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Federal Executive Council ratifies Nigeria’s membership of AfCTA

Global UpfrontNov 11, 2020November 11, 20200

The Federal Executive Council (FEC) on Wednesday ratified Nigeria’s membership of African Continental Free Trade Area Agreement (AfCTA). The meeting was chaired by President Muhammed

Ethiopia’s troubled history provides clues to why an all-out civil war is possible

Global UpfrontNov 10, 2020November 10, 20200

By Francesca Baldwin & Heike I Schmidt, The Conversation, November 9, 2020 Ethiopia’s government, under Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed, is carrying out a military offensive

5-day regional summit on prevention of violent extremism in Lake Chad Basin holds in Chad

Global UpfrontOct 23, 2020October 23, 20200

The Multinational Joint Taskforce (MNJTF) and the Lake Chad Basin Commission (LCBC) in collaboration with the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) organised an inception workshop

African Heads of State call on world leaders to increase investment in IFAD to end rural hunger and poverty

Global UpfrontOct 19, 2020October 19, 20200

Ten African Heads of State have issued a strong call to other world leaders to increase their funding to the International Fund for Agricultural Development

Buhari “delighted at the successes recorded” in Mali

Global UpfrontOct 15, 2020October 15, 20200

President Muhammadu Buhari Thursday received updates on the Mali situation from the Special Envoy/Mediator to the West African country, former President Goodluck Jonathan, expressing delight

Libya detains 3 men for burning Nigerian to death

Global UpfrontOct 7, 2020October 7, 20200

Three Libyans killed a Nigerian man by setting him on fire in Tripoli, the interior ministry said on Wednesday, in what a U.N. agency described

Coronavirus: Girls in Masai tribes suffering grave abuse ‘as teen pregnancies and FGM cases sharply rise’

Global UpfrontSep 30, 2020September 30, 20200

‘Things are more chaotic in the wake of the COVID emergency. Women are more vulnerable so sexual violence increases,’ says campaigner Maya OppenheimWomen’s Correspondent@mayaoppenheim, (Independent

Does US military training incubate coups in Africa? The jury is still out

Global UpfrontSep 29, 2020September 29, 20200

By Lee J. M. Seymour & Theodore McLauchlin, The Conversion, September 28, 2020 Military officers overthrew Mali’s government in a coup d’état on August 18,

Coalition demands FG’s immediate evacuation of Nigerian traders in Ghana

Global UpfrontSep 28, 2020September 28, 20200

A coalition has called for the immediate evacuation Nigerian traders in Ghana to forestall “unsavory outcomes staring them in the face” in their host country.

South African defense Minister’s pay docked over use of military plane

Global UpfrontSep 27, 2020September 27, 20200

By Reuters, September 27, 2020 JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) – South Africa’s president has reprimanded defense minister Nosiviwe Mapisa-Nqakula and docked her pay for three months for