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Authorities in Libya said on Sunday that they have found the site of a mass grave in Tripoli containing more than 1270 people believed to be the remains of the inmates killed by Moammar Gaddafi’s regime in a 1996 Abu Salim prison massacre. A military spokesman and member of a committee tasked with finding mass graves said they were confident ...

The Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development, Dr Adewumi Adesina, has said the Nigerian government is to assist 20 million farmers across the country with subsidized agricultural inputs, including fertilizer and improved seedlings, under its national agricultural transformation program. Speaking in Adamawa State, the minister said the project, which is commencing next year, would target five million farmers each year ...

Anti-terrorism police in Kenya have arrested three undercover British men on Thursday. The arrested men are Nick Cryne, 30, Niall Young, 34, and Ben Hope, 27. Police said the arrests came after officers spent 24 hours monitoring their movements. Head of Kenya’s Coast Province force, Ambrose Munyasia, said that the three had claimed to be tourists but were spotted “acting ...

A non-governmental peer pressure group, the Nigerian Youth Leadership Advocacy Group, NYLAG, last weekend, cautioned the Federal Government against using force to tackle the Boko Haram sect. Its National Coordinator, Mr Onyekachi Eze, NYLAG, signed a statement in Lagos, which states that the best option for resolving the Boko Haram issue was through dialogue. The statement reads, “We wish to ...