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Japan welcomed a new attraction in Tokyo on Thursday with the opening of PokéPark Kanto, Pokémon’s first permanent theme park.

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[RFI] Athletes from around the world are in the Italian Alps for the opening of the 2026 Winter Olympics on Friday - including 13 sportspeople from eight African countries. Though the continent isn't associated with winter sports, Africa has been a constant and growing presence at the Games since 1960.

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[Maka] On the first day of Angola's taxi drivers' strike, two teenage cousins left home in different parts of Luanda on ordinary errands. One would not return alive. The other has spent more than six months in prison without charge.

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[Parliament of South Africa] The Portfolio Committee on Transport has noted the suspension of the Administrative Adjudication of Road Traffic Offences (AARTO) implementation.

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[Parliament of South Africa] The Portfolio Committee on Home Affairs has concluded its provincial public participation process on the Marriage Bill. The committee is satisfied that the quality, depth and breadth of the engagements have adequately equipped Members of Parliament with the lived experiences and perspectives necessary to strengthen and refine the Bill.

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[Parliament of South Africa] The South African Forestry Company Limited (SAFCOL) is losing millions of rands from timber theft in its Mpumalanga plantations, and its nature reserves are damaged by illegal mining, threatening eco-tourism business.

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[Leadership] The proscribed Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) has accused Justice James Omotosho of the Federal High Court in Abuja of convicting and sentencing its leader, Nnamdi Kanu, without enough evidence.

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[Leadership] The Attah-Igala and chairman of the Kogi State Council of Traditional Rulers, Dr. Matthew Alaji Opaluwa Oguche Akpa, will on April 4, 2026, officially turban Captain Aliyu Ahmad Yakubu, Group Managing Director and CEO of Pyatic Group, with the prestigious honorary chieftaincy title of Abeneche-Attah Igala.

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[Leadership] The Kaduna Branch of Nigerian Bar Association (NBA) has commended Kaduna State Government, security agencies and all stakeholders whose efforts led to the rescue of Kurmin Wali kidnapped victims.

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[AIM] Maputo -- Mozambican President Daniel Chapo on Thursday strongly condemned the attempt the previous day to assassinate prominent journalist Carlitos Cadangue, the correspondent in Manica province of the independent television station, STV.

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[AIM] Maputo -- The Islamist terrorists responsible for extreme violence in the northern Mozambican province of Cabo Delgado claim to have murdered at least nine members of the Mozambican Armed Forces (FADM) in Macomia district.

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[AIM] Maputo -- The governments of Mozambique and the United Arab Emirates (UAE) have expressed their willingness to deepen bilateral cooperation in agriculture, food security and environmental protection.

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[State Department] Washington, DC -- The text of the following statement was released by the Governments of the United States of America and the Democratic Republic of the Congo.

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[Premium Times] The NSA said adequate security personnel will be deployed to polling stations and high-risk electoral wards in FCT, Rivers and Kano State during the forthcoming elections this year.

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Armed jihadists devastate a community that refused to convert to their hard-line interpretation of Islam.

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[Daily Trust] Operatives of the Kogi State Police Command, in collaboration with the Nigerian Army, local hunters and vigilante groups, have arrested eight suspected criminal elements, including alleged informants, during coordinated bush-combing operations across parts of the state.

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[Daily Trust] Troops of the Joint Task Force, Operation Whirl Stroke (OPWS), have neutralised an armed bandit and arrested eight criminal suspects in coordinated security operations across Benue and Nasarawa states.

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[Daily Trust] The House of Representatives Public Accounts Committee (PAC) has summoned chairmen and finance directors of the six Federal Capital Territory (FCT) Area Councils over alleged financial infractions amounting to over N100 billion.

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[Daily Trust] The Taminu Turaki-led National Working Committee (NWC) of Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has said that Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) cannot choose a leadership for the party.

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[Daily Trust] The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) faction loyal to Minister of Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Nyesom Wike, has said the party's national secretariat, Wadata Plaza, will be reopened on Monday.

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[Premium Times] The Executive Secretary of NCDMB, Felix Omatsola Ogbe, an engineer made the pledge on Thursday when the new Secretary General of APPO, Farid Ghezali paid him a courtesy visit at the Board's Abuja liaison office