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A new report by the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) says the Nigerian market tops the list of cocaine smuggling regions in Africa. In The Global Report on Cocaine 2023 released on Thursday, the UN agency said the steep growth in supply has been matched by a similar swell in demand. […]
The Ethiopian government has scrapped visas-on-arrival for Nigerians with immediate effect. In a statement on Tuesday, the government said travellers would need to obtain their visas at its embassy in Abuja before embarking on any trip to the country. The development comes barely two weeks after Ethiopian Airlines emerged as the core investor […]
The Foreign Minister of Russia, Sergei Lavrov, has dismissed claims that Moscow caused the global food crisis nations are experiencing right now. He said this during a speech to Arab League ambassadors in Cairo, he said Western nations were distorting the truth about the impact of sanctions on global food security. Lavrov accused […]
Russia’s war in Ukraine has pushed the number of forcibly displaced people around the world above 100 million for the first time ever, the United Nations said Monday. “The number of people forced to flee conflict, violence, human rights violations and persecution has now crossed the staggering milestone of 100 million for the […]
Two rights groups on Wednesday said security forces and their allies in a disputed part of northern Ethiopia committed abuses against Tigrayans that amounted to war crimes and crimes against humanity. Amnesty International (AI) and Human Rights Watch (HRW) said Tigrayan civilians had been targeted in “a relentless campaign of ethnic cleansing” in […]
President Muhammadu Buhari on Sunday during a meeting with Ethiopian Prime Minister, Abiy Ahmed, at the Headquarters of African Union in Addis Ababa, urged the leader to stay focused on keeping the country in spite of difficulties, as Nigeria would continue to support them. Buhari commended the efforts of the Prime Minister in […]
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