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[Leadership] President Bola Tinubu has stated that the implementation of Nigeria's new tax laws will commence on January 1, 2026, as planned.

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[Nile Post] Prolonged traffic disruption along the Kampala-Masaka Road on Tuesday left thousands of motorists stranded for hours, with some forced to spend the night on the highway, sparking widespread public anger and political debate over responsibility for the chaos.

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[New Times] Rwanda has enacted 43 defense cooperation agreements, nearly half of them in the past three years.

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[New Times] The government has pledged to address concerns over inadequate truck parking facilities, amid complaints from lawmakers and truck drivers who say the shortage is contributing to fatigue, accidents and financial losses.

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[New Times] Learners who dropped out of secondary school at Senior Four, Five or Six may soon get a second chance to complete their education under a new catch-up programme launched by the Ministry of Education (MINEDUC).

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[New Times] University gender ministers from higher institutions of learning from across the country have pledged to collaborate in taking a leading role in preventing gender-based violence (GBV) on their campuses, promoting informed consent, and safeguarding students' sexual and reproductive health and rights (SRHR).

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[This Day] Abuja -- Northern Elders Forum (NEF) called on Nigerians to speak out against what it described as reckless and unsustainable borrowings by the federal government, warning that the country's economic future is being dangerously mortgaged.

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[This Day] President Bola Tinubu, for the umpteenth time, disclosed yesterday that the new tax regulations would take effect as planned from January 1, 2026.

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[Leadership] The Tabitha Missions for Orphans and Widows International has launched the Tabitha Food Bank in Abuja as part of its welfare outreach programme aimed at supporting widows, orphans and vulnerable families during the yuletide season.

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[Leadership] The Nigerian Army has recorded major operational successes across several theatres of operation within the last 72 hours, neutralising 47 terrorists, arresting 19 criminal suspects, rescuing over 30 kidnap victims and recovering a cache of arms, ammunition and other logistics.

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[This Day] The Minister of Works, David Umahi, recently held talks with a high-level delegation from the Republic of Chad, led by the Chadian Minister of Infrastructure and Road Maintenance, Mr. Amir Idriss Kourda, on the implementation of the Abidjan-Lagos highway project.

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[Shabelle] Afgooye, Somalia -- Somali National Army (SNA) commandos and National Intelligence and Security Agency (NISA) forces successfully repelled an attempted infiltration by Al-Shabaab militants into the forested areas of Lower Shabelle region, military sources said.

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[Capital FM] Nairobi -- At least half of Kenyans are experiencing heightened stress due to sustained economic pressures, with one in four reporting mental health challenges directly linked to financial strain, according to the latest Infotrak End-of-Year Poll.

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[UN News] Sexual violence against children has become entrenched, systemic and increasingly widespread across the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), with new data showing a sharp rise in cases since 2022, according to the UN Children's Fund (UNICEF).

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[UN News] Sudan's deepening war is driving unprecedented levels of hunger, child malnutrition and displacement, UN agencies report, as new data from Darfur and a renewed refugee influx into Chad underscore the rapidly deteriorating situation.

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A task force is trying to save seabirds from getting caught and killed in fishing boat nets.

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[RFI] Côte d'Ivoire's ruling party has won 77 percent of the seats in parliament, further consolidating its power two months after the re-election of Alassane Ouattara as president, according to results announced on Monday.

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[The Conversation Africa] In South Africa, manufacturers of pineapple juice and other pineapple products discard thousands of tons of pineapple leaves every year, with most ending up in dumpsites.

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[Dabanga] Washington D.C. / Ankara -- The USA has expressed "deep concern" over the rhetoric issued by the leadership of the Sudanese Armed Forces, which has calls for military solutions to the crisis and imposes preconditions for any ceasefire. The US State Department's Deputy Spokesperson, Tommy Pigott, posted on X on Tuesday, in direct response from Washington to the speech delivered by the Chairman of the Sovereignty Council and Commander of the Army, Lt Gen El Burhan, in Türkiye.

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[Dabanga] Amsterdam -- For more than two and a half years, Sudan's children have endured a living nightmare. The conflict has left millions of children without protection, out of school, and without basic services, says Sheldon Yett, representative for the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) in Sudan. Speaking to Radio Dabanga on Tuesday, Yett laments that his organisation is aware that "children displaced from El Fasher, elsewhere in the Kordofans, living in towns such as Tawila, living throughout North Darfur, in Dhaba,

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[Dabanga] Amsterdam -- For years, the press in Sudan has been going through successive crises that have negatively affected the journalistic climate, freedom of expression, and the independence of media institutions. After the outbreak of the war on April 15, 2023, press institutions were destroyed, as headquarters and properties were bombed and looted, and journalists were displaced, and many institutions stopped working, while some remained operating at a meager operational capacity not exceeding 1 per cent, and journalists