West Africa
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The Muslim Rights Concern (MURIC) has advised the Nigerian military not to emulate the Gabonese army that on Wednesday overthrown President Ali Bongo in a bloodless Coup d’etat. MURIC’s Executive Director, Prof. Ishaq Akintola, gave the advice in a statement on Wednesday. “While we frown upon the sit-tight syndrome adopted by the Bongo family in Gabon…
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Ivory Coast’s former president Laurent Gbagbo returned home to Abidjan on Thursday, nearly a decade after he was ousted from power and sent to The Hague to face war crimes charges of which he was later acquitted. Laurent Gbagbo’s homecoming is viewed as a key test of stability in Ivory Coast, the world’s biggest cocoa producer and a…
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