LAGOS, 9 March 2021 – Nigeria’s Central Bank has introduced a “naira for dollar” scheme in an effort to expand remittances from its Diaspora. Diaspora remittances to Nigeria fell drastically last year to just over $5.3 billion from a vry high $25 billion in 2019....
PARIS, 15 January 2021 – A Guinean, Laye Fode Traore, will no longer be deported from France after his employer used a hunger strike to win hearts and the right for him to stay. Traore was going to turn 18, the age at which minors who came to France illegally or who...
ABUJA, 21 December 2020 – African countries can either not afford or have not ordered the first doses of the COVID-19 vaccine even as rich countries, like Canada, have ordered in excess of their populations. Africa might not see vaccines until after the second quarter...
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NIAMEY, NIGER, 20 JUNE 2018 – Violent and repeated cross border raids by jihadist insurgents hitting western parts of Niger close to the border with neighboring Mali have forced 16,000 people to flee their homes, according to the United Nations. The majority of the...
DAMBOA, NIGERIA, 18 JUNE 2018 – Boko Haram militants are suspected to behind two suicide bomb attacks Saturday evening in which at least 31 people were killed and more than 40 others injured in the town of Damboa in Nigeria’s north-eastern Borno State. Nigerian...
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