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Niger’s President Mahamadou Issoufou took a solid lead Friday in the uranium-rich nation’s presidential election but will face an unprecedented run-off against jailed opposition leader Hama Amadou on March 20. Check also: Niger opposition rejects initial election results citing fraud The narrow win for Mahamadou Issoufou, who is known as the “Zaki” or “Lion” in Hausa, came after he had ...

Kenyans are “experienced in stealing and perpetuating other crimes”, the president has said, during a state visit to Israel.Uhuru Kenyatta added that Kenya was “20 times more wonderful” than Israel, but “all we ever do is complain”. Check also:Deny your husbands sex if they don’t register to vote says Kenyan MP Kenyans were also abusers, and promoted tribalism, he said, ...

At dawn on February 10, a camp for displaced people in the northeast Nigerian town of Dikwa began stirring to life. Three unaccompanied young girls asking for shelter had arrived the day before, and spent the night with approximately 50,000 others who had fled the Islamist terrorist group Boko Haram. Check also:Barrack Obama Ordered 300 US Troops To Cameroon To ...

A Kenyan MP has urged women to employ an odd tactic in a bid to encourage their husbands to register to vote in the 2017 general elections, deprive them of their conjugal rights. Check also: Kenya Was Voted The World’s Top Safari Destination – 2015 Esther Murugi, MP for Nyeri Town in central Kenya, has also called on Kenyan women ...

In 1987, workers began constructing what would be the tallest hotel in the world in Pyongyang, North Korea.[2] The frame was finished two years later – a little behind schedule, the structure was supposed to open in 1989. Then in 1992, after the collapse of ally and backer the Soviet Union, work stopped completely on Ryugyong Hotel.[9] Check also: This ...