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Nigeria begins hearings into police brutality

A Lagos state government judicial panel began hearings on Tuesday, a week after the killing of activists protesting police brutality in Nigeria. President Muhammadu Buhari tweeted on Sunday that the panel had his "full support", but protesters say his administration has…

Gunmen kidnap American in southern Niger

A local Nigerien government official says, gunmen kidnapped an American citizen in Niger early hours of Tuesday and demanded a ransom from his relatives. Ibrahim Abba Lele, a prefect in Birni-N’Konni town, told The Associated Press that Philipe Nathan Walton…

Sierra Leone defers mid-term census to April 2021

Sierra Leone's mid-term census which had been set initially to start on 4th December this year, is now rescheduled to begin on 19th April 2021. In an interview with Patrick Sallia in Freetown, Director of Communications at the country's Statistics…