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Japan
Never send, never pay: NGO sounds alarm on sextortion scourge in Japan
Paps reported 2,200 consultations linked to sextortion as of November for the 2025 financial year, with most victims male and aged under 18.
7 Jan 2026 - 5:15PM
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US-China relations
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Will US interference in Hong Kong or Taiwan end? Don’t bet on it
4 Jan 2026 - 11:48AM
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Donald Trump
‘Peace President’ Trump embraces war: Maduro captured, Nigeria hit, Iran warned
4 Jan 2026 - 1:32AM
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Anthony Joshua
Driver in fatal Anthony Joshua car crash charged with dangerous driving
Adeniyi Mobolaji Kayode was driving the British boxer and 2 of his friends when their car crashed on Monday, killing Joshua’s friends.
3 Jan 2026 - 1:08AM
China-Africa relations
Washington lines up health deals as US and China vie for access to Africa
Signatories must guarantee that genetic sequence data and samples from potential outbreaks are shared with the US within 5 days of detection.
30 Dec 2025 - 4:07PM
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Donald Trump
Trump says he ordered Nigeria strike delay to ‘give a Christmas present’
‘They were going to do it earlier,’ Trump said of Thursday’s strike targeting Islamic State militants, adding ‘we hit them hard’.
27 Dec 2025 - 7:39AM
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Africa
US launches strike on Islamic State targets in Nigeria, Trump says
US strikes targeting militants were carried out in cooperation with the Nigerian government.
26 Dec 2025 - 4:39PM
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Africa
Nigeria says ‘spat’ with Trump over killing of Christians ‘largely resolved’
However, Nigeria remains on Washington’s list of countries of ‘particular concern’ regarding alleged religious freedom violations.
22 Dec 2025 - 10:45PM
Africa
Nigeria secures release of 130 children abducted from Catholic school
Presidential spokesman confirms ‘none left in captivity’ after an operation frees students taken by gunmen in November.
22 Dec 2025 - 2:14PM
China-Africa relations
Chinese workers return to Africa as lucrative job opportunities beckon
Large-scale, China-backed projects entice contract workers to take up posts in some African nations, while political instability keeps others away.
21 Dec 2025 - 8:00PM
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China-Africa relations
‘Concrete symbols’: China-built Ecowas HQ latest infrastructure gift to Africa
Beijing’s strategy to project influence through gifting prestigious presidential palaces and parliamentary buildings labelled ‘unique’.
13 Dec 2025 - 5:53PM
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China technology
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Why the Global South is embracing Chinese AI
The US champions AI as an autonomous agent, a content creator. China exports a vision of AI as a digital nervous system for the real economy.
10 Dec 2025 - 10:26AM
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Africa
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How China can help Africa build human capital
To truly harness their potential, countries across the continent seeking to industrialise must develop education and infrastructure in tandem.
9 Dec 2025 - 5:47PM
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Africa
Benin hunts leader behind short-lived coup that left casualties on both sides
Authorities in the west African country confirm arrests were made and hostages released, but apparent coup leader remained at large.
9 Dec 2025 - 3:47PM
China-Africa relations
Why Chinese firms are taking operational risks on African projects
Public-private partnerships or PPP model for African infrastructure tipped to grow as ‘bankable’ projects can attract global finance.
8 Dec 2025 - 12:00PM
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United Nations
Nigeria’s government secures release of 100 kidnapped schoolchildren
The fate of dozens of other pupils and staff remains unclear as the country buckles under a wave of mass abductions.
8 Dec 2025 - 2:33PM
Africa
Nigeria declares national emergency after mass kidnappings
Hundreds of people, mostly children, have been abducted in a week.
27 Nov 2025 - 12:58PM
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Dozens kidnapped from Catholic school in Nigeria escape captors
Hundreds of children and staff remain held by gunmen amid a spate of school attacks in the West African country.
24 Nov 2025 - 1:46PM
Africa
315 kidnapped in Nigeria school attacks as security crisis deepens
Gunmen attacked a school in Niger state on Friday after abducting 25 girls from a Kebbi state secondary school on Monday.
23 Nov 2025 - 10:22AM
Africa
Gunmen kidnap students from Nigerian Catholic school, second attack in a week
The attacks come weeks after US President Trump threatened military action over what he said were targeted killings of Nigeria’s Christians.
21 Nov 2025 - 6:33PM
Africa
1 girl escapes Nigeria mass abduction of 25 students from a high school
The student fled through a forest after gunmen attacked a high school dormitory.
18 Nov 2025 - 7:50PM
Africa
Gunmen kidnap 25 schoolgirls in Nigeria region grappling with banditry
The early morning raid came a decade after the Chibok abduction that sparked the global #BringBackOurGirls campaign.
18 Nov 2025 - 4:07PM
Africa
Trump’s threat of US military action clashes with Nigeria’s reality
Nigeria’s president denies his country is religiously intolerant after Trump claimed Christians are being killed in ‘large numbers’.
4 Nov 2025 - 4:32PM
Africa
Nigeria urges meeting with Trump after US president’s military action threat
Trump had said he was designating Nigeria a ‘country of particular concern’ because of worries about the safety of Christians there.
3 Nov 2025 - 1:25AM
Donald Trump
Trump threatens military action in Nigeria over ‘killing of Christians’
Nigeria’s leader Bola Ahmed earlier pushed back against the US president’s claim that his country’s Christians face an ‘existential threat’.
2 Nov 2025 - 10:56AM
Trade
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Africa is where Hong Kong’s ‘go global’ campaign should begin
The new GoGlobal Task Force should spur efforts to tap opportunities in emerging markets. Africa, where China already has a considerable presence, is a natural choice.
28 Oct 2025 - 11:16AM
Africa
World’s oldest president, 92, could extend rule as Cameroon heads to polls
Paul Biya, who spends most of his time in Europe, came to power in the Central African country in 1982 and has ruled since then.
12 Oct 2025 - 8:34PM
China-Africa relations
China’s ‘health silk road’ in Africa gets a boost with insulin, pharma projects
Move to manufacture insulin locally is set against forecast of nearly 55 million Type 2 diabetes cases in sub-Saharan Africa by 2045.
11 Oct 2025 - 2:00PM
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