What you need to know: British PM’s parents were part of the ‘stateless’ Indians who had found themselves characterised as the ‘undesirables’ of the British Empire and struggled to reach London – where a quota system on British Asian migrants was in place When new British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak’s parents left Kenya in the 1960s,  it was not…

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Two cars packed with explosives were detonated minutes apart near the busy Zobe junction Mogadishu: The number of people killed in an attack on Saturday at a busy intersection in the Somali capital Mogadishu has risen to 100, President Hassan Sheikh Mohamud said on Sunday. “So far, people who died have reached 100 and 300 are wounded, and the…

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Two cars packed with explosives were detonated minutes apart near the busy Zobe junction Mogadishu: The number of people killed in an attack on Saturday at a busy intersection in the Somali capital Mogadishu has risen to 100, President Hassan Sheikh Mohamud said on Sunday. “So far, people who died have reached 100 and 300 are wounded, and the…

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Little rainfall, aggressive heatwaves and worsening drought make the Middle East the most water-stressed region in the world, with climate change threatening to displace millions of people. Hussein Abu Saddam, head of the farmers’ syndicate in Egypt which is hosting the COP27 global climate summit in November, told AFP he is already witness to a climate-induced exodus from the…

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Little rainfall, aggressive heatwaves and worsening drought make the Middle East the most water-stressed region in the world, with climate change threatening to displace millions of people. Hussein Abu Saddam, head of the farmers’ syndicate in Egypt which is hosting the COP27 global climate summit in November, told AFP he is already witness to a climate-induced exodus from the…

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The city of Lagos will reverberate tomorrow evening as African filmmakers and stars gather for the 18th edition of prestigious Africa Movie Academy Awards, AMAA. The glamorous event, which will be broadcast live on ST Nollywood channels on StarTimes and StarTimes-ON mobile app respectively, will take place at the bespoke Jewel Aeida hall, Lekki phase I, Lagos. During the…

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The city of Lagos will reverberate tomorrow evening as African filmmakers and stars gather for the 18th edition of prestigious Africa Movie Academy Awards, AMAA. The glamorous event, which will be broadcast live on ST Nollywood channels on StarTimes and StarTimes-ON mobile app respectively, will take place at the bespoke Jewel Aeida hall, Lekki phase I, Lagos. During the…

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The European Union (EU) has engaged Teniola Akpata, a popular artist and  Eniola Adeoluwa, brand influencer , as ambassadors of a campaign to promote its partnership with Africa. The EU ambassador to Nigeria and Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS), Ms Samuela Isopi, disclosed  this at a  briefing  Thursday in Lagos. She said the campaign tagged, ‘We See…

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