Three escaped detainees in Mauritania have been killed and one other detained after a shootout with security forces, the Mauritanian authorities said on Saturday. Earlier this week, the four inmates escaped the central prison in Mauritania’s capital, Nouakchott, during a breakout in which two soldiers were killed by gunfire, according to the[Read More…]
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Spain To Extend Seasonal Migrant Workers Programme To Senegal
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…]
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…]