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Somalia Premier Suspends Intelligence Chief

Somalia’s prime minister suspended the intelligence chief on Monday, prompting a public rebuke from the president and highlighting growing divisions at the heart of...

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Arms flown to Sudan from Ethiopia were legal, says ministry

Sudan’s interior ministry said on Monday that more than 70 boxes of weapons seized by authorities had turned out to be part of a...

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U.N. Footage From Northern Ethiopia Shows Humanitarian Crisis

Footage of war-hit northern Ethiopia published by the U.N. World Food Programme (WFP) on Monday reflected the severe humanitarian crisis there, after the United...

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Turkey And UAE Rein In Dispute That Fueled Conflict

A truce between bitter regional rivals Turkey and the United Arab Emirates has calmed tensions that fueled conflicts including Libya's war, after years of...

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Elderly Drug Suspects: Criminals, Couriers Or Victims Of Exploitation?

They are parents, grandparents, pensioners and members of communities who have spent decades building families and contributing to society. Yet, in recent months, some elderly Nigerians have found themselves at the centre of arrests linked to illegal drugs. The cases have raised difficult questions. Are elderly suspects knowingly...

OpenAI Scraps GPT-6.1 Astra Over AI Safety Failures

Saachi Jain, OpenAI's head of safety systems, said the model — which browses the web and operates applications autonomously — fell short on "staying within scope and authorisation and how it communicates back to the user about the type of work it's done." It is a rare...

Fuel at N435? Expert Says Production-Cost Pricing Could Halve Petrol Price

Petrol in Nigeria could sell for as low as N435 to N687 per litre if the country priced locally refined fuel by what it actually costs to produce — not by what it would cost to import. That is the argument of petroleum engineer and economist Prof. Izielen...