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At least 10 students were abducted by gunmen in northwest Nigeria, authorities said on Tuesday. Students from the Government Secondary School in Kaduna state were abducted during an attack Monday, however, it was unclear exactly where they were kidnapped from, said Samuel Aruwan, the state commissioner of security. “The exact location of the incident is yet to be ascertained but… Read More

Between 1984 and 1985, artists Jean-Michel Basquiat and Andy Warhol created around 160 paintings together, including some of the largest works produced during their respective careers. A new exhibit in Paris is now dedicated to their prolific collaboration. The two artists first met through their agent, art dealer Bruno Bischofberger. In autumn 1982, Bischofberger brought 21-year-old Basquiat to 54-year-old Warhol’s… Read More

Amidst ongoing energy crisis, South African officials have revoked the national state of disaster wednesday. The South African government has revoked the national state of disaster Wednesday, declared in February to manage the crippling power crisis. Government officials announced they will be working to reduce the impact of power cuts using existing legislation. The country’s ongoing energy crisis has crippled… Read More

The port of Pointe-Noire, the economic and oil capital of Congo-Brazzaville, received on Wednesday its first cruise ship carrying foreign tourists, a sign of the economic diversification sought by the Congolese government. Finnish flag floating in the air, 115 meters of steel carrying 150 tourists of various nationalities, the SH Vega cruise ship was welcomed in the port of the… Read More

A half-brother of Togolese President Faure Gnassingbé, accused of trying to overthrow power in 2009 and detained since then, has been evacuated to Gabon for ” sanitary reasons” , one of his aides told AFP on Wednesday. Considered the mastermind of a failed putsch, Kpatcha Gnassingbé, former Minister of Defense (2005-2007) aged 52, was sentenced in September 2011 to 20… Read More

The Athletics Integrity Unit (AIU) on Tuesday condemned large-scale doping in Kenya, which has recently faced several cases that “highlight the involvement of people with medical experience,” according to the AIU president. “It is clear that doping in Kenya is becoming increasingly organized and these cases highlight the involvement of people with medical experience,” IAU President David Howman said in… Read More

Three Guinean doctors were found guilty Tuesday of the death of a young woman from rape in a private clinic, in a case that shocked the country, an AFP reporter noted. M’Mah Sylla, a 25-year-old secretary, died in 2021 in Tunisia, where she had been evacuated for treatment after being raped in a hospital in Conakry, the Guinean government announced… Read More

Rights activists on Tuesday accused the Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (ZEC), where presidential and parliamentary elections are due to be held in August, of disclosing the phone numbers of voters who they said had received “intimidation” messages from the ruling party. According to local NGO Team Pachedu, voters, some of them newly registered, have received personalized text messages in Shona (the… Read More

Dakar is seeking to identify the remains of “about twenty” Senegalese who drowned at the end of March in the sinking of their boat off Tunisia, said an official statement on Monday. A Senegalese mission went to Sfax, the starting point in central-eastern Tunisia of the shipwrecked boat, for a mission to identify the bodies, according to a press release… Read More

Every March, sour orange trees are in full bloom in Nabeul, the Tunisian city known for this fruit which is also called ‘bigarade orange’. Samia Marzoug is busy harvesting the flowers off the trees in her yard. The flowers are sought for their strong and sublime fragrance. In Tunisia, they are widely used in the preparation of meals. “I am… Read More