Dozens dead after gunmen ransack central Nigerian villages

Gunmen have killed over 100 people after ransacking a group of villages in central Nigeria, local sources said, in one of worst attacks this year blamed on heavily armed criminal gangs who terrorise parts of the country.
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Egypt prosecution says no criminal suspicion in economist’s death

Egypt's state-appointed human rights council has urged prosecutors to investigate whether an economic researcher, who authorities say died in a state mental health facility last month, was a victim of forced disappearance. The country’s public prosecution said there was no criminal suspicion in the death.
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SA developer quit his job to fold origami, and landed deals with Dior, RedBull, and Pixar

South African website developer Ross Symons quit his ad agency job in 2014 and started folding origami animals that he posted daily on Instagram. But one year later, French fashion house Christian Dior commissioned him to create origami for a campaign that paid double his old salary. Since then he's secured deals folding origami art for global brands such as Red Bull, Investec, Samsung, Adidas, McDonald's, Disney, and Nordstrom.
#rosssymons #nordstrom

Gunmen in Nigeria train attack show more hostages

Gunmen who carried out a high-profile attack on a train in northwest Nigeria last month have released a video showing about two dozen of the hostages they kidnapped in the assault.
#gunmen #nigeriantrain

Food aid starts to flow into northern Ethiopia after 'mini-truce'

The World Food Programme (WFP) in Ethiopia says, by Friday last week, an estimated 200 000 people in parts of Amhara had received food aid since the mini-truce was put in place. Amhara is one of the hardest-hit areas by the conflict in the north, and the Ethiopian government says repairing infrastructural damage could take up to 30 years.
#foodaid #worldfoodprogramme

Sudanese protesters mark third anniversary of Bashir’s removal

Crowds of Sudanese protesters gathered in parts of the capital, Khartoum, and other cities on Monday to mark the third anniversary of former leader Omar al-Bashir’s removal and to protest the prospect of renewed military rule.
#sudan #bashir #sudanese

Death toll from DR Congo blast revised down to six

Authorities in DR Congo on Friday said six people died in a blast in the country's troubled east caused by a suspected bomb. The previous toll from the explosion on Thursday in Goma, the capital of North Kivu province, had been put at eight dead.
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Bobi Wine calls on world leaders to cut ties with Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni

More than 85% of Ugandans have seen no other president in their lifetime, because President Yoweri Museveni has always changed the constitution to stay in power, opposition leader Bobi Wine said at the Geneva Summit for Human Rights and Democracy this week.
#bobiwine #yowerimuseveni #uganda

Nigeria's VP Osinbajo to seek ruling party ticket to run for president

Nigerian vice president Yemi Osinbajo will seek the ruling All Progressives Party (APC) ticket to run for president next February, he said in a Twitter message on Monday, as he bids to succeed his boss Muhammadu Buhari in Africa's top oil producer.
#yemiosibanjo #nigeria #presidentialticket

Nigeria grants MTN licence for mobile money banking service

The Central Bank of Nigeria has approved the licence for MTN's Mobile Money (MoMo) Payment Service Bank in the country, extending its services to wider banking operations, it was announced on Monday.
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