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Russian President Vladimir Putin has announced the launch of a military operation against Ukraine which he says aims to “demilitarize and denazify” it. “I made the decision for a special military operation”, he said in a surprise statement on television this Thursday, denouncing once again a “genocide” orchestrated by the …

During a sermon on Sunday, David Ibiyeomie, a Nigerian pastor of Salvation Ministries church said people who do not pay their tithes are criminals. The evangelist insisted on the obligation for the Christian to give 10% of his monthly income to the church. Comparing tithing to paying taxes to the …

Nigerian National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) has destroyed about 255 hectares of cannabis farms in Ondo state in the south-west of the country. “Thirteen suspects were arrested and 250 kilogrammes of cannabis seeds as well as 63.85 kilogrammes (of) cannabis weeds were recovered,” the AFP news agency quotes the …

Seven people have died and many more injured after an illegal mine collapsed on Tuesday morning in Gololcha district in Ethiopia’s Oromia region, many media reported. “Eleven people were injured and taken to hospital, some with serious injuries,” local authorities were quoted as saying by the BBC. The victims were …

A London court will on Wednesday begin to hear a lawsuit launched by Nigeria against U.S. bank JP Morgan Chase, claiming more than $1.7 billion for its role in a disputed 2011 oilfield deal, Reuters reports. The civil suit filed in the English courts in 2017 relates to the purchase …

Ugandan author Kakwenza Rukirabashaija, imprisoned and tortured for making unflattering comments about President Yoweri Museveni and his son on Twitter, fled the country a fortnight ago and arrived in Germany, his lawyer has told AFP news agency. “He arrived in Germany this morning,” Eron Kiiza, the lawyer, is quoted as …

Yemeni hackers, the hacking group that took over more than 30 websites in Mozambique on Monday, are now demanding money before unlocking them, hours after the government said it had repelled the attacks. Accusing the government of underestimating the scale of the attack, the hackers have placed a message in …

Suspected Islamists killed at least 18 people in an attack in western Niger, local media reported on Tuesday, citing authorities. According to the government, armed bandits on motorbikes attacked a truck transporting people between two villages in the Tillaberi region. Militants linked to IS and al-Qaeda are active in the …

The International Monetary Fund (IMF) has warned the Somali government against another postponement of the elections, with the risk of stopping all assistance to the country. The financial institution said it could end its support program for Somalia within the next three months if the scheduled elections were to suffer …

The Somali Islamist militant group al-Shabab spent huge sums of money in 2021 to purchase weapons, according to a report by a Mogadishu-based research group, the Hiraal Institute. The research group claims that Al Shabab spent around $24 million to purchase weapons. The report further alleges that al-Shabab, which is …