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Armed police ride in the back of a truck after the streets of the Haitian capital Port-au-Prince were deserted following a call for a general strike launched by several professional associations and companies to denounce insecurity in Port-au-Prince on October 18, 2021. - A nationwide general strike emptied the streets of Haiti's capital Port-au-Prince on Monday with organisers denouncing the rapidly disintegrating security situation highlighted by the kidnapping of American and Canadian missionaries at the weekend. The kidnapping of 17 adults and children by one of Haiti's brazen criminal gangs underlined the country's troubles following the assassination of president Jovenel Mose in July and amid mounting lawlessness in the Western hemisphere's poorest nation. (Photo by Richard PIERRIN / AFP) (Photo by RICHARD PIERRIN/AFP via Getty Images)

Haiti kidnappers place $17 million ransom on 17 missionaries

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FILE PHOTO - Military-aligned demonstrators gathered in numbers, chant Down with the government of hunger in front of the Presidential palace in Khartoum, Sudan, October 16, 2021. REUTERS-El Tayeb Siddig

Facebook shuts fake accounts in Sudan, as fight for public opinion rages online

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Economic expert enumerates positive moves to realise 2022 budget projections

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Nigerian government asks civil servants to take vaccine or present negative coronavirus result

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Nigerian government may expand access to coronavirus vaccination ahead of December deadline

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Anambra election: Police deploy 34,587 operatives for governorship poll

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A tank damaged during the fighting between Ethiopia's National Defense Force (ENDF) and Tigray Special Forces stands on the outskirts of Humera town in Ethiopia July 1, 2021. REUTERS-Stringer-File Photo-File Photo

Ethiopian attack in two northern regions intensifies – Tigrayan forces

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The US PC market has declined during the recent quarter, due to pandemic-related supply issues.

US PC market declines due to supply issues just as Windows 11 launches

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World Bank report: Low-income countries’ debt rises to $860 billion in 2020

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President Muhammadu Buhari has stressed the commitment of the federal government to attaining food security.

President Buhari approves N13.3 billion for take-off of community policing initiative

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Prosecutors failed to attend Tuesday’s hearing at the federal high court in Lagos, having previously failed to present some of their witnesses in a case that had been adjourned on several occasions.

Paris Club refund: Abia government, firm lose bid to stay proceedings

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Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences Secretary General Goran K. Hansson and members of the academy's Economic Sciences Prize Committee 2021 Peter Fredriksson and Eva Moerk announce the Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel 2021 as photographs of the winners David Card, Joshua Angrist and Guido Imbens are presented on a screen during a news conference at the academy, in Stockholm, Sweden, October 11, 2021. Claudio Bresciani/TT News Agency/via REUTERS ATTENTION EDITORS - THIS IMAGE WAS PROVIDED BY A THIRD PARTY. SWEDEN OUT. NO COMMERCIAL OR EDITORIAL SALES IN SWEDEN.

David Card, Joshua Angrist, Guido Imbens win 2021 Nobel Economics Prize

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Supreme Court judge, Justice Helen Ogunwumiju, has challenged law lecturers on the need to do more to improve the quality of judgments through constructive criticisms.

Supreme Court judge asks law lecturers to offer judges constructive criticism

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Austria's Chancellor Sebastian Kurz, who is under investigation on suspicion of corruption offences, leaves after giving a statement at the federal chancellery in Vienna, Austria October 9, 2021. REUTERS-Lisi Niesner

Austria’s ruling coalition soldiers on after fight to near-death

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Deontay Wilder was reportedly transported to the hospital for precautionary checks after being stopped in a devastating fashion by Tyson Fury after an 11th-round thriller at the MGM Grand, Las Vegas, United States of America.

Deontay Wilder lands in hospital after defeat by Tyson Fury

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