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Tears and singing as abducted Nigerian students return to parents
Nearly two months after their abduction by armed gunmen, more than two dozen students in northwest Nigeria’s Kaduna state were reunited with jubilant family members on Friday amid tears and celebratory singing.
- by Garba Muhammad and Bosan Yakusak
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How giant snails helped confirm the oldest human burial in Africa
Researchers have confirmed the oldest known human burial site in Africa - a young boy buried at least 78,000 years ago.
- by Stuart Layt
Zulu regent Queen Dlamini dies a month after taking reign
“This has taken us by surprise and left us utterly bereft,” Prince Mangosutho Buthelezi said.
- by Nqobile Dludla
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War
‘I don’t have words’: The quiet anguish of the world’s doctor
He is the world’s doctor, and for months he has tirelessly led the global response to the coronavirus pandemic while privately nursing a piercing anguish.
- by Nicholas Kristof
Chad’s president killed on battlefield after 30 years in power
The stunning announcement came just hours after electoral officials had declared Deby the winner of the April 11 presidential election.
- by Edouard Takadji and Krista Larson
Cape Town fire burns university library, students evacuated
A wildfire raging on the slopes of Table Mountain spread to the University of Cape Town, burning the historic campus library that houses priceless collections.
The rich made $6.5 trillion in the pandemic. The UN chief wants them to give some back
The pandemic has caused 3 million deaths, the worst global recession in 90 years, some 120 million people falling back into extreme poverty, and the equivalent of 255 million full-time jobs lost.
- by Edith Lederer
Twelve headless bodies discovered in pit near Mozambique foreigners’ hotel
Local authorities have speculated that the bodies could be the remains of some of the foreigners taken hostage by extremists
- by Roland Olyphant and Peta Thornycroft
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Extremism
Headless bodies litter streets of Mozambique town
Palma is the centre of one of Africa’s biggest gas deposits, where Total plans to extract liquified natural gas from offshore sites in the Indian Ocean.
- by Andrew Meldrum
Several dead in Mozambique battle entering sixth day
The attacks in Palma started just hours after the French energy company Total announced that it would resume work on a huge natural gas project.
- by Andrew Meldrum
‘Horrific’: Men forced to rape family members in Tigray, says UN
Condemned by the US, Ethiopia’s Nobel peace prize-winning Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed has acknowledged atrocities and withdrawn Eritrean troops from Tigray.
- by Michelle Nichols