliland as he made the first visit there since his government's contentious move to formally recognize the breakaway Somali territory as a sovereign state.

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[The Conversation Africa] Nigeria has endured decades of violent insurgencies and ranks 6th on the 2025 Global Terrorism Index. Numerous people have been killed and millions displaced. The number of casualties from terrorist attacks in 2025 can be seen in both the Armed Conflict Location & Event Data and the Council on Foreign Relations' Nigeria Security Tracker. Most of the casualties are in places with high poverty levels, as the Nigerian Poverty Map shows.

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[African Arguments] On 26 December 2025 Prime Minister Netanyahu of Israel announced the official recognition of Somaliland by his government.

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[Afrobarometer] More than four in 10 citizens say the government discriminates against their ethnic group.

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Egyptian Prime Minister Mostafa Madbouly issues an official decree declaring Wednesday, January 7, 2026, a paid public holiday in observance of Christmas.

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In the Czech Republic, more than 40 swimmers took part in Prague’s Three Kings Swim, diving into the icy Vltava River near the Charles Bridge.

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[Maka] Luanda -- A public broadcaster journalist is charged with terrorism for texts describing a taxi strike that urged citizens to stay home. The case raises urgent questions about press freedom and criminal law in Angola.

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Filmmakers in the north of Nigeria are pushing the boundaries of censorship in search of international recognition.

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The trial of 45 people charged in connection with a 2020 attack on a military checkpoint resumed in Cote d’Ivoire’s Anti-Terrorism Court on Monday.

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Greeks celebrate Epiphany with the traditional blessing of the waters. In Piraeus, men dove into the cold sea to retrieve a wooden cross for good fortune.