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Children as young as 11 are being beheaded by Islamist (Isis-linked) militants in Mozambique’s northern province of Cabo Delgado. This is according to the new report from the aid agency, Save the Children. The armed groups, locally known as al-Shabab (“young people” in Arabic), have been perpetrating terror for more than three years in the […]

An attempt to kidnap hundreds of schoolboys in northwestern Nigeria has been prevented by security agents, according to a statement issued by a state official on Sunday. This comes days after dozens of students were kidnapped in the latest mass abduction. The kidnapping of 39 students on Thursday was the most recent in a series […]

Following the government’s ratification of a draft law, it is only a matter of time before Morocco fully legalises the medical use of Cannabis. However, the government on Thursday maintained that a ban be put on its recreational use. Moreover, the draft law for medical use still needs approval from the parliament. The move would […]

One of Senegal’s biggest music stars over the last four decades, Thione Seck has been confirmed dead by his lawyer. The veteran singer died at the age of 66 in Dakar on Sunday. “He died this morning of an illness at the Fann hospital,” lawyer Ousmane Seye told AFP, thus confirming the reports in the […]