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Excitement greets airline’s launch of Lagos-London operations

Nigeria’s biggest airline has launched regular scheduled non-stop flights to London from Lagos. Air Peace’s inaugural flight on 31 March was greeted by Nigerians like an epochal event as the airline offers much lower fares compared to international carriers plying the same route. The London trip comes a month after the Nigerian flag carrier said it would commence direct flight …

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Why more investment is needed for climate science in Africa to save lives

Here’s a news release from the University of Leeds relating to research published in March 2024 in the journal ‘Nature’ which concludes that Africa needs long-term investment in scientific infrastructure and science careers to allow the continent to adapt to climate change and its effect on weather systems.The new research which was led by the University in partnership with the …

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Germany: Group accuses authorities of violating Black Ukrainian child’s human rights

The tubman.network e.V., an umbrella organisation of Black organisations in Germany dedicated to supporting people of African and Afro-diasporic origin who have fled Ukraine and other conflict-ridden regions, has issued a press release drawing attention to the fate of a Ukrainian child who is being denied vital medical care and also threatened with deportation to Nigeria. “This stands in contradiction …

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