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- Central African Republic football official arrested on suspicion of war crimes
Patrice-Edouard Ngaïssona, a committee member of the Confederation of African Football, has been arrested in France, on an ICC warrant charging him with coordinating attacks on Central African Republic Muslims in 2013 and 2014.Sport News - Hunting Boko Haram: Nigerian warrior ‘queen’ leads flintlock-armed fight against Islamist extremists
They used to hunt animals with spears and sticks, but now, wielding ancient rifles and led by a fearless warrior ‘queen’, a Nigerian vigilante squad goes after Boko Haram, one of the most violent jihadist groups in Africa.World News - Russian bank’s fat-finger error almost gives poor African country six times its GDP
The Central African Republic (CAR) could have landed windfall on Tuesday after Russian state bank VTB reported it had almost lent the country $12 billion by mistake. The sum is over six times the country’s gross domestic product.Business News - Hypocrisy overload? Hillary Clinton tells Europe to stem refugee flow to avoid 'populist politics'
It wasn’t too long ago that Hillary Clinton famously celebrated the intervention that turned Libya into a failed state and hotbed for terrorism. Now she’s telling Europe to ‘curb’ immigration from North Africa and Middle East.World News - White lion Mufasa locked in bizarre custody battle, fears animal could be sold to hunters
A rare white lion is at the center of a tug of war between conservationists and a South African government department, which one sanctuary fears could lead the animal to being auctioned off to huntersWorld News - China's ‘One Belt, One Road’ global investment plan mapped out
This year marks the fifth anniversary of the Belt and Road initiative, proposed by Chinese authorities in the autumn of 2013. The ambitious project is aimed at creating infrastructure networks linking Europe, Asia and Africa.Business News
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