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...Nigeria’s foreign minister Yusuf Tuggar told the FT in an interview last week that the sanctions on Niger would only be lifted if Bazoum and his allies were released....
...Mr Zakzaky and his wife, Zeenah Ibrahim, suffered multiple gunshot wounds....
...It is part of a trend of writing from a northern perspective, including Abubakar Adam Ibrahim’s The Whispering Trees, shortlisted for the Caine Prize for African Writing....
...The violence echoes a 2009 operation in which Muhammad Yusuf, former leader of Boko Haram, the Sunni militant group, was executed in police custody....
...One of them, Faid Ibrahim, a 26-year-old ethnic Somali, says they accuse him of being an Islamist jihadist. Then, he says, he bribes them to let him go....
...Writing in The New York Times, Huma Yusuf, a Pakistani columnist, identifies three main criticisms against Ms Yousafzai, who recently turned 16....
...Initiated by five poets (Daud Farah, Ahmed Ibrahim, Ali Goolyad, Hassan Panero and Ahmed Yusuf), De Gabay (meaning “poem or song”) rolled out over one day, bringing something of the community’s history and...
...“One country has stumbled and fallen,” says Ibrahim ag Yusuf, an academic and prominent peace activist from Mali, of the fall of the northern two-thirds of the country into the hands of a coalition of al-Qaeda...
...“The Tuareg have never truly been separatists but they have been frustrated by the incompetence of the state and a political class perceived as rotten and self-interested,” Ibrahim ag Yusuf, a prominent...
...Not long after Nigeria’s independence in 1960, Yusuf Maitama Sule, then a young minister, cast his eye over a report forecasting shifts in economic power....
...Protest banners on Wednesday told of the public’s disillusionment. “3 Enemies: politicians, terrorists, Dawood”, said one, referring to Mumbai underworld chief Dawood Ibrahim who is thought to be hiding...
...Judge PD Kode on Monday found Yakub, Essa, Yusuf and Rubina Memon guilty of conspiracy and abetting terror. They face jail terms ranging from a minimum of five years to life imprisonment....
...“A lot should have been done here, at least since independence,” says Yusuf Ibrahim Diab, an elder of Kibera’s Nubian community....
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