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[Premium Times] Mr Chude alleged widespread human rights abuses at the police Octopus Unit in Port Harcourt, including unlawful detention, torture, and extortion, while calling for urgent scrutiny and stronger oversight of detention facilities.

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[Premium Times] "Some of the brothers and sisters in-laws only aim at inheriting their late brothers' wives and property but don't talk about how to maintain the children of the deceased."

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[Shabelle] Mogadishu -- Somalia's Minister of Defence, Ahmed Moallim Fiqi, met with China's ambassador to Somalia, Wang Yu, in Mogadishu on Monday to discuss strengthening bilateral cooperation, particularly in the areas of defence, military training and support for Somalia's national security institutions.

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[Shabelle] Mogadishu -- The head of the African Union Support and Stabilisation Mission in Somalia (AUSSOM), El Hadji Ibrahima Diene, met the European Union's ambassador to Somalia, Francesca Di Mauro, in Mogadishu on Monday to discuss ongoing efforts to strengthen peace, security and stability in the Horn of Africa nation.

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[Shabelle] Mogadishu, Somalia -- Somalia's elite Danab Special Forces carried out a planned operation in the El Bashiir area near Buur Hakaba district in the Bay region, targeting suspected Al-Shabaab fighters, officials said on Monday.

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[State Department] The text of the following statement was released by the Governments of the United States of America and the countries and organizations of Belgium, France, Germany, Greece, Italy, Norway, the United Kingdom, African Union (AU), the European Union (EU), the Intergovernmental Authority on Development (IGAD), the League of Arab States (LAS), and the United Nations (UN) on the occasion of the conclusion of the Quintet (AU, IGAD, LAS, EU, and UN) consultations with Sudanese political stakeholders in Addis

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A cosmic reckoning is leaking from the shadows. As credible insiders warn of an undeniable collision with Non-Human Intelligence, the modern nation-state faces total delegitimization. Stripped of human supremacy and engineered scarcity, our centralized systems will collapse. The elite are panicking—but localized, mutual aid networks can harvest the shock.

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[Capital FM] Nairobi -- Kenya has called for stricter global standards on agricultural chemicals and stronger action against counterfeit farm inputs, warning that the continued circulation of substandard pesticides threatens public health, farmer livelihoods, and export markets.

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[Ayin Network] A recent investigation by the Centre for Information Resilience (CIR) and Sudan Witness exposes a devastating arson campaign taking place last month in the Nuba Mountains, South Kordofan State. For decades, the town of Kauda has stood as the defiant, symbolic heartland of the Nuba people and their resistance movement, the Sudan People's Liberation Movement-North (SPLM-N). But over two harrowing weeks from 2 to 16 May, a joint investigation reveals an arson campaign that burnt Kauda's central market and

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[Capital FM] Tributes continue to flow in for former Impala RFC player Robert 'Majei' Aringo who passed away over the weekend.

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Pointe-Noire, the economic capital of the Republic of Congo, welcomed designers, models and fashion enthusiasts from across the continent for the 13th edition of the Carrousel International de la Mode, held from June 4 to 7, 2026.

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[Scrolla] Parliament's police committee says 1,853 statutory rape cases were withdrawn between 2020 and 2025, warning that SAPS members who allow this are breaking their own rules. South Africa's forensic labs are too slow, rape kits are running out nationwide, and there is no dedicated policy guiding police on how to investigate the rape of children.

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According health officials, climate change is supercharging existing hotspots and lengthening transmission windows, fuelling far more intense outbreaks

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[New Era] Rundu -- The Rundu Town Council has launched a 24-month interest waiver programme to recover millions in unpaid municipal debt and ease financial pressure on struggling ratepayers.

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[New Era] Gobabis -- Members of the Parliamentary Standing Committee on Constitutional and Legal Affairs and Petitions met with officials from the Electoral Commission of Namibia in Gobabis on Friday to review the Draft Electoral Bill.

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[New Era] Mineworkers Union of Namibia (MUN) president Poco-Key Mberiuana says the role the media play in advancing workers' rights cannot be overemphasised.

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[New Era] Swakopmund -- The Omaruru Municipality has suspended its CEO, Valentinus Sindongo, via email on Tuesday.

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[New Era] Following months of complaints from customers over poor network service, dropped calls and internet outages, the Communications Regulatory Authority of Namibia (CRAN) has ordered Telecom Namibia to take urgent steps to stabilise its network and improve service delivery.

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[New Era] Ongwediva -- Various traditional authority leaders in northern Namibia have called on mothers who do not want their babies for a myriad of reasons to take the children to their palaces for adoption rather than dumping.

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[New Era] The City of Windhoek has raised urgent child protection and law enforcement concerns over groups of migrant Angolan children who have been living, trading and begging on the capital city streets for the past three years.

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[Scrolla] President Cyril Ramaphosa told the nation on Sunday, 7 June, that enforcing immigration laws is the job of the state, not private citizens or community groups. March and March leader Jacinta Ngobese-Zuma says the Criminal Procedure Act entitles citizens to make arrests, but the law does not list undocumented status as grounds for a citizen's arrest.