Sierra Leone’s president on Friday signed a bill abolishing the death penalty
Declaring the West African country had “exorcised horrors of a cruel past” after a long campaign to end capital punishment.
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Six migrants were killed after shooting broke out by Libyan guards at an overcrowded Tripoli detention facility on Friday
Images show migrants boarding a bus after being detained by the local security forces following an escape attempt from the
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The Katsina State Police Command has confirmed the shooting of a man by operatives of the Nigerian Customs Service
Police Public Relations Officer, SP Gambo Isah, said efforts are in top gear to identify the erring officers and bring
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Sierra Leone’s President Julius Maada Bio on Friday signed a bill abolishing the death penalty
The move comes after lawmakers in the West African country voted to end capital punishment in July, replacing the punishment
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Full list of Nobel Peace Prize laureates from 1901, when the prize was first awarded
2021: Maria Ressa (Philippines/US) and Dmitry Muratov (Russia) 2020: The United Nation’s World Food Programme (WFP) 2019: Abiy Ahmed (Ethiopia) 2018:
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The rally stars of bikes, cars and trucks categories were out in force on Thursday
A day before the Rally Morocco in Zagora gets underway – a race that is seen as a key precursor
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The Democratic Republic of Congo’s response to the Covid-19 pandemic has suffered from the kind of mismanagement
During outbreaks of other deadly diseases in the country, a study said Thursday. “Measles, cholera, Ebola… the DRC was already
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Burkina Faso’s former president Blaise Compaore, the main accused in a long-awaited trial
On the 1987 assassination of his predecessor Thomas Sankara, will boycott the upcoming proceedings, his lawyers said on Thursday. “President
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Standing on a boat bobbing gently in the Red Sea, Egyptian diving instructor Mohamed Abdelaziz
Looks on as tourists snorkel amid the brilliantly coloured corals, a natural wonder now under threat from climate change. “If
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Sixteen soldiers were killed and 10 wounded in an attack in central Mali on Wednesday
Mali on Wednesday, security and health officials in the war-torn Sahel state said. In a statement, Mali’s army said the
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