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Cap washing: Northern Nigeria's enduring culture and business
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Cap washing: Northern Nigeria's enduring culture and business

Northern Nigeria's culturally rooted tradition of wearing colourful, finely embroidered headgear as part of daily attire has spawned a thriving industry around washing and starching these caps. Caps have been an integral part of sartorial culture since ancient times, with evidence suggesting thei...

Quarante-sept détenus s'évadent d'une prison libérienne
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Quarante-sept détenus s'évadent d'une prison libérienne

Le ministère de la Justice se dit "profondément préoccupé par cet incident et prend toutes les mesures nécessaires pour assurer la capture des détenus évadés". Quarante-sept détenus se sont évadés d'une prison de haute sécurité dans le comté de Margibi au Libéria, une zone rurale située à l'est d...

SA to continue genocide case against Israel
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SA to continue genocide case against Israel

The South African government says it will continue with its case against Israel at the International Court of Justice, where Israel is accused of committing genocide in Gaza. The genocide case against Israel at the International Court of Justice (ICJ) will continue and South Africa will file a me...

Aƙalla fursunoni 47 sun tsere daga gidan kurkuku a Liberia
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Aƙalla fursunoni 47 sun tsere daga gidan kurkuku a Liberia

Mahukunta a Liberia sun ce aƙalla fursunoni 47 ne suka tsere daga babban gian yarin babban birnin kasar Monrovia. Fursunoni da dama ne suka tsere daga babban gidan yari da ke wajen Monrovina babban birnin Liberia a ƙarshen makon da ya gabata, in ji mahukunta a ranar Litinin. Fursunonin 47 sun tse...

Kenyan court halts bid to lease main airport to Indian billionaire
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Kenyan court halts bid to lease main airport to Indian billionaire

Kenya's government has said the airport is operating above capacity and needs modernising. A Kenyan high court has temporarily blocked a proposed deal for Adani Group to lease the country's main airport for 30 years in exchange for expanding it, court documents showed. In a joint application, the...

Ugandan athlete Cheptegei's 'attacker' dies in hospital
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Ugandan athlete Cheptegei's 'attacker' dies in hospital

Dickson Ndiema died on Monday night, three days after the Ugandan athlete he allegedly attacked with petrol and fire died. The man who allegedly attacked Ugandan runner Rebecca Cheptegei has died from injuries sustained when he poured petrol over the Olympic athlete, the Kenyan hospital treating...

Jamaica to send 24 police officers to Haiti
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Jamaica to send 24 police officers to Haiti

Jamaica has announced that it will send 24 police officers to Haiti, the first of its 200 troops scheduled for Haiti mission. Jamaican Prime Minister Andrew Holness announced on Tuesday that his government will send an initial deployment of 24 military and police personnel to Haiti to support an...

Somalia rolls out nationwide polio vaccination campaign
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Somalia rolls out nationwide polio vaccination campaign

Somalia has rolled out a nationwide polio vaccination drive targeting children under the age of 5. Somalia has initiated a major polio vaccination campaign aimed at immunising over four million children under the age of five, according to the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF). The campaign,...

Le crash d'un petit avion aux États-Unis fait 4 morts
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Le crash d'un petit avion aux États-Unis fait 4 morts

L'administration fédérale de l'aviation enquête sur le mystérieux accident d'avion qui a coûté la vie à 4 personnes. Au moins quatre personnes ont perdu la vie après le crash d'un petit avion dans l'État américain du Vermont. Selon un communiqué de la police de l'État du Vermont, un petit avion a...