AFP Bureau Chief for Nigeria and Ghana. Previously in Hong Kong, Johannesburg, Lagos, Dakar & Harare. https://teapaw.org/t.co/S3P6C4pRMP
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A Swiss woman diagnosed with Ebola was being cared for in an isolation unit in Geneva on Monday, having been repatriated from Nigeria on a medical evacuation flight.
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Nigeria has recorded its first Ebola case of Africa's latest outbreak, in a woman who had travelled from Uganda to the capital Abuja medicalxpress.com/news/2026-…
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NEW: The top five finalists of the prestigious African Investigative Journalist of the Year Award 2026 have been selected from a record number of 204 entries received from across the continent. #AIJC2026
🔍 Read more here: aijc.africa/africas-top-five…
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🇰🇪 Nairobi will host the 2029 world outdoor athletics championships, beating off competition from London, Munich and Rome to become the first African hosts, World Athletics announced Tuesday.
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ALT Kenya's Lilian Odira celebrates after winning the women's 800m final during the 2025 World Athletics Championships in Tokyo.
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🇵🇭 ⚖️ Former Philippine president Rodrigo Duterte is suffering from severe memory loss that means he sometimes forgets his lawyer's name, according to the defence team preparing his case at the International Criminal Court ➡️ u.afp.com/SjXN
ALT File photo shows former Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte on a screen in the courtroom during his first appearance before the International Criminal Court (ICC) on charge of crimes against humanity over his deadly crackdown on narcotics, in The Hague on March 14, 2025
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Paved roads give way to a dirt path choked with overgrown shrubs, the barbed wire-topped walls of housing estates swapped for one-room shacks built from corrugated iron sheets and wooden planks. This is home for Nigerians fleeing a jihadist insurgency. u.afp.com/SjXd
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More than 100,000 people in Japan are now aged 100 or older bbc.in/4cMmccg
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Foreign nationals targeted in S. Africa's extortion explosion.
The trial of a South African and his two sons, one a police officer, accused of extorting around 50 stores run by Ethiopians and Somalis has highlighted the targeting of foreign-owned "spaza" shops in a growing extortion economy
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K-pop stars BTS draw 50,000-strong crowd in Mexico.
Fans of BTS gathered outside Mexico's National Palace to get a look at the group, who waved to the crowd from a balcony after meeting with President Claudia Sheinbaum
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Some 50,000 fans of BTS welcome the South Korean group at Mexico's Zocalo, a day before the first of three concerts in the country.
The members of the group wave to their fans from the main balcony of the presidential palace after a meeting with President Claudia Sheinbaum
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The moringa tree, known as the “miracle tree”, is one of the most nutrient-dense plants on the planet and is prized for its healing qualities. It also has another huge benefit, according to new research: it’s excellent at removing microplastics from water. cnn.it/4tL6KDG
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🇺🇸 🇬🇧 Without Brits 'you'd be speaking French': King Charles III pokes fun at Trump
King Charles III poked fun at US President Donald Trump at a White House state dinner joking that, without the British, Americans would be speaking French. This was in response to a comment from Trump at the Davos summit in January, in which he said that without US help in World War II, "you'd be speaking German and a little Japanese"
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#BREAKING Press freedom at lowest level in 25 years: Media rights watchdog RSF
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Would have been nice to report on this inside the courtroom, but @AFP (along with a number of Nigerian media and reporters for @Reuters, @BBCAfrica and @DeutscheWelle) were all arbitrarily barred
(I wish I could say this was a rare occurence) premiumtimesng.com/news/head…
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A customs memo seen by AFP is warning of jihadist attacks in Abuja, with the airport and Kuje prison as potential targets theafricareport.com/415191/j…
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Nigeria's Lagos state has taken out a $7.5 million flood insurance policy to cover millions of people, the Insurance Development Forum said Thursday, as the country's economic capital faces rising sea levels and floods linked to climate change uk.finance.yahoo.com/news/la…
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Islamist militants killed at least 170 people in attacks on two villages in Kwara state, as jihadi groups expand into Nigeria’s north-west and border regions. @FT uses ACLED data to map the violence against civilians by Islamist groups since January 2020: ft.com/content/7ab6ff74-b03c…
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Nigeria’s first lady Remi Tinubu met with US members of Congress and Trump administration officials last week to press her case that Abuja is protecting Christians, a source familiar with the meetings told AFP on Monday vanguardngr.com/2026/02/remi…
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Does the latest track by your favorite singer sound slightly off? You may be right. Fraudulent AI-generated tracks are increasingly appearing in artists' own profiles on streaming platforms, presented as their original work.
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