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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Africa has the world’s youngest population and its oldest leaders. If the next generation wants change, young Africans must abandon dreams of private-sector success and enter the political arena. President of Cameroon Paul Biya (L) walks with Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari (R) following his arrival at the airport in Yaoundé, Cameroon, on July 29, 2015. …
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We run through the rules in European countries where Britons are seeking to escape Brexit •UK applicants for Irish passports ‘face excessive delays and costs’ When Guardian Money surveyed other major EU countries, it emerges that Ireland is taking the brunt of applications from British citizens, with remarkably few requests going to other EU nations. …
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Editorial Felony murder is another surviving Jim Crow and poor laws. It's an instrument of racial confinement. In 2015, an Alabama police officer shot and killed a teenager burglarizing a home. While the officer was cleared, four other teens who were involved in the crime were all charged with their friend’s murder. But how can …
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The Presidential Election Petitions Tribunal’s tendentious and predictably predetermined judgement on September 11 that upheld Muhammadu Buhari’s electoral fraud was not such much a defeat of Atiku Abubakar as it was symbolic judicial violence on Nigeria and Nigerians. As I pointed out in my April 20, 2019 column titled “Atiku’s Citizenship and Buhari’s Illiterate Lawyers,” …
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