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A political crisis triggered by a feud between the governor of Rivers state, Siminalayi Fubara, and his predecessor, Nyesom ...

Ackermans is Looking for New Staff 01 April 2025,” starts a Facebook post, shared over 4,000 times on the platform. According ...

A screenshot circulating on Facebook shows a column from Kenya’s Star newspaper. It suggests that former president Uhuru Kenyatta is brokering a political ...

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IN SHORT: Several social media posts claim that the Democratic Republic of the Congo has publicly executed hundreds of prisoners on death row. But there is no credible evidence of this, with most of ...

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No, Nigerian senator Enyinnaya Abaribe didn’t 'shut down' the national assembly to demand the release of Ipob leader Nnamdi Kanu A claim has gone viral on Facebook, saying that the former minority ...

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