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Nnamdi Kanu wearing a Jewish prayer shawl as he left his house in Umuahia in south-east Nigeria to meet veterans of the Nigerian civil war in May 2017. Photograph: Marco Longari/AFP/Getty Images A Biafra separatist leader and UK national was arrested by Nigerian authorities in Kenya and taken to Nigeria in an act of extraordinary rendition, his …
"In May 2020, Lucien Kabuga, an 86 years old Rwandan fugitive was captured in France. Kabuga had been a fugitive for 26 years. He had been sought by Interpol, FBI, the international crimes tribunal, the Rwanda government and an international union of bounty hunters. Two years earlier, the US state department had placed a 5 …
Kenneth Kaunda As Zambia’s founding president Kenneth Kaunda, who has died aged 97, was an idealist and a visionary who played a key role in supporting African nationalism. During his 9,860 days in office from 1964, Kenneth Kaunda fought for majority rule of his neighbours, hosting the headquarters of the ANC and SWAPO in Lusaka …
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Sue (a Trump Supporter) "A day in the life of Sue the Trump supporter… Sue gets up at 6 a.m. and fills her coffeepot with water to prepare her morning coffee. The water is clean and good because some tree-hugging liberal fought for minimum water-quality standards. With her first swallow of coffee, she takes her …
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The People’s Republic of China has imposed sanctions against four barristers of England and Wales and their “immediate families”. The chambers in which the barristers work as independent self-employed legal practitioners was also specifically named in the announcement of sanctions, affecting hundreds of people unconnected with the work of the four members. These sanctions are …
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Centre for Nigeria Progress 