WESTERN SAHARA: The Polisario movement’s 16th congress set for election

Morocco has proposed wide-ranging autonomy for Western Sahara. But the Polisario Front insists the local population, which it estimates at 350,000 to 500,000, has the right to a referendum.

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Slave Trade: Apology Is Nothing Without Compensation

The Dutch PM forgets, or more likely prefers to ignore, the fact that when the Britain passed the Slavery Abolition Act in 1833, the British government offered to pay a £20 million “compensation” (about £17 billion today) not to the Africans enslaved, but to the slave-owners who considered abolition as a loss of their property. 

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BREAKING NEWS: Popular Nigerian journalist dumped in Kuje prison

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Man allegedly charged N150,000 for bail dies in cell, police order autopsy

Ikenga said: “The suspects were arrested on 23/12/2022 by the vigilante operatives Awka and were handed over to Police at State CID, annex, Awkuzu for further investigation.”

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