Spain is extending a so-called circular migration programme to its first sub-Saharan African country, bringing in at least 100 people from Senegal to work on its farms during the harvest season, a government source said. The programme, due to start in April, aims to replicate the success of a 22-year-old[Read More…]
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Bola Tinubu Wins Nigeria’s Presidential Election Against Atiku Abubakar & Peter Obi
Ruling party candidate Bola Tinubu has been declared the winner of Nigeria’s disputed presidential election. The 70-year-old veteran politician got 36% of the vote, official results show. His main rival Atiku Abubakar polled 29%, and Labour’s Peter Obi 25%. Their parties had earlier dismissed the poll as a sham, and[Read More…]
Three U.N. Peacekeepers From Senegal Killed In Central Mali
Three peacekeepers from Senegal were killed and five seriously injured after their convoy hit an improvised explosive device in central Mali, the U.N. peacekeeping mission in the country and Senegal’s army said on Tuesday. Mali is struggling to stem an Islamist insurgency that took root after a 2012 coup and[Read More…]
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