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West Africa

Activists warn over slavery as Mauritania joins U.N. human rights council

Biram Dah Abeid speaks at the 12th Geneva Summit for Human Rights and Democracy in Geneva, Switzerland, February 18, 2020. PHOTO BY REUTERS/UN Watch

By Nellie Peyton

26/02/2020

DAKAR (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Mauritania is backsliding in efforts to eliminate descent-based slavery, an activist and opposition member has warned, as the West African country joined the U.N. Human Rights Council for the first time this week.

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Niger police rescue 232 victims of sex trafficking, forced labour

Vehicles cross the Kennedy bridge at dusk in Niamey, September 16, 2013. PHOTO BY REUTERS/Joe Penney

By Nellie Peyton

26/02/2020

DAKAR (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Police in Niger have rescued 232 victims of sex trafficking and forced labour, including girls as young as 10, in a major operation in the capital Niamey, Interpol said on Wednesday.

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Togo president declares landslide election win, opponent slams 'masquerade'

President of Togo Faure Gnassingbe is seen during the ECOWAS Authority of Heads of State and Government 54th Ordinary Session in Abuja, Nigeria, December 22, 2018. PHOTO BY REUTERS/Afolabi Sotunde

By John Zodzi

25/02/2020

LOME (Reuters) - Togo President Faure Gnassingbe declared an electoral victory on Monday as official preliminary results showed him re-elected in a landslide, though an opposition candidate also claimed victory and called Monday's result a "masquerade".

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Togo's president seeks re-election to extend 50-year dynasty

Togo's President Faure Gnassingbe attends the summit of the Heads of state from the eight-nation West African Economic and Monetary Union (UEMOA) in Abidjan, Ivory Coast, July 12, 2019. PHOTO BY REUTERS/Luc Gnago

By John Zodzi and Anna Pujol-Mazzini

20/02/2020

LOME (Reuters) - Many people in Togo have only known just two presidents in their lifetime - Faure Gnassingbe, who is running for a fourth term in an election on Saturday, and his father Eyadema Gnassingbe - and some Togolese are sick of the long-running dynasty.

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Nigerian court issues warrant for oil minister Etete's in $1.3 billion oil deal

Former Nigerian Minister of Petroleum Resources Chief Dan Etete waves to journalists as he arrives at the Vienna OPEC headquarters. PHOTO BY REUTERS

31/01/2020

ABUJA (Reuters) - Lawyers representing former Nigerian oil minister Dan Etete told Reuters on Friday it was "incredible" that a court had issued a warrant for his arrest in relation to a $1.3 billion oil deal scandal nine years after it was struck.