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7 Mar 2020
Today, one in three Egyptians live just above the poverty line. As a consequence, the rate of micro-credit lending has grown, with women the principle beneficiaries. Some 70 percent of loans in Egypt are given to women, but thousands of them fall victim to loan sharks and even end up in prison. FRANCE 24's Ruth Michaelson reports.
27 Sep 2019
Raped, arrested and jailed, Ayomide Idowu narrates his ordeal to GuardianTV. Idowu tells us how he was picked up by members of the Nigerian police force on a routine check somewhere in CMS. He further states how a higher court who revisited his case file after been sentenced by a previous court found him not guilty of any wrongdoing and acquitted.
29 Apr 2019
Jailed Senator Dariye co-sponsors a motion from prison.
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Around 300 inmates remained at large on Wednesday (July 6) after a suspected raid by Islamist Boko Haram militants on a prison in Nigeria's capital Abuja on Tuesday (July 5) night, an interior ministry official said.
Shuaib Belgore, permanent secretary at the interior ministry, told journalists outside the 900-inmate prison that a security officer was killed during the raid and three others were injured.
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A finished skeleton of a Gorgosaurus dinosaur that roamed the earth 77 million years ago will hit the auction block at Sotheby’s New York later this month.
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UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson has faced lawmakers' questions after two of the most-senior figures in his government resigned. The finance and health ministers said they could no longer tolerate the culture of scandal.
