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Former Zimbabwe President Robert Mugabe has died at 95, President Emmerson Mnangagwa announced Friday. Mugabe became the first prime minister of newly independent Zimbabwe, formerly known as Rhodesia, in 1980. He held office for over three decades before being deposed in a coup in 2017. Mugabe gestures towards the media in Geneva, Switzerland, at a …
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Fairfax / Getty Images Robert Mugabe in 1981, shortly after he was named prime minister of Zimbabwe Until he was ousted two years ago, Robert Mugabe was the only president I and the other "born frees" - the generation born after independence in 1980 - had ever known. Mugabe was my grandmother's president, my mother's …
Edo State Governor, Mr. Godwin Obaseki (middle); Widow of the deceased, Justice Abigail Oni-Okpaku (3rd left); Chief Justice of the State, Justice Esohe Ikponmwen (left); Commissioner for Environment and Sustainability, Dame Omua Oni-Okpaku (4th right); Chairman, Owan West Local Government Area, Frank Ilaboya (3rd right); dignitaries and members of the Oni-Okpaku family during the funeral …
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A transcript of President Donald Trump's phone conversation with Ukrainian President Volodymr Zelensky which was released by the White House, has revealed that he pushed Ukraine repeatedly to probe his political opponent Joe Biden and his son, Hunter Biden, who sat on the board of a Ukrainian natural gas company. While Trump admitted to discussing Biden in a …
Biafran soldiers on 31 July 1968 AFP France secretly armed Biafra in the self-proclaimed republic’s attempt to break away from Nigeria in a bid to weaken British and US influence in Africa, documents seen by RFI reveal 50 years after the beginning of a war that cost up to two million lives. The ethnic Igbo-majority …
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