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Nimi Princewill is a Nigerian journalist famed for exposing government corruption in his home country. Before joining CNN in 2021, Nimi worked as a reporter at Peoples Gazette, a Nigerian online newspaper notable for its investigative journalism. Nimi reported exclusively on a number of high-profile stories, including the disbandment of the brutal police unit known as SARS, hours before the official announcement.

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Airstrike kills at least 70 seeking care at last functioning hospital in North Darfur capital as ...

Airstrike kills at least 70 seeking care at last functioning hospital in North Darfur capital as ...

At least 70 people were killed after a drone strike targeted the last functioning hospital in the besieged ca…

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Across Africa, Russia is growing in influence. What might Moscow want? | CNN

Across Africa, Russia is growing in influence. What might Moscow want? | CNN

Reliance on Russia's military offerings has become increasingly prevalent in parts of Africa, amid an aggress…

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Genocide is declared once more in Sudan. How did the country get here? | CNN

Genocide is declared once more in Sudan. How did the country get here? | CNN

This week, the United States accused the RSF militia in Sudan's brutal civil conflict of committing genocide.…

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Macron's claim that Africans failed to say 'thank you' for French military aid sparks outrage | C...

Macron's claim that Africans failed to say 'thank you' for French military aid sparks outrage | C...

African governments have criticized a speech by French President Emmanuel Macron in which he said that some l…

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Dozens die in shipwrecks off Tunisia as 2025 is already deadly for migrants in Mediterranean | CN...

Dozens die in shipwrecks off Tunisia as 2025 is already deadly for migrants in Mediterranean | CN...

At least 27 people have died after two boats carrying migrants sunk off the coast of Tunisia on Wednesday, ac…

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Crowd crush kills 35 children at funfair in Nigeria, police say | CNN

Crowd crush kills 35 children at funfair in Nigeria, police say | CNN

At least 35 children were killed and six others critically injured in a crowd crush at a funfair in the Niger…

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‘I’m a dead man walking’: The Ethiopian migrants waiting on Saudi Arabia’s death row

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Amanuel wakes up each day not knowing if it will be his last. A rap at his cell door could mean his time is up; no farewell call, no last meal. Executions in Saudi Arabia often arrive without warning. "I'm a dead man walking," he says. "After my friends were executed, I don't eat food, I don't drink water." Amanuel is a pseudonym for one young prisoner who's been imprisoned for several years. CNN obtained his account from inside Khamis Mushait prison, in the southwest of Saudi Arabia.
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‘Leave or return in a coffin’: The threat driving migrants out of South Africa Original

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See all topics Email Link Copied! For months, anti-migrant rhetoric had been building across South Africa. Then it reached Kaunga Nyirenda’s doorstep. In early June, two men gave the Malawian gardener, who lives in a Johannesburg suburb, a chilling ultimatum: leave now or face death. “They asked me: ‘When are you going to leave the country? We want to fix our country. If you don’t leave now, you’re going to leave in a coffin because we don’t need anyone after 30th of June,’” he said of the ultimatum.
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Kenya protests US-funded Ebola ward amid fears of ‘double standards’

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“Kenya is not an American colony!” That was the chant echoing through Nairobi and other Kenyan cities last week as furious protesters vented their anger at plans for a U.S.-funded isolation ward for Americans exposed to Ebola abroad. The controversial proposal has sparked fears of Ebola entering a country that has never recorded a single case of the often-fatal disease.
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